Health & Education

Many cultural activities of book festival will take place from April 20-26 at the National Library of Vietnam, 31 Trang Thi Street in Hanoi.

Ministry of Education and Training together with Vietnamese Union of Scientific and Technical, Central Association of Vietnamese students, University Pham Van Dong held inauguration of the 22th National Student Math Olympic competition.

The Russian government will provide university scholarships for 70 Vietnamese students pursuing an atomic energy course in 2014, announced the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital and Operation Smile Vietnam organisation will give free medical checks and surgery to children suffer from cleft lips and cleft palates from April 15-18 at 37 Hai Ba Trung street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi.

Inclusive education is the best solution to help disabled children maximise their abilities, experts and psychological lecturers said at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on April 4.

In order to solve the issue of overcrowding in hospitals in Hanoi, the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment proposed a temporary medical wards for patients with measles

As Viet Nam observes the National Voluntary Blood Donation Day today, major localities have reported a surge in donations this year, citing successful awareness raising campaigns.

Ho Chi Minh City authorities have set a target of curbing the rate of people living with HIV to under 1 percent by 2015 and maintaining this for the following years.

The health ministry has urged all cities and provinces nationwide to strengthen prevention measures against measles, particularly vaccinations for children between 9 and 24 months old.

The fifth annual meeting of the Cervical Spine Research Society – Asia-Pacific section (CSRS-AP) opened in Ho Chi Minh City on April 4, with the participation of nearly 300 experts from 20 countries across the world.

President Truong Tan Sang on April 3 inspected the progress of the Vietnam-Japan University project in the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park in the west of Hanoi.

Bird flu has been temporarily contained, with no new hotbeds of the disease detected in the country for the past two weeks, heard a press conference in Hanoi on April 1.

Nearly 21,000 people suffering from schizophrenia and epilepsy across the country have been detected and received treatment in 2013.

A Vietnamese woman in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has been found carrying a calcified fetus known as lithopedion for decades without realizing it, according to local doctors.

A special “Storytelling train” event was held in the central city of Da Nang on April 2 with the aim of instilling Vietnamese children with a love of reading and encouraging them to enhance their language acquisition.

The National Political Publishing House has released a UNESCO book honouring late President Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam’s national liberation hero.

The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi and the Lao capital of Vientiane have outlined an educational cooperation programme in the coming years, including increasing visit exchanges to share experience in teaching and management.

Many patients suffer from organ shortage because few people agreed to donate their much-needed transplants.

Health Minister explains cause of sector’s deficiency Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has pointed out primary objective and subjective reasons behind the deficiency of the health sector, underlining limitations of health workers and the overloading of hospitals.

Five Korean universities and the BS Financial Group have committed to granting scholarships to 10 Vietnamese students annually, funding their higher education pursuits in the Republic of Korea.