Recruiting doctors to work in commune health centres and district hospitals in mountainous regions has become more successful.

Decisions to donate the organs of two brain-dead men have saved the life of eight patients who were in critical condition.

Doctors from Tu Du Hospital and Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City successfully performed a foetal cardiac surgery on January 4, the first ever not just in Vietnam but in Southeast Asia.

Vietnamese doctors have mastered new techniques such as liver transplants with different blood types for older children, preparing new radioactive drugs, and saving a newborn baby who weighed 400 grams.

Caring for a premature and low-birth-weight baby is not an easy job, but extremely difficult and demanding.

Abrupt weather changes have led to an increase in the number of people catching seasonal influenza and showing mild or severe symptoms.

The Ministry of Health has recently issued a circular outlining 50 disease categories and health conditions that can be diagnosed and treated remotely.

Social security offices and hospitals nationwide will trial electronic health insurance referrals and health check-up records in April this year, looking to completely remove the need for paper.

According to Dr. Nguyen Vu Thuong, Deputy Director of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, the disease surveillance system in the Southern region has recorded 117 cases of monkeypox including 6 deaths since the disease was reported in Vietnam.

The health centre of Bien Hoa City in the southern province of Dong Nai reported on December 21 that it has recorded another local resident infected with monkeypox in Long Binh ward.

The first Vietnamese Medical Encyclopedia will be published shortly.

The Women's Unions of Thu Duc City and District 6, HCM City, cooperated with the "Let Her Talk" campaign to host the "Screen for Cervical Cancer Today" event on December 2 and 9.

The HCM City Health Department has warned of the potential risk of a COVID-19 resurgence in the city amid a wave of cases emerging in many Western-Pacific countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Guam, and Brunei.

The number of new cancer cases in Vietnam has been increasing, while breast and colorectal cancer patients are getting younger.

The recent announcement by Cambodia of two additional human cases of H5N1 avian influenza has raised concerns about the spread of the disease in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health has said.

A hospital in Vietnam has successfully prepared two new types of radioactive drugs for use in PET/CT techniques. Previously, cancer patients who were prescribed a scan with the drug had to go abroad to have it done.

The Ministry of Health is working hard to ensure vaccine supply for the national expanded program on immunisation (EPI), heard a regular Government press conference in Hanoi on December 6.

With the successful preparation of these two types of radioactive drugs, patients will no longer need to go abroad at high cost to access this treatment.

As of early October this year, after 31 years of organ transplants and 13 years of retrieving organs from brain-dead donors, the country has performed nearly 8,000 organ transplants.

The Ministry of Health has raised warnings about the possible emergence of respiratory diseases in Vietnam.