Health

Vietnam PM orders probe of questionable epilepsy surgeries
15/10/2009 05:00
The Prime Minister has ordered an investigation into a central hospitalâs brain surgery unit after local media reported that epilepsy surgery there was leaving people paralyzed and with brain damage. The results of the investigation by...
Tons of dirty meat imports held up in HCMC
15/10/2009 05:00
Firms that imported hundreds of tons of substandard meat products this summer have yet to get rid of the goods and authorities still havenât confirmed whether or not some of the meat was sold in Vietnam....
No shortage of Tamiflu, but other diseases ignored
14/10/2009 05:00
Although H1N1 is spreading widely in Vietnam, the country has abundant stock of the antiviral drug Tamiflu, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry told a meeting that...
Swine flu cases pass 10,000 in Vietnam
11/10/2009 05:00
Children wear protective masks at a kindergarten in Hanoi in August As of Sunday, Vietnam had recorded 10,021 cases of influenza A (H1N1) and 23 related deaths, the Ministry of Health reported that day....
Vietnam swine flu death toll rises to 22
09/10/2009 05:00
Two more people have died of the influenza A H1N1 virus, bringing Vietnamâs death toll from the swine flu to 22, the Ministry of Health announced Friday. One of them was a...
Campaign launched to cut Vietnamâs infant mortality
08/10/2009 05:00
A nurse takes care of a newborn baby at Tu Du hospital in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 1 Around 65-70 infants die every day in Vietnam, according to a US NGO promoting a new campaign to reduce the number....
Hospitals overcrowded by hand-foot-mouth, respiratory disease
08/10/2009 05:00
The Respiratory Department at Childrenâs Hospital No.1 is so crowded that mothers have to care for their children in the corridor. Hand, foot and mouth has been more severe this year and is flooding...