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Young doctor dreams of 'Made in Vietnam' pharmaceuticals

Truong Thanh Tung is a young doctor with great aspirations. With experience working abroad, Tung and his research team hope to make antiviral drugs in Vietnam to treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19.

Distinguished doctor receives award from World Stroke Association for his research

After selling property to pay for his education in the United States, Associate Professor Nguyen Huy Thang was seen as a "mad person" for turning down a large salary to work later at a state-run hospital in Vietnam.

Violations of Hippocratic Oath found in cases in healthcare sector

A number of famous doctors have recently had to pay a heavy price for their breaking of the Hippocratic Oath, which they recited at their medical school graduation ceremonies.

Young doctor at COVID-19 frontline honoured among Vietnamese outstanding youth

At just 32-years-old, Dr Tran Anh Tu is one of the youngest members of a special team of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Doctor brings medical advancements to disadvantaged province

Nguyen Thi Hang, a teacher of Tan An 1 Primary School in the northern province of Lao Cai left a thank you note before leaving the Urology Surgery Department of Lao Cai Province General Hospital.

Coronavirus: India's race against time to save doctors

India does not have the PPE kits it needs to protect its doctors and police from Covid-19 infection.

Frontline doctors in Covid-19 combat

National Hospital of Tropical Diseases No. 2 in Dong Anh district in Hanoi is home to the largest number of COVID-19 patients.

Retired nurses and doctors volunteer to return to serve

Hundreds of retired doctors and nurses in Hanoi have decided to return to work amid the rising number of Covid-19 patients in the country.

A day of doctors and employees at National Hospital of Tropical Diseases

These days, doctors, nurses and employees at Facility no.2 of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Kim Chung Commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi, are accompanying with patients to fight against COVID-19.

Doctors, nurses welcome Tet in hospital

Tet (Lunar New Year) is a time for families to get together and celebrate up and down Vietnam, but not for medical workers.

Overcrowding strains HCM City hospitals, doctors

Many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City face chronic overcrowding as they provide service for local patients as well as those from other provinces.

Overcrowding strains HCMC hospitals, doctors

Many hospitals in HCM City face chronic overcrowding as they provide service for local patients as well as those from other provinces. Patients from outside the city now account for some 60 percent.

Stay in, doctors tell the elderly, children

 VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors have urged the elderly and children to stay out of the heat as temperatures have climbed in recent days.

Doctors taking ‘extra’ money: not a black-and-white issue

 VietNamNet Bridge – When Tran Xuan Huong’s husband was hospitalised last year after his cancer got worse, she took him to a big military hospital in Ha Noi in the hope of saving his life.

Doctors quit public for private

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many health workers are reportedly quitting their jobs at public hospitals and seeking opportunities in private clinics, citing low salaries, a pressure-filled environment and a shortage of favourable policies as reasons to quit.

Doctors get less aggressive care before death

 Doctors tend to get less aggressive care before death than the average person, a new study finds.

Doctors, nurses exposed to HIV in emergency surgery

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nineteen medics, including 18 doctors and nurses and an apprentice, were confirmed as having been exposed to HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) after they performed an emergency surgery on a woman last Saturday.

Social News 27/5

 HCM City stocks up on toys for kids' day, Doctors, nurses blamed for death of young mother, Lack of nutrition stunts Vietnamese children, Soc Trang onion preservation safe for eyes, Decree aims to lessen gap between incomes

Paediatrician's Facebook offers free counselling

 VietNamNet Bridge – After hours of working his shift at HCM City Paediatrics Hospital No.1, Dr Truong Huu Khanh spends his free time advising parents about their children's health on his Facebook page.

Farmers take up research work as PhDs focus on business

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more scientists and professionals have given up their scientific research works and left laboratories, leaving farmers undertaking some of the scientists’ works.