Health & Education

The Vietnamese Society in Oxford (VOX)’s exchange called “Open Day 2014” took place at the University of Exeter.

March 3 witnessed a monumental breakthrough for the Vietnamese medical profession when doctors at 103 Hospital successfully carried out the first kidney-pancreas transplant operation.

Vietnamese high school students will have to take four subjects in order to graduate, a decision which some say will strike a death blow to the subject of history.

Doctors at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi successfully reattached the severed nose of a 37-year-old patient in a 13-hour long surgery.

Canada will host education exhibitions at Hanoi’s Melia Hotel on March 8 and HCM City’s Intercontinental Hotel on March 9, aiming to promote education opportunities in the country.

Doctors at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi successfully reattached the severed nose of a 37-year-old patient in a 13-hour long surgery.

Canada will host education exhibitions at Hanoi’s Melia Hotel on March 8 and HCM City’s Intercontinental Hotel on March 9, aiming to promote education opportunities in the country.

Facing a severe student shortage, many vocational training school classrooms equipped with expensive tools and machinery are going unused as enrollment remains stagnant.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called on the UK to share its experience in education and provide Vietnam with technical assistance.

Doctors at Ho Chi Minh City`s Children Hospital No.1 on February 27 successfully separated two conjoined infants in an operation that lasted an hour and a half.

The sight of young school-going gong players has become an everyday event in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) these days, due to efforts to include this performing art in school curriculums.

The Ministry of Education and Training is committed to increasing the quality of education by improving assessments of students’ knowledge and learning capacity, Deputy Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien has stated.

The Central Paediatrics Hospital on February 27 officially placed Vietnam’s first –ever robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery centre into operation with an estimated investment of VND100 billion.

The Ministry of Education and Training asked education departments nationwide to take measures stop the teaching of foreign languages at kindergartens.

The city has built a series of satellite clinics of key hospitals in various districts. In 2012, 17 central hospitals in the city were allowed to open 48 clinics within 12 local hospitals in districts and wards.

The forum ‘Viet Nam’s Healthcare: Integration and Development’ was held international organisations operating in this field in Viet Nam.

President Truong Tan Sang yesterday presented the title of People`s Doctor to 67 outstanding physicians at a ceremony to celebrate the 59th year of Viet Nam Physicians` Day.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) hosted a forum in Hanoi to call for international assistance in achieving millennium development goals for health.

Two years ago, 18 year old Phan Thi Muon from Thuan Phuoc Ward in Da Nang did not know how to read or write because her parents did not have enough money to send her to school.

Leading Vietnamese paediatrician Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem has impressed surgeons worldwide with his huge advancements in endoscopic surgery, applying techniques he invented himself.