Groups of leading Vietnamese health specialists are poised to meet for the sixth national consultation this week to check on the progress of a British pilot to determine if he is healthy enough to be discharged from hospital 

Vietnam’s most critically ill COVID-19 patient, a British pilot with Vietnam Airlines named Stephen Cameron, is expected to be discharged from hospital and return to his homeland in the UK soon, doctors at Cho Ray Hospital have said.

Vietnam’s most severe novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patient, a British pilot known as patient 91, continued on the pathway towards a miraculous recovery after undergoing three months of treatment

Border guards of Ho Chi Minh City on May 2 morning rescued a US citizen in distress on the Saigon River.

Laboratory workers at the Southern National Influenza Center of the HCM City Pasteur Institute are busy working with thousands of specimen lots from 22 provinces.

The measures Vietnam is taking to cope with the nCoV epidemic are based on the experience and scientific research results that have been accumulated for many years, since the time it faced SARS epidemic in 2002-2003.

Vietnam is well controlling the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (nCoV), said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on January 28.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam chaired an urgent meeting in Hanoi on January 24 in response to the acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (nCoV) strain.

Many hospitals in HCM City are carrying out programmes to help their patients enjoy the Lunar New Year season, or Tet, which falls on January 25.

Le Minh Hien, head of Community Service Office in HCM City’s Cho Ray Hospital, wakes up early every weekend and goes to nearby provinces to give free screenings to poor and underprivileged children.

The clinical application of stem cell therapy in Vietnam remains modest because of a shortage of stem cell products and high costs for research and application.

Only one hospital in Vietnam was equipped with surgical robots in 2014, but the figure had increased to four by the end of 2017.

After 20 years of distributing medical equipment, Vo Xuan Boi Lam decided to open a factory to make hi-tech medical equipment, because she ‘wants to do something for the fatherland’.

VietNamNet Bridge - The success of the first cross kidney transplant case has brought more hope to patients as the sources of organs for transplant will be expanded.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There are times when there’s bad news and even worse news.One such time is dealing with the problem of drug-resistant diseases in Viet Nam and elsewhere.

Doctors at HCM City’s Cho Ray Hospital are set to routinely use the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery technique after perfecting it by performing a few dozen surgeries over the past year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital and the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) has signed a Record of Discussion for a project to improve hospital management competency in southern Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Advanced medical techniques in cardiovascular surgery and interventions have been successfully transferred to provincial hospitals, saving the lives of hundreds of patients every year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Last week, a young girl in Dak Lak Province in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands had her leg amputated due to onset of caseation after she was treated in a hospital in the province.