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The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) under the Ministry of Health has requested the recall of a batch of Temozolomide Ribosepharm 100 mg used to treat certain types of brain cancer due to the lack of Vietnamese-language instructions, local media reported.

This batch was manufactured on August 17, 2022, with an expiry date of August 31, 2025. The drug is produced by Germany’s Haupt Pharma Amareg GmbH and imported by Nam Linh Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals Company Limited in Ho Chi Minh City.

The batch of drugs violated regulations at level 3, said DAV Deputy Director Ta Manh Hung.

Nearly 2,600 fetuses with abnormalities were detected and intervened timely by doctors in southern hospitals in 2023, helping them avoid the risk of disabilities in 2023, an official said.

Associate Professor Dr. Tran Ngoc Hai, director of Ho Chi Minh City-based Tu Du Hospital, spoke at the Vietnam-France-Asia Pacific Obstetrics Conference on May 9.

He stated that enhancing the quality of fetal care is the foundation for improving the population's quality. In recent years, the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities and early intervention have been a focus of development in hospitals. Many congenital abnormalities are detected very early, even within the first three months of pregnancy.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has supplemented regulations on the roadmap for allocating greenhouse gas emission quotas in the draft decree and draft circular related to greenhouse gas emission reduction and ozone layer protection, local media said.

The ministry noted that it is necessary to strengthen the greenhouse gas inventory to support quota allocation to a number of specific subjects.

Accordingly, thermal power, steel, and cement sectors will have their greenhouse gases inventoried in a new and more detailed form. Around 200 establishments in the three fields are expected to be allocated quotas in the 2025-2026 period.

Associate Professor Hoang Ngoc Vinh, former director of the Department of Vocational Training, under the Ministry of Education and Training, has pointed out three reasons leading to the loopholes in university accreditation in Vietnam, the local Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported.

The first reason is the shortage of specific standards for professional and highly applied fields such as engineering and technology, medicine, education, and law.

The second reason is that accreditation reviewers are trained and certified with general knowledge and skills, making them very difficult to evaluate a specific program at a deep professional level.