Hanoi works on cleanup, disease prevention after Typhoon Yagi
The city's medical units advice the community on the use of clean water, food safety, and environmental hygiene.
20:27, 2024/09/20
Health Ministry intensifies inspections of cosmetic sales on e-commerce
As ads for fake beauty products proliferate on social media, Vietnam's Ministry of Health is taking action to protect consumers and crack down on online counterfeit cosmetics.
12:27, 2024/09/07
Hanoi schools closed due to super typhoon Yagi
All students are advised to stay indoors this Saturday due to the large radius of the super typhoon's path.
22:18, 2024/08/28
Hanoi leads the country in student number
The number of school-age children in the capital city is growing faster and faster.
15:03, 2019/02/14
Spring Book Festival 2019 in Hanoi to feature 300,000 books
The event is aimed at honoring the cultural values and tradition of reading by showcasing meaningful and interesting materials for book lovers and providing opportunities for publishers to introduce new books directly to readers.
14:54, 2019/02/13
Vietnam to apply electronic health records from March 1
The electronic health records store the content of the paper health file and the digital signature of person who enters the data.
18:42, 2019/02/05
Caring for elderly remains big challenge for Vietnam
Vietnam’s population is greying as the percentage of over 60s is set to jump to 21% of the population in 2040, up from 12% today.
13:25, 2019/02/03
Hanoi leads the country in number of national excellent students
Hanoi Amsterdam Gifted High School has 84 excellent students with 11 first prizes.
15:32, 2019/01/25
Over 70% of Hanoi’s pupils join school milk project
Director of Hanoi Department of Education and Training Chu Xuan Dung highly valued the participation of Hanoi’s localities and schools in actively implementing the school milk project.
16:58, 2019/01/24
Vietnam ministries move to ensure security in hospitals amid rising violence
In cases of threats against medical staff, patients and relatives of patients, medical facilities should report the assaults to police via hotline 113 and the hotline of local police.
16:50, 2019/01/23
Vietnam spends 5.8% of GDP on education
The Vietnamese government has also approved 530 joint training programs between local and foreign universities.
13:07, 2019/01/17
Made-in-Vietnam flu vaccines licensed for commercial use
The successful production of the seasonal influenza vaccine is significant because Vietnam is a country with a high number of people with influenza each year.
16:01, 2019/01/10
Over 300,000 foreigners seek medical treatment in Vietnam in 2018
Many foreign patients chose Vietnam for their treatment because of good quality service and low cost.
14:57, 2018/12/31
Vietnam’s health sector names nine outstanding events in 2018
For the first time, Vietnamese experts successfully performed lung transplantation and simultaneously took six organs from a brain-dead donor for five patients on December 12 in Vietnam-Germany Hospital.
15:49, 2018/12/25
Vietnamese doctors successfully perform simultaneous organ transplants
This is the first time Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital has performed a lung transplant technique from brain-dead donor and it is also the first time that Vietnam has implemented six complicated organs simultaneously.
22:56, 2018/12/19
Hospital quality needs to be measured by patients’ satisfaction
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam encouraged healthcare staffs together with the people through information technology tools to contribute to improving hospital quality.
22:56, 2018/12/19
Vietnam to launch 5-in-1 ComBE Five vaccine nationwide late December
ComBE Five is a “five-in-one” vaccine that can help fight against five potentially fatal diseases affecting infants - diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B.
14:03, 2018/12/18
Hanoi’s medical center earns greater prestige with high-tech services
The Hanoi High-tech & Digestive Center is the first of its kind in Hanoi meeting European standards.
15:00, 2018/12/14
Hanoi hosts Asia-Europe conference on life-long learning
Vice President of the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education Phil Hanil Ulf-Daniel Ehlers said that the 2030 agenda for sustainable development targets prosperity in the two global economic and social dimensions.
17:35, 2018/12/13
Vietnam and US enhance cooperation in infection prevention
Vietnam became the 15th country in the world to receive the US government’s assistance in the fight against HV/AIDS through PEPFAR in 2004.
16:51, 2018/12/12
Liver cancer is the most common cancer in Vietnam
Liver cancer in Vietnam is increasing rapidly and mortality is high due to shortage of hepatitis B vaccination.
12:01, 2018/12/06
Vietnam favors educational cooperation with US
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highly valued Prof. Vallely’s efforts and contributions to promoting education cooperation between Vietnam and the US.
13:35, 2018/12/02
More than thousand join 2018 Hanoi Run for Children
This is the annual event to raise treatment funds for disadvantaged children with cancer and congenital heart diseases.
11:04, 2018/11/30
Vietnam applies South Korean traditional medicine in chronic disease treatment
In recent years, the Institute of Oriental Medicine of South Korea has cooperated with the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine Hospital to carry out joint researches.