Health & Education

The Ministry of Transport`s Vietnam Aviation Academy and D`viation Solutions, a subsidiary of Malaysia`s D`viation Group signed an agreement for a comprehensive strategic partnership to enhance aviation education and training in Vietnam.

This was confirmed by the Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at the Steering Committee for Zika virus prevention that was held on March 30.

More than 200 doctors and cancer specialists participated in a scientific conference in Hanoi to update their knowledge about new methods of treating breast cancer.

A workshop was held on March 23 in Hanoi to promote bilateral cooperation and exchanges of health care products and technologies between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

On the evening of March 23, the Ministry of Health has informed the press about the case of an Australian man who has been identified Zika virus infection in S outheast Asian nationafter 10 days to return home.

Doctors at the cardiac surgery ward in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital have begun using a less invasive surgical technique to treat patients with aortic disease.

A workshop on improving access to eye care services for people with disabilities took place in Hanoi.

On March 20, information from the General Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health), through more than 200 tests on multiple samples provinces and key to conduct tests to detect cases of Zika virus suggests, the results were negative.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued an instruction on stronger measures to reduce overload in hospitals and expand the satellite hospital system.

According to the statistics of the Health Ministry, in the first 10 months of 2015, medicine cost of each Vietnamese was nearly 38 USD, rising by 10% from the previous year and almost doubling the 2009 figure.

Hanoi is struggling to set aside 36 billion VND (1.61 million USD) to expand methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) availability among heroin addicts in the city, said Le Nhan Tuan, Director of the municipal Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control.

Speaking at a conference of the Vietnam National Committee on Ageing in Hanoi on March 15, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam required relevant ministries and agencies to implement measures to raise health and social insurance coverage for the elderly to the country’s average.

On March 14, Center for Preventive Medicine in Hanoi has released a statement on the latest vaccine deployment plan for "5 in 1" Pentaxim.

The Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health), the World Health Organization (WHO) has convened a meeting on Zika viral diseases and the increase in cases of abnormal nervous system economic and deformities in the newborns.

The International Kangaroo Math Contest (IKMC) targeting children aged from 6-12 will take place on March 20 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for the first time.

The screaming, the laughing squealing suddenly, the shadow of the people going back and forth inanimately is what made me scarred when entering the premises of Hanoi Psychiatric Hospital.

The Ministry of Health and the HCM city People’s Committee on March 5 launched a campaign to prevent Zika-virus related diseases and dengue.

The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) have agreed on the teaching of the Japanese language in Vietnam’s primary and secondary schools.

On February 28, the Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health said that according to the report from the quarantine unit at the international border, since April 12, 2015, Vietnam has recorded no case of Zika virus infection.

On February 25, Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan made a speech at the ceremony at Hanoi Medical University to mark Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27). She stressed that caring for public health is a prioritised task and objective of the Party, the entire political system and each family.