The Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) have jointly issued Circular 16 stating that health insurance services will cover medical treatment during holidays starting September this year. According to the regulation,...
The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) under the Ministry of Health starting on July 30 will ban about 22,000 types of cosmetic products for containing five derivatives of Paraben that are suspected of causing breast cancer and male infertility....
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health is working on a draft decree aimed at improving regulations over immunization activities, a move deemed necessary in the wake of rising demand for better public healthcare, the government said on its website July 20. The...
The Department of Health of the mountainous Phuoc Loc Commune in the central province of Quang Nam has just confirmed the second positive case of diphtheria this week. The case was announced after the department received the results from three...
Vietnam has 31,000 drug users receiving methadone treatment, or only 15% of total drug addicts, leaving huge burdens on rehabilitation activities that cost the country hundreds of billions of dong per year. The treatment is carried out in 170...
A water pipeline in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi broke on July 21, the 11th incident since the first operation in 2008, disrupting the daily lives of more than 70,000 people in the districts of Hoang Mai, Thanh Xuan, North Tu Liem and South Tu...
The People's Committee of HCM City recently approved a VND4.37 trillion ($200 million)project to construct and manage a clean water supply system in the suburban Cu Chi district. The Saigon Water Infrastructure Corporation (Saigon Water) will manage...
Drought and salt water have swept through several districts in the southern Vietnamese province of Kien Giang, damaging around 2,000 hectares of rice farming areas and seriously affecting farmers’ lives. Nguyen Van Tam, director of the Department of...
Vietnam’s forests are increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, forest degradation, fragmentation and other stresses – making them more vulnerable to changing environmental conditions. To cope with the challenges posed by climate change...
Developing a national action plan for environmental health is crucial, heard a discussion in Hanoi on July 23 hosted by the Consultancy Central of Occupational Safety Health and Environmental Technology under the Ministry of Natural Resources and...
