Category: Health

National Assembly Vice Chairman Tran Thanh Man on Monday paid a working visit to the Ministry of Health, where he urged the sector to uphold the spirit of solidarity, unity, support, and encouragement to overcome all difficulties and work according to the 12 ethical principles and teachings of President Ho Chi Minh “a doctor is […]

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the emergency phase of the pandemic is not over, pointing to surging numbers of deaths and warning that the global response to the crisis “remains hobbled”.   The World Health Organization’s emergency committee on Covid-19 was meeting Friday to discuss whether the pandemic still merits the highest level of […]

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Friday visited and extended Lunar New Year’s greetings to officials, medical staff, and patients being treated at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in Ha Noi.Speaking at the program “Tet of love – Tet of sharing”, Prime Chi…

As the upcoming Lunar New Year will be a time for social gathering, food safety and COVID-19 preventive measures should be taken, the World Health Organisation in Vietnam said on Tuesday.WHO stressed the need for repeat COVID-19 vaccination and recomme…

Vietnamese doctors at the Level 2.4 field hospital in South Sudan successfully performed an emergency C-section on a pregnant woman on Monday.Doctors said the first baby girl born at the hospital weighed 3.5kg.Doctors and nurses of the field hospital w…

A safety monitoring system flagged that US drugmaker Pfizer and German partner BioNTech’s updated COVID-19 shot could be linked to a type of brain stroke in older adults, according to preliminary data analyzed by US health authorities. The US Centers f…

China’s health authority on Friday adjusted COVID-19 prevention and control measures, saying it aimed to optimize clinical categorization and treatment nearly a month after it scrapped a rigid zero-COVID policy.   The National Health Commission said it would add positive antigen tests as a diagnostic standard and adjust the criteria for discharging COVID patients from […]