In response to these health concerns, the HCM City Department of Health recently held an online conference to discuss the situation of infection detection and treatment with neighbouring provinces in the southern region.

Vietnam has reported the first death from monkeypox disease in HCM City.

Many hospitals and medical facilities in the Mekong Delta region are facing a shortage of blood for emergency and long-term treatment of patients.

The nation has so far documented a total of 22 monkeypox infections, with two of them having their source of transmission outside of the country.

Quang Nam province's Department of Health announced on October 23 the death of a woman after contracting an infectious disease called melioidosis, also known as Whitmore's disease.

The Ho Chi Minh City’s health sector is treating 20 cases of monkeypox at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, including 18 cases diagnosed with B20 as of October 22.

The capital has seen another death caused by dengue fever this year amid infections continuing to rise in the city, according to the figures released by the municipal Centre for Disease Control (CDC).

Vietnam has officially downgraded the classification of Covid-19 to a Class B infectious disease from October 20 following a decision signed by Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong.

This is the first surgery of its kind in Vietnam, and the success of the operation further affirmed Vietnamese doctors’ mastery of many advanced cardiovascular techniques, said the Vietnam National Heart Institute (VNHI).

The salaries of young doctors is not high enough to cover basic needs. This partially explains why Vietnam is lacking medical workers.

The Da Nang Centre for Disease Control announced on October 18 that the central city had detected a suspected case of monkeypox.

The average meat consumption of Vietnamese is 134 grams per head per day, including 95.5 grams of red meat, higher than the recommended 70 grams per head per day. The figure is even higher in urban areas.

During the past week, HCMC identified six more cases of monkeypox, increasing the total count of monkeypox cases in the city to 19.

Vietnam will test the efficacy of a Japanese produced vaccine against dengue fever to create immunity for people amid a rising number of dengue infections throughout the country.

The capital documented an additional of 265 hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) during the initial week of October, double the amount compared to the same period from last month, according to the capital’s Center for Disease Control (HCDC).

While cardiovascular diseases have been increasing, experts at a scientific conference assessed that Vietnam has now mastered many modern cardiology techniques.

Many children with cancer lose their hair during chemotherapy, but really they lose much more… their dignity and confidence.

Nitrous Oxide (N2O), more commonly known as "laughing gas" is being misused, which led to serious health hazards according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).

The Ho Chi Minh City health sector has confirmed that the southern city has detected four additional cases of monkeypox, thereby taking total infections up to 13.

Among nearly one-fifth of the Vietnamese population being overweight, the obesity rate accounted for 2.1 percent.