Health & Education

On May 17, Vice Director of the municipal Health Department Hoang Duc Hanh said at the press briefing by the municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department organized that Hanoi announced hotlines to receive food safety-related feedback.

The Ministry of Health in coordination with Minsitry of Educaiton and Training, Viet Nam Unilever Foundation yesterday launched the handwashing campaign themed “10 million clean hands” in the presence of senior officials and thousands of students, teachers in Ba Dinh District.

News from the Ministry of Health, since June, some of the new vaccines will be included the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation for free.

The number of cervical cancer cases in Vietnam has fallen by half in the last 30 years thanks to a nationwide network of health facilities providing gynaecology screening, according to Professor Nguyen Chan Hung, Chairman of the Vietnam Cancer Association.

Entitled “Japanese Language Learning Taking Root in Vietnam” an article about a pilot project to offer Japanese lessons at three elementary schools in Hanoi was published on May 8 by Japan Today- an online newspaper based in Tokyo.

On May 4, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception for Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hiroshi Hase of Japan in Hanoi.

News from the Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health), the Bureau held a meeting of the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) to enhance information sharing and risk assessment by Zika epidemic in Vietnam in the coming time.

The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health said on April 26 that at present Vietnam is free of Zika virus cases.

Hanoi have agreed a programme to develop safe agricultural product consumption from 2016-2020. The City`s officials have urged consumers to buy products with clear origin sold at clean and hygienic trading places to ensure food safety.

During the Food Safety Action Month taking place in all provinces and cities nationwide since the middle of April, the Hanoi authorities will tighten food safety management and inspection.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and her counterparts from Japan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Thailand attended the Meeting of Asia Health Ministers on Antimicrobial Resistance in Tokyo, Japan on April 16.

On April 14, a workshop was organised by the US Consulate General in HCM City, the Defence Ministry’s Military Hospital 175, and the municipal Department of Health on medical cooperation.

On April 13, the delegation of the Health Ministry led by the Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Long had a working session with Hanoi People`s Committee on piloting the food safety inspection in 5 districts and 10 communes in the city.

The Government will provide all necessary support for the establishment of Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) which is due to open during the visit of US President Barack Obama to Vietnam in May this year .

The health sector has called for action to halt the rise of diabetes and improve care for people suffering from the disease at a workshop held in Hanoi on April 7.

City`s Vice Chairwoman Ngo Van Quy emphasized that Hanoi will continue into the more aggressive prevention on Zika virus intrusion.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has reassured "people should not be too confused" about Zika virus.

Right from the warning level of Zika virus level 1, Hanoi`s Health Department has been actively planning to build three specific situations to deal with the epidemic.

FrieslandCampina Vietnam`s Dutch Lady brand of dairy products has begun a charity campaign to build a school for disadvantaged students in the south-central province of Binh Thuan.

Earlier, Hanoi Department of Health actively has set 3 scenarios to prevent Zika virus after the Ministry of Health raised the Zika virus emergency level to 1.