An overview of the conference (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Minister of Health NguyenThi Kim Tien said it is a must to improve the quality and operationalefficiency of grassroots-level health care centres in order to attract morepatients. Speaking at a conference in Hanoi on December 20 to implement the pilot modelof enhancing capacity for medical centres at wards and communes, Tien said Vietnamhas a network of 11,400 infirmaries which spread nearly 99 percent of wards andcommunes nationwide.Thanks to the widespread coverage of health services, Vietnam has become one ofthe ten countries completing the millennium development goal relating maternaland child health, and successfully controlled and eliminated many dangerousdiseases, the minister said. However, she pointed to a range of limitations remaining at grassroots health careservices such as low quality, limited capacity of health workers and theshortage of medicines, among others. The health ministry has rolled … [Read more...] about Vietnam increases grassroots health care services
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Hundreds of Đồng Nai workers undergo health checks
ĐỒNG NAI — Over 190 workers from a wooden furniture company in the southern province of Đồng Nai underwent health checks after eating lunch on Tuesday. Most experienced tiredness, itching in the throat, vomiting and some reportedly had a stomachache. After examining the food the workers ate for lunch, the province’s Food Safety Department found that improperly-processed Colocasia gigantea that was used to make soup was responsible for the symptoms. The Colocasia gigantea had not been peeled fully, which led to the itching. Head of the department Nguyễn Văn Hữu said the workers were from Miền Quê Commercial Sevices and Production Company in Nhơn Trạch 2 Industrial Zone, employing 1,800 workers. The company provides meals to its workers. The company will be penalised in connection with the issue, Hữu said. — VNS … [Read more...] about Hundreds of Đồng Nai workers undergo health checks
City health department accepts licence applications online
HCM CITY – The HCM City Department of Health has launched a system for public services in the health industry that enables online applications and notification by text messages. Medical practitioners and businesses seeking licences or eligibility certificates for pharmaceutical services can apply online and wait for a notification via text message. They can then go to the department for the documents or even have them sent by post. The department is working on programmes to teach medical practitioners how to use the system. It was trialled since December last year, and more than half the applications have been submitted this way since. – VNS … [Read more...] about City health department accepts licence applications online
Health ministry urged to resume supply of malaria drugs
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health should resume supply of malaria drugs to hospitals in many provinces that have not had the disease for a long time, according to health experts.The HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases has admitted a 55-year-old patient from the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre who was brought from a local hospital after her health steadily worsened despite two weeks of treatment.However, the local hospital did not have drugs to treat her malaria and had merely transfused blood.Dr Nguyen Hoan Phu of the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases said the ministry should provide drugs such as Artesunate to provincial-level hospitals for treating malaria since the disease could return despite a long absence.If patients with malaria are not treated in a timely fashion, they could get a severe form or drug-resistant malaria like the patient from Ben Tre, he said.Besides, more training in malaria treatment should be provided to improve diagnosis, especially … [Read more...] about Health ministry urged to resume supply of malaria drugs
Minister of Health helps matyr’s daughter find a job
The Minister of Health, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, hasextended help to the daughter of a martyr who died in a fight withChinese forces in the Spratly archipelago, so that she could have a job to support her poor family. Phan Thi Trang, thedaughter of matyr Phan Huy Son, fromDien Chau District, Nghe An Province, has been unable to find a jobafter graduating from a medicine college. Trang has recently sent a letter tothe Facebook page of the Minister of Health to call for help. In her letter, Trang said that she urgently needs a job to support her mother who is suffering from serious kidney problems and her disabled brother. "My father was a military doctor and diedin 1988 during the Gac Ma Island battle with the Chinese forces," Trang wrote. "My mother had struggled to raise my brother who was born with disabilities and me." Trang said she decided to follow her father's career and managed to get into a local medicine school. Director of Nghe An Province Department of … [Read more...] about Minister of Health helps matyr’s daughter find a job