All three children's hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have reported admissions of children with measles, despite being below the age recommended for vaccination, raising concerns over a potential measles outbreak.

According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Huu Uoc, Chairman of the Vietnam Vascular Disease Association, there is a noticeable trend of vascular diseases affecting younger age groups alongside the traditional elderly demographic.

The HCM City Department of Health (DoH) has recorded two cases of measles in babies from Binh Tan District.

Seeing a dermatologist abroad can take a long time — so some foreign patients are choosing Vietnam.

The support provided by reproductive technology packages has helped many couples burdened with rare genetic diseases to alleviate financial stress and increase the chances of having healthy babies.

Multiple food poisoning cases have been recorded across the country, with hundreds of victims affected in each.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 19 called on all Vietnamese adults, regardless of gender, ethnic groups, religion, or region, to register as an organ donor.

Vietnam is one of the countries with the lowest ratio of nurses per thousand people, only equal to one eighth of developed countries, said Pham Duc Muc, chairman of the VN Nurses Association.

About 100,000 others nationwide will be provided with direct medical consultations and check-ups during the programme from May to October this year, which is expected to be engaged by 20,000 young doctors.

According to the Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) statistics for 2022, Vietnam has approximately 180,400 new cancer cases and over 120,000 cancer-related deaths each year.

The deputy director of the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion said that blood cell tests could detect carriers of congenital Thalassemia.

The success of the surgery on April 22 has been a great landmark in Việt Nam’s healthcare field

Since the beginning of this year the country has recorded a total of 13,746 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), an increase of 2.5 times compared to the same period from 2023, according to the Ministry of health.

The HCM City Centre for Disease Control said that in the past week, the city has recorded an increase in cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) and dengue fever.

Doctors determined the case as a diagnosis of dengue hemorrhagic fever, characterised by rapid progression, shock, and multi-organ damage.

The International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) Training Centre under the Ministry of National Defence’s Military Hospital 175 officially made its debut in Ho Chi Minh City on April 15.

The country is currently seeing a spike in the number of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) being detected among children, with 10,196 cases recorded since the beginning of the year, a figure 2.3 times higher than the same period from last year.

The first pediatric organ transplant centre in Vietnam’s southern region is scheduled to be put into operation on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975 - 2025).

Currently, the country has nearly 4,000 people on the national organ transplant waiting list, said Director of the National Coordinating Center for Human Organ Transplantation Associate Professor Dong Van He.

The rate of organ donation from deceased people in Việt Nam remains modest compared to other countries, leaving demand for organs still far exceeding supply.