Vietnam will upgrade six hospitals to international standards, aiming to curb the trend of Vietnamese people seeking medical care overseas, and at the same time, attracting foreign patients to Vietnam.

Under a government plan, Vietnam expects to have 33 hospital sickbeds, 15 doctors, 3.4 pharmacists and 25 nurses per 10,000 people by 2025.

The second baby girl undergoing fetal cardiac intervention was delivered by cesarean section surgery yesterday in Tu Du Maternity Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

Health records revealed that Vietnam is home to about 100 rare diseases and around 6 million patients, heard a symposium held by the Vietnam Medical Association in Hanoi on February 29.

At the Asian Transplantation Week 2023 (ATW 2023) held in Korea’s Seoul covering hot topics and up-to-date findings in the various fields of transplantation, Vietnam was honored for its achievements in organ transplants.

Genuone Sciences signed a business agreement with Vietnam’s Imexpharm Joint Stock Company on the transfer of technology for seven products, including medications for the treatment of cardiovascular and diabetes-related diseases.

Vietnamese doctor Nguyen Thanh Triet, director of Binh Dinh Hospital of Ophthalmology, has been honoured with the 2024 Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Award.

The health sector has made great strides in the performance of organ transplants.

The Ministry of Health said it has requested Lam Dong Province General Hospital to report the incident in which the hospital mistakenly provided X-ray results to a patient, leading to wrong surgery for this individual.

DrAid™ CT Liver Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment (D&T), which uses AI, will allow liver cancer patients to receive radical treatment thanks to early detection of the disease with no lesions missed, according to Truong Quoc Hung, CEO of VinBrain.

International medical cooperation in Ho Chi Minh City has generated positive outcomes in recent years, contributing to improving the quality of medical services, protection, and care of people's health.

The first ever Vietnamese baby to have foetal cardiac surgery was born healthy and discharged on Monday, Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City said.

Vietnam in 2023 has managed to have solid control over infectious disease situation, with the general goal of minimising the incidence and mortality from infectious diseases compared to the 2016-20 average.

An 18-year-old female student was rushed to the emergency room, unable to move the left side of her body and experiencing severe speech impairment. Doctors diagnosed her with a rare form of stroke.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has ordered facilities to continue collecting samples from COVID-19 patients for genome sequencing as various infections with the JN.1, an Omicron sub-variant, are detected in HCM City.

Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous locality in Vietnam, has seen a sharp increase in the number of cases caused by the JN.1 sub-variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the Ministry of Health has said.

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion has said it still needs about 10,000 units of blood for treatment and emergency cases during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday that is due to last for seven days.

In a historic medical breakthrough, Vietnam witnessed the first successful delivery of a baby over three weeks after having undergone foetal heart surgery.

An agreement signing ceremony to deploy the Nura general health check model, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, took place on Saturday afternoon in Hanoi.

The surge in travel demand during Tet (Lunar New Year) is a favourable condition for diseases to spread, including COVID-19, a health official of Ho Chi Minh City has said.