• Hospitals face uphill battle against cancer

    Hospitals face uphill battle against cancer

    14/10/2008 05:00

    Patients await examinations at the HCMC Oncology Hospital. Across the country, cancer patients face crowded hospitals and long waiting lists for treatment. Pollution and changing lifestyles are being blamed for...

  • What’s your poison?

    What’s your poison?

    13/10/2008 05:00

    Nguyen Hung Phan, 44, is treated at HCMC’s Gia Dinh People’s Hospital on Friday. Phan suffered permanent brain damage after drinking poisonous methanol. A probe into drinking deaths finds a thriving spurious...

  • Southern doctors confident stabbed teenager will recover

    13/10/2008 05:00

    A 17-year-old boy with multiple injuries to his internal organs is recovering after being stabbed, doctors at Ho Chi Minh City’s People’s Hospital No.115 said on Sunday. Pham The Anh was admitted to the hospital four days ago in critical...

  • Hanoi aims to be Vietnam’s first ‘City Without Smoke’

    Hanoi aims to be Vietnam’s first ‘City Without Smoke’

    13/10/2008 05:00

    A smoking ban in Hanoi’s state offices, public places and public transportation will begin next April, according to a plan recently approved by city administrators. The City...

  • Woman Ok after 3.5kg tumor removed, says hospital

    13/10/2008 05:00

    A woman who had a 3.5 kilogram uterine fibroma removed has been discharged from a local hospital in central Quang Ngai province, according to the hospital. Fifty-one-year-old Huynh Thi Bon was hospitalized several days ago with bleeding and...

  • Hospital staff reprimanded for abandoning patient

    12/10/2008 05:00

    The Health Department in the northern province of Hai Duong has directed a local psychiatric hospital to impose stiff penalties on two staff members for allegedly abandoning a patient two weeks ago. Earlier this month, orderly Hoang Dinh...

  • One suicide every 28 hours: hospital report

    One suicide every 28 hours: hospital report

    10/10/2008 05:00

    A doctor at Trung Vuong Hospital in HCMC checks on a man who drank pesticide after an argument with his girlfriend. Doctors say Ho Chi Minh City needs to work hard to curb increasing suicide rates....

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