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A prematurely born infant is treated at HCM City Pediatrics Hospital 1. —VNA/VNS Photo Phương Vy Viet Nam News HCM CITY— In the neonatal intensive care unit at HCM City’s Pediatrics Hospital 1, overcrowding can become so severe that some infants must stay in beds in the corridors. Despite fans, the hospital rooms are hot and stuffy. Two or three infants often share a bed while their respective relatives wait under the stairs, taking turns to care for the children.    For infants treated at the unit’s emergency room, their parents or grandparents must look for an empty area to sleep on a mat overnight. There, they wait for the doctor’s questions about the mother’s health or requests to feed their infants in the emergency room. Nguyễn Thị Thu Thủy (not her real name) of Củ Chi District told Việt Nam News that her niece was born prematurely at a hospital in the district and transferred to the unit … [Read more...] about Obstetrics, pediatrics hospitals struggle with patient overcrowding

  Some observers say fresh production cuts and a boost to prices would suit Saudi Arabia as it tries to support the IPO of its national oil company Aramco. — AFP Photo VIENNA — Faced with slowing global economic growth and abundant reserves putting pressure on oil prices, the OPEC group and its partners could seek to deepen output cuts when they meet in Vienna on Thursday and Friday. The cuts of 1.2 million barrels per day from October 2018 levels were originally fixed in December last year and were already extended at OPEC's last meeting in July. Some observers expected the cuts to remain in place possibly until the end of 2020. But Iraqi oil minister Thamer Ghadban on his arrival on Tuesday in Vienna suggested some members would push for output to be slashed by an additional 400,000 barrels per day. However, he added that any cut was "very much subject to the member countries". In comments reported by Bloomberg on Wednesday, Ghadban was in favour of extending the … [Read more...] about OPEC considers deeper output cuts as global growth slows

Vietnam held Thailand to a 2-2 draw in their last group-stage game to secure a semifinal berth as Group B’s leaders in men’s football at the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines on Thursday afternoon. The Vietnamese staged a comeback at the Binan Football Stadium, about 100km from the Filipino capital of Manila, where striker Nguyen Tien Linh scored twice to correct goalkeeper Nguyen Van Toan’s blunder. The young Golden Dragons conceded an early goal only five minutes into the game as the ball hit Thai striker Supachai from a careless goal kick by Van Toan and bounced back into the Vietnamese net. Only six minutes later, Van Toan once again failed to catch the ball from a shot by Suphanat, creating the chance for the Thai player to finish it in his second attempt, doubling the lead for the young War Elephants. The two blameworthy mistakes were thought to have shattered Vietnam’s spirit but the Vietnamese players proved they did … [Read more...] about Vietnam through to semifinals of men’s football at SEA Games 2019