• Failing to treat kidney failure

    Failing to treat kidney failure

    07/04/2009 05:00

    Kidney-failure patients receive treatment at the Hanoi Department of Health’s Center for Nephrology and Hemodialysis. With renal failure afflicting well over five million people in Vietnam, the cost of...

  • Hemophiliac baby saved as doctor, medical student donate blood

    06/04/2009 05:00

    A one-year-old boy was saved after a doctor and a medical student donated blood for the baby’s operation, Hue city Central Hospital said Monday. The operation on Nguyen Quang Loc Tai, who has O+ blood, was urgent and the hospital had run...

  • Virility wish kills chameleons

    Virility wish kills chameleons

    06/04/2009 05:00

    A collection of geckos caught in the wild on sale in An Giang Province. Chameleons are making big money for hunters and breeders in the Mekong Delta provinces of Kien Giang and An Giang....

  • Reliance on opticians a shortsighted move

    Reliance on opticians a shortsighted move

    06/04/2009 05:00

    A woman has her vision tested at Binh Thanh District Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Most opticians in the country are unqualified to sell medical glasses and prescribe glasses for shortsightedness or...

  • City legislators want ban on hospital expansion withdrawn

    City legislators want ban on hospital expansion withdrawn

    06/04/2009 05:00

    A common sense at any hospital in HCMC: the beds are overloaded and patients have to rest outside The municipal administration should rethink its ban on rebuilding or expansion of new facilities in hospitals...

  • Street barriers a death risk during medical emergencies

    Street barriers a death risk during medical emergencies

    05/04/2009 05:00

    An ambulance is surrounded by vehicles at a roundabout in District 1. An ambulance driver in Ho Chi Minh City feels guilty about the death of a patient in District 12 who died before he reached the house....

  • Infants doing well after heart surgeries

    05/04/2009 05:00

    The Hue city Central Hospital in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has successfully operated on two infants with congenital heart disease, its Director Dr. Bui Duc Phu said Sunday. When Tran Thi Bao Ngan from Thua Thien-Hue was...

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