Health & Education

​The Hanoi Department of Health in coordination with Helen Keller International (HKI) will provide eye check-ups for some 10,000 people aged 45 or more in the capital city’s Quoc Oai district from now to September 2015.

The doctors of Bach Mai hospital has reccently provided free health check-ups, and medicines for people in Lang Chanh and Thuong Xuan districts, Thanh Hoa province, as part of the coordination program on providing free healthcare in the 2014-2017 period.

​The German development cooperation agency GIZ will continue helping Vietnam improve its hospital management with the use of advanced technologies, GIZ Programme Director Anna Frisch said.

More than 700 Vietnamese and international experts assembled in Hanoi for the 24th Annual Congress of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia (ATCSA 2014) from November 5-8.

According to a research team at University of Salford (UK), an extract of peppermint’s leaves can cure cancer by destroying blood vessels supplying tumors

Municipal health authorities recently closed down about 110 of the clinics after inspections revealed many medical violations.

Due to the rainy season lasting from August to the end of October, the number of patients contracting the mosquito-born disease rising to 3,000 in the first 9 months of this year

A ceremony was held on November 3 in Hanoi to honour students, who won medals at International Olympiads and recorded highest results at 2014 university entrance exams.

As part of the national campaign to provide the combined measles-rubella vaccine, more than 150,000 children aged 10 to 14 in HCM City have received shots, according to Dr Nguyen Tri Dung, head of the city`s Preventive Health Centre.

Helen Keller International (HKI) – in coordination with the Hanoi Department of Health (DoH) is implementing an eye care project for old people in Quoc Oai district from now to the end of 2015.

​Despite a Ministry of Education and Training ban on after-school classes, many students and parents take no notice. Some even use the classes as child minding centres while they are still at work.

​A dengue vaccination trial conducted by France’s Sanofi Pasteur in five Asian countries, including Vietnam, showed the efficacy in 56.5 percent of dengue-infected cases.

​One million poor and disadvantaged residents of the country`s remote, border and island areas will receive free health services under a humanitarian community health care campaign launched here yesterday.

President Truong Tan Sang met with 78 outstanding ethnic minority students on Saturday during a ceremony honoring their achievements in the past academic year.

​The US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a programme to stimulate a market for HIV-related goods and services with the involvement of the private sector in Ho Chi Minh City on October 31.

​National Assembly deputies yesterday said appropriate measures were needed to help the economy regain high growth.

A ceremony to honour 50 elite Vietnamese students who recorded high results in their academic studies and have won international prizes has been scheduled for November 3 in Hanoi.

Around 42 workers at the Thinh Phat Ocean Import-Export Joint Stock Company in Bac Giang were hospitalised on October 29 for food poisoning.

Zuni.vn has been upgraded to be Vietnam’s first open interactive online education gate, according to the VNG Joint Stock Company on October 29.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), in an effort to ease excessive amount of homework for students, has prohibited teachers to hold after-school classes. But many instructors have ignored the ban.