The Dong Nai provincial Department of Health began piloting the maintenance of electronic medical records on August 26 at the Long Khanh Regional General Hospital.
The southern province of Dong Nai has reported the second death from dengue fever, Director of the provincial Preventive Medicine Centre Bach Thai Binh said on September 8.
People with HIV/AIDS in the southeastern province of Dong Nai who have public health insurance can now go to any medical facility for treatment without requiring a transfer order from their designated hospital.
The southern province of Dong Nai had a meeting on May 9 with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to discuss a project to give technical support to the province, aiming to prevent and control HIV/AIDS in the locality.
The southern province of Dong Nai is among 13 localities that have received assistance from the US’ AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) in giving healthcare services to prisoners living with HIV/AIDS.
The southern province of Dong Nai, which houses Vietnam’s largest poultry population of 18 million birds, has been taking precautionary measures against avian flu.
The southern province of Dong Nai has reported its first case of Zika – a woman who tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus, local health department reported.
Though the rate of population covered by health insurance in Dong Nai province has continually increased and reached about 70.6 percent at present, it is still 4 pct lower than the national average.
A general hospital officially opened to patients in the southern province of Dong Nai’s Long Khánh town on May 16 after receiving investment of 750 billion VND (33.6 million USD).
Dengue fever is becoming more complicated in Dong Nai province with the monthly average of dengue infections requiring hospitalisation increasing to between 100 and 300 cases in July and August.
Over 3,500 cases of dengue fever, including three deaths, have been reported in the southern province of Dong Nai since early this year, doubling those in the same period last year.
Representatives of Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai General Hospital in the southern province of Dong Nai gathered to discuss ways to expand the network of satellite hospitals.