Amid the turbulence caused by the new strain of coronavirus, Vietnam has once again proven its ability to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A woman named Tran Thi Phuong Thao has a special necklace which she always carries with her. The pendant made of stainless steel shows her name, date of birth, and her special blood type.

With Vietnam being considered one of the world’s safe nations it is currently doing well in terms of public health in relating to COVID-19 prevention and treatment activities in three phases, before, during, and after the pandemic.

A coin was removed from a four-year-old girl’s stomach 14 hours after she swallowed it in Da Nang City.

Since he signed up with the border guard force in 1995, army medic Major Ninh Cong Khanh has provided free treatment to thousands of poor fishermen and their families in Hoa Hiep Bac Ward 

A 56-year-old patient from Binh Thuan Province was hospitalised recently at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in HCM City for prolonged fever and diarrhoea.

After three years of treatment, the first Vietnamese person diagnosed with Hematohidrosis has recovered.

The number of women with cervical cancer is increasing in Vietnam, health experts warned.

Vietnam’s first survivor Nguyen Thi Diep, 26, passed away on November 28, 17 years after liver transplantation in 2004.

Mergers and acquisitions in Vietnam’s healthcare and pharmaceutical sector in 2020 have been held up due to the global health crisis – but prospects remaining enticing thanks to new drivers of interest.

Antibiotics are overused and misused widely in Vietnam, health experts have warned, calling for drastic measures to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the country.

The Vietnam Public Health Portal was officially launched by the Ministry of Health on November 20, aimed at facilitating liaising with services provided by the health sector.

The Hanoi-based 108 Military Central Hospital has performed a multiple organ transplantation with organs taken from a brain dead donor, saving the lives of six different patients.

The biggest difficulty in intestine transplantation is connecting arteries and veins to nourish the transplanted organ.

Around 5.3 millions of Vietnamese people or 8.6 percent of the country’s population have pre-diabetes, announced Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Diabetes and Endocrinology Tran Huu Dang.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has told health facilities in flood-hit areas to prioritise clean water and ensure the areas are thoroughly disinfected to stop the spread of diseases.

Dr Nguyen Trung Cap and his colleagues at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi shaved their heads during their long stay at the hospital fighting COVID-19.

Just one third of all kidney dialysis patients nationwide are receiving proper treatment, a health congress held in Hanoi was told on Saturday.

Professor Tran Quy Tuong, director general of the Agency of Information Technology at the Ministry of Health, talks about the use of electronic health records.

Lying on the bed of the Military Hospital 103 in Hanoi with jaundiced skin, Nguyen Thi Diep, 25 years old, is waiting for her second liver transplant.