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Human resources remain decisive, as no matter how advanced equipment becomes, it is doctors who directly deliver care and sustain patients’ confidence, said Party General Secretary To Lam.

30 years on since the first kidney transplants were performed in 1992, Cho Ray Hospital has so far successfully conducted a total of 1,127 cases, helping to improve the lives of thousands of people.

 As Vietnam battles against the fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic lingering since late April, much of the country's resources have been streamlined to treat the infected people, limit transmissions and accelerate the national vaccination campaign.

Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Son, Deputy Minister of Public Security and Head of the Ministry of Public Security’s Steering Committee for Pandemic Prevention and Control, chaired a meeting on December 16 with public security logistics and health sectors to discuss measures to take care of the health of public security officers and soldiers and treat COVID-19 patients in the new situation.

Information regarding vaccine donations for Vietnam and accelerated vaccinations in many major cities demonstrates the tireless efforts of Party and State leaders to promote vaccine diplomacy, along with the valuable support of international friends for the nation’s COVID-19 fight.

A 33-year-old woman in Binh Phuoc delivered a baby boy weighing 5.2 kg.

The Sub-committees for Health and Security, and Sub-security for Security and Safety serving the second National Congress of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities, held their second meeting to roll out their key tasks.

PSNews - On the occasion of its 30th founding anniversary, the Military Industry - Telecommunication Group (Viettel) will launch artificial intelligence (AI) products later in Q2 of 2019 to help solve issues of health and agriculture.

PSNews – Various parents from many localities brought their children to Viet Duc Hospital on May 18 for free screening checks for urinary and genital malformations.

The northern mountainous province of Lai Chau announced its first African swine fever (ASF) outbreak on March 19, raising the total number of disease-hit localities nationwide to 20.

Quality health care services at the public Binh Dan Hospital in HCM City’s District 3 is now being offered to people in the LGBT community. 

The health sector aims to have over 95 percent of under-one-year-old children nationwide fully vaccinated in the expanded national immunization programme by 2020, heard a conference in Hanoi on January 7.

Mental health issues are widespread and increasing in Vietnam, particularly among young people, experts said.

Vietnam’s Health Ministry and the Fund for the Prevention of Tobacco Harms on June 26 held a meeting of the tobacco control working group, gathering representatives from key tobacco control organisations in Vietnam and its development partners.

The death toll from smoking-related diseases in Vietnam has amounted to 40,000 per year, according to statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO).

The Hue Central Hospital has attached much importance to its cooperation with the health sector of Lao border provinces, said vice director of the hospital Hoang Thi Lan Huong.

PSNews – The first lung transplant from a brain-dead donor has ever been conducted successfully in Vietnam.

More than 2,500 poor people in the central province of Quang Tri on March 12 received free medical checkups, medicine and gifts from the Project Vietnam Foundation organisation of the American Academy of Paediatrics.

Ho Chi Minh City has set a target of having 18 doctors and 42 hospital beds per 10,000 residents in 2018 so as to increase the quality of health check-ups and treatment.

Mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia – a type of bacteria with the potential to prevent the spread of dengue fever –were released in Vinh Luong commune in the central province of Khanh Hoa’s Nha Trang city on March 6.