VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists are optimistic about Vietnam’s capability of exporting vaccines directly to other countries or through United Nations’ organisations following official international recognition of Vietnam-made vaccines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A shortage of paid vaccinations – foreign-produced vaccines that must be paid for - will continue this year, says an official from the Ministry of Health.

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 The Ministry of Health has said that after one month implementation of massive free vaccination campaign, more than 4.7 million children nationwide have been injected vaccine against measles and rubella.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The Health Ministry has ordered all provinces to intensify measles prevention and quarantine measures as the epidemic is likely to spread due to the humid and cold weather and the increase in travel at the beginning of the year.

On January 15, one day after a Quinvaxem vaccination at a local medical station, a nearly 3-month-old boy in Da Lat died. The Lam Dong Department of Health has stopped Quinvaxem vaccinations in the whole province.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After more than three years without a single case of measles, the HCM City Children's Hospital 1 now receives 5-6 child patients per day with complications.

On December 18, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund issued a joint statement confirming that there was no evidence of danger of the 5 in 1 Quinvaxem vaccine in Vietnam and in other countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Along with the southern province of Tien Giang, Hai Phong, Thai Nguyen and Kien Giang, provinces have reported dozens of cases of adverse reactions after Quinvaxem vaccine was re-used in the national extended vaccination.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Chief of the Preventive Medicine Agency – Mr. Nguyen Van Binh – has said that the 5 in 1 vaccine Quivaxem of Korea will be used again in October, after being paused for five months.

Nearly a dozen of incidents occurring in the health sector in the past month shook the public opinion. After three infants died after vaccinations, thousands of patients discovered to be cheated with false test results in Hanoi’s Hoai Duc Hospital.

Reasoning that the Ministry of Health cannot determine the reason causing the death of three infants in Quang Tri province last week, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has asked for the Ministry of Public Security’s assistance.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twelve hours after vaccination against hepatitis B, a baby girl died at the Hospital of Tuy Phong District, Binh Thuan Province on July 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the test results for lots of Quinvaxem 5-in-1 vaccine of the Republic of Korea used in Vietnam meet quality standards.

The Ministry of Health on December 20 asked the World Health Organization (WHO) and the manufacturer to verify the safety of the vaccine Quinvaxem and polio, after three babies in Nghe An province died after vaccination.

VietNamNet Bridge - Due to half a million of people who are bitten by dogs each year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) aims to firstly know the exact number of dogs for vaccination, not to give a code for each dog.