The adjustment is the most radical and comprehensive among the four salary reforms since 1960, according to Minister of Home Affairs Phạm Thị Thanh Trà.

The influenza A(H5N1) -related dead student had a history of exposure to live birds before the onset of the disease, according to the Ministry of Health’s epidemiological investigation.

A 21-year-old male student at Nha Trang University died on Saturday after an eight-day fight against the H5 influenza virus.

Over the past 20 years, more than 1,800 patients have received kidney transplants at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital. The survival and living-well rates after 10 years is over 85 percent, higher than other reports in the rest of the world.

Vietnam is one of seven countries selected by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to conduct research on the M72 tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, given the fact that they have a high tuberculosis burden.

Hospital leaders have recently raised concerns over regulations of medicine and medical equipment procurement activities with policymakers from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

According to the World Health Organisation, Việt Nam’s vaccination coverage in recent years has been impacted the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccine supply’s interruption in the 2023 expanded program on immunisation.

As the chickenpox epidemic is spreading in Northern provinces such as Lao Cai, and Yen Bai, hundreds of people are infected with the disease which killed one.

Hospitals have admitted more people suffering from kidney failure.

The Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (CDC) reported that in recent weeks, the city continues to witness cases of dengue fever, averaging between 17-24 cases per week.

At the annual conference with more than 100 hospital leaders yesterday, the Minister of Health directed to cut down medical administrative procedures to please patients and businesses.

On March 16, according to the Air Visual application monitoring air quality, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Hanoi ranged from 196 to 237 in the morning, a very poor level detrimental to human health.

Sitting quietly in the Great Lecture Hall of the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, L.T.H, 49, tightly held his only son's hand.

Draped in a white blouse, for over two decades Dr. Tran Minh Long, the head of Anaesthesia and Resuscitation at Nghe An Obstetrics and Paediatrics Hospital, has been a silent hero, quietly rescuing millions of young lives across Nghe An and Ha Tinh.

According to the hospital’s deputy director Hoang Thi Lan Huong, the female patient, 32, who is at the 19th week of pregnancy, was diagnosed with septic shock, malignant malaria and acute liver failure.

Global cancer data in 2020 revealed that each year Vietnam has more than 21,500 new breast cancer patients and 9,345 people die from the disease.

According to the Hanoi Centre for Disease Control, the capital city has reported nine cases of whooping cough since the beginning of the year until March 7, a significant increase compared to previous years.

Southern metropolis HCM City will build the largest medical and pharmaceutical industrial park in the country, according to the city’s Department of Health.

Over 1,000 Vietnamese and foreign professionals in respiratory healthcare participated in scientific symposiums organised by GSK Pharma Vietnam Company Limited in Hanoi and HCM City on March 2 and 3.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) announced on March 6 that it has so far this year detected three cases of monkeypox.