The epidemics abroad are likely to break out in Vietnam unless preventive measures are taken, head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department Tran Dac Phu said at a seminar in Hanoi.
Hanoi (VNA) – The epidemicsabroad are likely to break out in Vietnam unless preventive measures are taken,head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department Tran Dac Phu warnedat a seminar in Hanoi on February 15 to launch tasks against epidemic infectionin the north.
Phu said vaccine-preventable diseasesare scattered in areas which record a low rate of vaccination and limitedpublic awareness of environmental and personal hygiene.
This year, the medical sector willstrengthen monitoring systems in border areas, medical stations and thecommunity to promptly discover and treat infections, and closely oversee influenza,dengue, foot-and-mouth, Japanese encephalitis and Zika cases.
The ministry will continue buildingemergency operations centres in several provinces, evaluating several newinfectious diseases, and consolidating quick-response teams in all channels.
It will also embark on a project toimprove the capacity of testing communicable diseases for 2016-2020, as well asenhance the inoculation rate to at least 95 percent of the district’s level.
According to the department, therewere 110,876 dengue cases nationwide last year, including 36 fatalities, up 19percent and down 18 cases, respectively, year-on-year.
More than 45,000 people were infectedwith foot and mouth disease, down 19.3 percent, including one fatality comparedto six recorded in 2015.
Zika infection amounted to 219 caseslast year and 13 this year, mostly in southern metropolis Ho Chi Minh City anda suspected microcephalic case in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.
Nguyen Duc Tien from the HealthMinistry’s Agency of Health Examination and Treatment said the agency has workedto reduce potential fatalities, including ensuring a sufficient medical staffto offer treatment to dengue patients, offering intensive training andstrengthening consultation on difficult cases.
This year, it will continue promotingdengue treatment in the south by offering more training courses and launching asupervision system.-VNA
The Zika infection case discovered in Japan on September 12 is not Vietnamese, confirmed the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine on September 15.
The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology on October 20 launched the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) office, aiming to collect information of epidemics in 28 northern provinces.
The health sector of Hanoi has built a monitoring system for early detection of epidemics across the locality as part of efforts to improve the city’s capacity to prevent and control diseases.
Vietnam is expected to produce six-in-one vaccines in 2017 or 2018 and by 2020 these will be used widely in the country, according to the Ministry of Health.
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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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All eligible patients will receive surgical interventions and post-operative care in accordance with Vietnamese medical standards and global care protocols.
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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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