Health & Education

The nation has to date recorded over 7,000 cases of measles this year, one third of which is in Hanoi, said Director of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases Nguyen Van Kinh at a meeting in Hanoi on April 16 to review the outbreak.

Vietnam should give top priority to dealing with malnutrition among children – the country’s future, experts advised at a seminar in the central city of Da Nang on April 16.

Improving the standard of qualifications is essential in the education transformation process, a conference in Hanoi heard on April 15.

​Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged ministries, agencies and localities to take new measures to the spread of measles and minimise fatalities of children, controlling the outbreak of this disease on April 16.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the health sector to ensure the sufficiency of medicine and equipment for the treatment of measles patients.

In May, Ho Chi Minh City will become the first city in the country to set up a council to supervise patient satisfaction and collect treatment data.

Vietnam has 200,000 people suffer from stroke annually, 11,000 of them died of the disease and the remaining have sequela, according to the Vietnam Stroke Association.

Vietnam reported no bird flu outbreaks during the weeks since April 2, with the five provinces to have previously suffered scares experiencing no new cases, the National Steering Committee on Bird Flu Prevention and Control said on April 15.

​More than 200 domestic and foreign ophthalmologists are attending a symposium on ophthalmology in the central Thua Thien-Hue province’s Hue Central Hospital from April 14-17.

As many as 1,500 doctors nationwide are benefiting from an international diabetes training programme which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on April 14.

The Asia-Pacific Research and training network forum on mental health opened in Hanoi on April 14, attended by 45 delegates from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Laos, Thailand and China.

Hue Science Festival 2014 with the theme "Medical achievements towards community health" takes place from April 11-17 with the partcipation of Scientists, doctors and specialists from around the world.

The FPT University will cooperate with Myanmar’s Victoria University College in a plan to open Victoria-FPT University in Yangon this year, the Saigon Times Daily reported.

​A cyber meeting to discuss the increase of measles cases was held on April 8 by the Ministry of Health, the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) and concerned agencies.

Health insurance currently covers nearly 1.3 million people in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, about 70 percent of the population.

Nearly 1,000 dermatological experts and scientists from France, Canada, the US, Australia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, India, the Republic of Korea and ASEAN member nations gathered at the 21st Regional Conference of Dermatology, held in the central city of Da Nang on April 10.

A collection of 15 books featuring the Dien Bien Phu victory (May 7, 1954) has been released by the People’s Army Publishing House in Hanoi.

​The head of Viet Nam`s General Department of Preventive Medicine, Tran Dac Phu, announced on Tuesday that the department would work to contain the outbreak of measles over the coming months.

​Eight Vietnamese students will compete at the 15th Asian Physics Olympiad 2014 (AphO) in Singapore from May 11-15, according to the Department for Testing and Education Quality Accreditation under Ministry of Education and Training.

Measles has spread quickly across the country and claimed 25 lives in the north since November 2013, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).