Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi has adopted a plan to ensure 78% of children aged 6-23 months enjoy an adequate diet by 2025, which will increase to 80% by 2030.
The rate of adult intake of fruit and vegetables will reach 65% by 2025 and 70% by 2030. Under the plan, recently issued by the municipal People’s Committee to realise the national nutrition strategy for 2022-2030, no family will lack food from 2025.
80% of communes and wards will offer nutrition consultations to pregnant women and those with children aged below 2 in basic health care packages provided by medical stations in communes, wards and towns. The rate is expected to reach 100% by 2030.
To such end, 70% of schools must offer menus with proper nutrition as recommended by the Health Ministry by 2025 and the rate will increase to 90% by 2030.
By 2025, 90% of hospitals in the city will conduct health check-ups and treatment based on feeding regimes suitable for nutritional and the pathological status of patients, with the figure rising to 100% by 2030.
♑ Hanoi surpassed targets in the national nutrition strategy for 2011-2020, but the city is facing growing obesity and a lack of knowledge about nutritional care among women of reproductive age. The rate of breastfeeding in six months following birth is only 43.9%, Physical activity at the recommended level for adults reached only 38.3% in 2021, while daily sodium intake remains high, causing non-communicable chronic diseases related to nutrition./.
Vietnam will work to improve nutritional status of under five-year old children who are stunned, especially those in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit held virtually in Japan on December 7-8.
Every day at 6am, Thuy, who lives in Hanoi’s Ciputra urban area, is busy washing vegetables to make detox juice for the whole family. Tying her hair neatly, she opens the refrigerator to take out vegetables that have been washed the previous day make juice and others to mix with oatmeal for breakfast with her husband and children.
After 10 years implementing the National Strategy on Nutrition (2011-2020), Vietnam is still facing a lot of problems such as a rapid increase in childhood obesity, a big gap in malnutrition between regions and a high percentage of children with micronutrient deficiencies. Vietnam is facing dual problems of child nutrition: deficient and redundant in nutrients.
While over-nutrition can lead to chronic diseases, under-nutrition seriously affects the mental and physical development of children, and both have long-term consequences.
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The patient, Tieu Viet But, born in 1970 and residing in Binh Tri commune, Binh Son district, the central province of Quang Ngai, was working aboard fishing vessel Qng – 95657TS when the incident occurred at 7:00 am.
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Health experts called for collective disease prevention and integrated solutions to achieve zero dengue deaths in the country at an online talk show on June 14.
The PM called for closer, broader, and more effective cooperation with Vietnamese partners, guided by the principles of mutual benefit, joint efforts, shared outcomes, and common development, including promoting stronger public-private partnerships and collaboration with businesses.
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The Red Journey has become the country’s largest and most effective blood donation campaign, leaving a strong impression on the national voluntary blood donation movement.
This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
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