Health & Education

French Professor delegation will support Hanoi Healthcare Department to train medical staff in the field of endoscopy, laparoscopy.

A blood donation campaign called “Red Sunday” has been launched nationwide and its management board is aiming for a collection of between 18,000 and 20,000 blood units.

Vietnamese children aged 7-14 chose the profession of doctor as their top career choice in the annual children`s career survey conducted by Adecco Viet Nam, a subsidiary of one of the world`s largest human resources companies.

Vietnam has launched the country’s first official human milk bank at a hospital in Danang, using donations from women giving birth there.

Literacy in Vietnam has reached 97.3 percent for those aged 15-50 under the Learning Society Programme, the Ministry of Education and Training said on January 13.

On January 11, the Food Safety Department has received information relating to 4 lots of Vietnamese disposable chopsticks exported to Taiwan at the request dated on January 8, 2016 by the Food Safety Department.

Singapore affirmed that Agent Orange is not the cause to make Vietnam`s sweet potatoes turn green.

Hospital rankings will be publicised for the first time this year in an effort by the Ministry of Health to improve healthcare services, the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has recently cut the ribbons to inaugurate two medical establishments in Hanoi.

The first 30 Vietnamese students to receive New Zealand Scholarships for 2016 to study at top institutions on the Pacific Ocean island have been unveiled by Ambassador to Vietnam Haike Manning.

Construction began on a Vietnam-funded hospital in Laos’ northern province of Houaphan on January 3.

The national education channel-VTV7 will officially go on air on the first day of 2016, Vietnam National Television’s Deputy General Director Pham Viet Tien said.

Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) and Toyota Viet Nam Foundation (TVF) on December 29 granted scholarships worth VND510 million (about US$23,000) for 85 students of music in Viet Nam.

A high school in HCM City has tried organising exam in an open-air playground to prevent cheating.

Forty-five vocational schools around the country will pilot a programme to teach international curricula in 34 vocations to improve the quality of human resources.

The ASEAN Economic Community will be officially established at the end of this month. Pursuant to signed agreements, ASEAN member countries will accept each other’s qualifications.

At a meeting of the Medicine Management Department held in Hanoi on December 25, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said, twenty factories producing medicine from herbal substances met the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) regulations set by the World Health Organisation in 2015.

The health department in Hanoi has directed medical centers across the capital to improve basic healthcare services.

According to statistics of Ministry of Education and Training, under the project on education development for ethnic minority groups, about 13,655 children and students benefited from preferential policies with total assistance of over 110 billion VND.

The Ministry of Health recently issued a public warning regarding the so-called imported vaccine, whose origin and quality it was not able to verify.