Health agencies redouble efforts to prevent viral, bacterial diseases
Health departments across Vietnam have been requested to augment supervision to detect and prevent viral encephalitis and bacterial meningococcal meningitis.
Children under treatment at the General Hospital of Kien Giang province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Health departments across Vietnam have been requested to augment s🦩upervision to detect and prevent viral encephalitis and bacterial meningococcal menin🐻gitis.
The Ministry of Health’s Department for Preventive Medicine said Coxsackie is an intestinal virus causing such diseases as encephalitis and hand-foot-and-mouth, which are usually recorded in children in the summer.
From April 20 to May 31, Bao Lam district of Cao Bang province reported 27 children between 2 and 22 months old with Coxsackie-induced diseases. Seven of them, all under six months old, died.
The northern mountainous province declared a Coxsackie A6 outbreak at the communal levels.
The preventive medicine department asked provincial health departments nationwide to step up efforts to detect encephalitis and hand-foot-and-mouth cases caused by Coxsackie, while suppressing outbreaks.
Local medical establishments must increase training for their staff, especially in rural areas. Communications on virus prevention should also be enhanced at schools and nurseries.
In Ho Chi Minh City, the first case of a person dying from meningococcal meningitis induced by Neisseria meningitides bacterium has been recorded.
The health ministry says the airborne bacterium can be found in both patients and healthy people. Young people have the most risk of infection from this bacterium.
It recommends people regularly wash hands with soap, gargle with normal antiseptic solutions, and keep living and working places clean. Children should be vaccinated against the disease, and people should see a doctor when they have high fever, headache, nausea, vomiting and a stiff neck.-VNA
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has introduced several new vaccines in the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation in an effort to improve the efficiency of disease prevention.
Hanoi health authorities have taken precautions to prevent epidemics and diseases that frequently occur in the period over spring and summer during the hot weather.
The General Department of Preventive Medicine and WHO in Vietnam co-organised a press seminar on the prevention of Zika virus disease and summer diseases.
Vietnam is facing a high risk of summer-related diseases such as flu, diarrhea, dengue fever, chicken-pox, rubella and meningitis, due to poor hygiene and unfavourable weather conditions.
About 2 million children (91.1 percent) aged 1-5, nationwide have received two doses of vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE) since the vaccine began to be provided on a monthly basis.
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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.
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 project aimed to enable early detection and reduce the risk of dangerous complications, targeting patients with chronic diabetes, cardiovascular conditions and metabolic disorders.
A 2023 report by the Vietnam Health Economics Association estimated that the total cost of tobacco-related healthcare and economic losses reached 108 trillion VND (4.14 billion USD) annually – equivalent to 1.14% of GDP and five times higher than the budget revenue generated by the tobacco industry.
All eligible patients will receive surgical interventions and post-operative care in accordance with Vietnamese medical standards and global care protocols.
Medical screenings and surgical interventions for children with disabilities are being carried out at health centers across Dien Bien. So far this year, 242 children have been identified for diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and the provision of assistive devices.
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.
Children under treatment at the General Hospital of Kien Giang province (Photo: VNA)
