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Hanoi (VNA) - Nearly 5,000 additional cases of dengue fever have beendetected in Hanoi within the last two weeks, including six fatal ones.
This raises the total number of people contracting dengue fever in the capitalto more than 13,200 since early this year.
The sixthpatient, who reportedly died of dengue fever on August 9 night at the NationalHospital for Tropical Diseases, was a 56-year-old woman from Thanh Xuan district.She was hospitalised five days earlier with cardiac arrest and multi-organfailure.
The fiveother fatalities were from the capital’s Hoang Mai, Dong Da, Ba Dinh and HaDong districts. Data from the city’s Centre for Preventive Medicine show that90 percent of dengue patients live in the districts of Hoang Mai, Dong Da,Thanh Xuan, Ha Dong, Cau Giay, Hai Ba Trung, Thanh Tri, Thanh Oai, Thuong Tin,and Hoai Duc.
Denguefever generally mimics flu symptoms and goes away within a week, but some casescan be more serious and require hospitalisation.
The rapidincrease in the number of dengue fever patients has pushed hospitals intooverload, including the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Bach MaiHospital, Thanh Nhan Hospital and Dong Da Hospital.
The National Hospital for Tropical Diseases onAugust 9 had to use its meeting room to set up 20 beds for patients. Thatmorning, 500 people arrived at the hospital for dengue-fever examinations.
Thehospital has a hotline number - 0969241616 - to receive questions related todengue fever.
The Ministry of Health reports that over 82,000 people have contracted denguefever around the country this year, with 23 fatalities.-VNA
A working team from the Ministry of Health led by Vice Director of the Preventive Medicine Department Dang Quang Tan inspected the prevention and control of dengue fever in the central city of Da Nang on August 4.
The Health Ministry will intensify the spraying of mosquito-killing chemicals in high-risk areas as the dengue fever epidemic shows signs of worsening, especially in Hanoi.
The Hanoi Department of Health is intensifying measures to reduce the number of fatalities caused by mosquito-borne dengue fever – which is likely to cause more infections due to hot and rainy weather.
Despite storm-related disruptions and flight delays, the organs were successfully transported via a combination of air and ground travel. All patients are currently stable and recovering well.
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.
All drugs entering hospitals must have a clear origin, so counterfeit drugs are only in the market, not in hospital, affirmed Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan.
To achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2045, Vietnam is prioritising the integration of AI and digital tools into the training of future doctors, said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Viet Nhung, Dean of Medicine at University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University (VNU) Hanoi.
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.
Spray chemical to kill mosquito larva (Photo: VNA)
