Vietnam Thursday rejected a "fabricated" report that police had prevented Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang from traveling to Ho Chi Minh City for a medical examination. The government dismissed as a "total fabrication" the claim, which had been made by the Paris-based International Buddhist Bureau Wednesday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Dzung … [Read more...] about Vietnam rejects banning Buddhist monk from hospital visit
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Memory genius visits Vietnam
Eran Katz, an Israeli who holds the World Guinness Record for Memory is scheduled to visit Vietnam and hold talks about the secrets to having a good memory in Hanoi on March 9th. This meeting is part of his tour of Vietnam which will last from March 6th to March 11th. Eran Katz has had held more than 1700 lectures and seminars in many countries around the world, including ones with big corporations such as Motorola, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Nokia and General Electric among many otheres. He is also the author of two best-selling books in Israel "Secrets of Super Memory" and "Jerocome Becomes a Genius". … [Read more...] about Memory genius visits Vietnam
Vietnam leader lauds ‘flying eye hospital’ visit
Vietnam's Vice President Truong My Hoa Thursday appreciated the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, saying that it has greatly contributed to Vietnam's efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness and restore sight. Hoa visited doctors and specialists of the flying eye hospital, the world's only airborne ophthalmic surgical and training facility which had made the first-ever landing in Vietnam on Oct 9, at the international airport of central Da Nang City. She spoke highly of the hospital staffs' assistance to Vietnam. … [Read more...] about Vietnam leader lauds ‘flying eye hospital’ visit
Orbis Eye Hospital Flies Into Viet Nam
The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital brings a message of peace and brotherhood on its first eyesight-saving mission to Viet Nam. They begin work at eight in the morning so it's whisper quiet in the special airplane. The doctors and ophthalmology trainers talk softly into walkie-talkies pinned to their lapels. Fifteen-year-old Le Trung Thanh from Hoa Nhon, a commune in Da Nang's Hoa Vang District, is led inside by two nurses from the Da Nang Eye Hospital. He gets taken into the examination room for a final check then whisked straight into pre-op. His mother, Nguyen Thi Thao, waits nervously outside and remarks that she steps onto plane for her first time. Inside a score of visiting 20 surgeons and anesthetists work side-by-side with their Vietnamese colleagues checking that all is ready for the operation or giving hands-on training, lectures, surgical demonstrations, and diagnostic and post-operative consultations. In the plane's converted VIP area, Vietnamese doctors wearing … [Read more...] about Orbis Eye Hospital Flies Into Viet Nam
Hospital extortionists arrested after years of impunity
Two women telling Vietweek about vicious loan sharks operating at Ho Chi Minh City's Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital. The police have arrested an alleged gang of extortionists who reportedly operated there for years with impunity. Family members cry as the body of a relative is taken to the morgue at Ho Chi Minh City's Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital. Some strangers appear and clean the body shoddily before taking it into their car and demanding a ridiculously high fee to take it home. If the service is refused, the relatives of the dead are forced to pay the strangers exorbitant fees for cleaning the body and bringing it back to the morgue from the car. Such was the case for years at the hospital that specializes in tuberculosis and infectious diseases. Police and witnesses say a gang has been bullying people into paying bogus fees at the hospital since 2009. After arresting the suspects recently, police said the group had also been extorting protection money from xe om (motorbike taxi) … [Read more...] about Hospital extortionists arrested after years of impunity