VietNamNet Bridge - Medical vocational schools (2-year training) must upgrade into junior colleges (3-year training) or be dissolved under a new Ministry of Health (MOH) rule. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) decision that intermediate school graduates will not be employed by hospitals and healthcare throughout the country has raised controversy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and Ministry of Health (MoH) will allow the private Ha Noi University of Business and Technology to start recruiting students for its medical and pharmacy courses

Many problems found at the Hanoi Business & Technology University, called KinhCong by Hanoians and the Thai Nguyen Medical & Pharmacy University, have sparked worries about medical training quality in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many schools are not capable of providing quality medical training, but they still received licenses from the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

VietNamNet Bridge - Domestic medical supply and equipment manufacturers have found it difficult to sell their products in the home market, including large hospitals.

VietNamNet Bridge - While Vietnamese made medical and domestic waste incinerators are finding it difficult to enter the commercial market, foreign-made incinerators have been imported in great numbers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Small-scale incinerators, set up to treat waste and protect the environment, are causing pollution and spreading germs.

Viet Nam ranks among the top nations in the world in the early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infections.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People receiving vaccines through the free national immunisation programme will be compensated if the immunisation fails or causes serious side effects.

VietNamNet Bridge - There are 10 ministries in charge of environment management, but the environment remains seriously polluted, damaging people’s health.

While the government has been asked to remove business barriers to create favorable conditions for investors, the Ministry of Health (MOH) plans to create a new regulation that will require enterprises to spend VND1.1 trillion more a year.

The sophisticated endoscopy surgery technique invented by Associate Professor Dr Tran Ngoc Luong, the director of the Hanoi-based Central Hospital of Endocrinology, has been recognized worldwide.

Vietnam should legally recognise transgender people and permit transition therapy and surgery rather than force local people to go abroad for the treatment, a senior Health Ministry official said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Summer showers or even super typhoon Rammasun, which swept through northern Viet Nam last month, could not cool the heated debate over a draft law proposed by the Ministry of Health.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To sell food on the street, vendors will soon have to undergo mandatory health checks and training courses on food hygiene and safety.