Health & Education

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.

Many foreign patients chose Vietnam for their treatment because of good quality service and low cost.

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.

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.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam encouraged healthcare staffs together with the people through information technology tools to contribute to improving hospital quality.

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.

The Hanoi High-tech & Digestive Center is the first of its kind in Hanoi meeting European standards.

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.

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.

Liver cancer in Vietnam is increasing rapidly and mortality is high due to shortage of hepatitis B vaccination.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highly valued Prof. Vallely’s efforts and contributions to promoting education cooperation between Vietnam and the US.

This is the annual event to raise treatment funds for disadvantaged children with cancer and congenital heart diseases.

In recent years, the Institute of Oriental Medicine of South Korea has cooperated with the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine Hospital to carry out joint researches.

It is expected that more than 1,900 children under six months who are not breastfed in Hanoi will be provided with vitamin A.

Vietnam has sent 36 students from both primary and secondary schools in Hanoi`s Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, and Cau Giay districts to the World Mathematics Team Competition 2018 (WMTC 2018).

Dr. Shin Young-soo has provided support and consultations to the Ministry of Health to build reform policies for Vietnam’s healthcare system.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has made efforts to review and amend investment incentive policies and crafted a specific mechanism to encourage the operations of non-profit foreign-invested training units.

Up to 90% of Vietnamese students abroad pay full-fee for their studies even in the world’s most expensive countries.

When social insurance paid for HIV testing services, viral load, medical examination, HIV/AIDS patients with health insurance has increased.

Vietnam is facing the burden of non-communicable diseases, mainly cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer.