A Vietnamese military medical team in South Sudan has successfully performed emergency surgery under field conditions to save a Pakistani worker’s nearly amputated finger, highlighting the unit’s skill.
Twenty-six leading experts in surgery from countries around the world such as the US, UK, Germany, Belgium, Japan and the Republic of Korea gathered at the 20th conference on science and technology being held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 14-15 by Binh Dan Hospital.
The Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy aims to train 150 doctors in uncommon medical fields, including tuberculosis, leprosy, psychiatry, forensic science and surgery, for the Mekong Delta in this academic year, according to the university’s rector Nguyen Trung Kien.
Da Nang Hospital has saved a foreigner suffering multiple serious injuries from a traffic accident while travelling from the central city of Da Nang to Hoi An town in neighboring Quang Nam province.
The Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP) has raised over 1 trillion VND (46.46 million USD) from various community sources to help the poor over the past 25 years.
Conjoined twins joined at the coccyx area were successfully separated at the Children’s Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City, announced the hospital officials at a press conference on October 4.
Highly skilled doctors in Vietnam using advanced prostheses and techniques have improved the quality and success rate of hip replacement surgery to a level as high as that of other countries.
Doctors from the US and Italy have provided free genital regeneration operations for 230 Vietnamese children, and given free consultation and check-ups to 800 other patients since August 2011 under a programme entitled “Thien Nhan and Friends”
Three Vietnamese fishermen working on Singapore’s Le Tong Patriot ship received emergency aid at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) after they suffered severe burns from a fire on board on May 6.
Treatment for urinary kidney stones, a common health problem in countries with a tropical climate, has become more advanced in Vietnam, according to doctors at Binh Dan Hospital in HCM City.
Nearly 1,900 different services and products at public hospitals will become around 30 percent more expensive in March, according to the Ministry of Health.
US organisation Giving It Back to Kids and the VinaCapital Fund will sponsor a charity drive for 33 underprivileged children with heart disease in the central city of Da Nang.
About 200,000 children and elderly people in the Mekong Delta region will benefit from eye care services under a project to be carried out from 2016-2018.
About 200 children with disabilities in the northwestern mountainous province of Son La have benefited from a five–day free operation programme that runs through August 8.
