Infant

HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Advances in treatment at hospitals nationwide have helped save more and more premature infants who are at high risk of mortality.  This improvement is in line with the United Nations' fourth Millennium Development Goal to reduce child mortality rates. “Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death among children under 5 years of age, responsible for approximately 1 million deaths in 2015. Three-quarters of these deaths could be prevented with current, cost-effective interventions,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. Many hospitals in Vietnam have improved their treatments for low birth-weight babies. Hung Vuong Hospital in HCM City, for instance, has been able to save thousands of premature infants each year. The survival rate of babies born between 24 and 37 weeks of pregnancy is now up to 90 percent. The latest premature infants who were saved by the hospital were … [Read more...] about Vietnam sees increasing survival rate of premature infants

Luong Huynh Kim Khanh is only 41 days old and survived thanks to the kindness of the doctors and nurses at Bac Lieu Hospital. He was named after the woman who brought him to the hospital. No one knows who his parents are. According to the nurses, at around 6.40 am on November 10, 2020, a woman named Luong Huynh Kim Khanh brought him to the hospital, saying that she was a roommate of his mother who is a worker. Khanh was born at Gia Rai Hospital and had a neonatal infection. … [Read more...] about Abandoned infant needs cleft palate surgery

The most common cause of hemorrhagic stroke in children is due to the rupture of a cerebral vascular malformation or the rupture of the cerebral aneurysm. They can also be caused by blood clotting disorders. … [Read more...] about Doctor warns of stroke risks for children

Meanwhile, Director of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Vietnam Cho Han Deog said that the project is launched following an agreement signed between the two countries in September 2013. The KOICA and the General Department of Land Administration worked together in building land management information from 2012 to 2015, which is continued with the project to enhance Vietnam’s capacity in land valuation and land information system basing on VietLIS. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 14

HCM City (VNS/VNA) – News that a three-year-old boy suffered a stroke recently shocked parents across Vietnam. Earlier this month, HCM City’s Children's Hospital reported a three-year-old child faced a month of hospitalisation due to a haemorrhagic stroke. The boy living in Vinh Long Province was playing with his friends then suddenly fell to the floor, had convulsions and lost consciousness. He was transferred to the Children's Hospital where tests showed signs of bleeding in the head. The boy had digital subtraction angiography (DSA) of his cerebral vessels to find the cause of the stroke. The result of the cerebral haemorrhage was that the boy had a cerebral aneurysm sac. Cerebral aneurysm is a common disease and one of the leading causes of death in the elderly, said Huynh Huu Danh, one of the doctors of the surgical department who treated the boy. While cerebral aneurysms are becoming more common among younger people, the boy is the youngest Danh has seen … [Read more...] about Doctors warn of stroke risks for children