FAO recommends cost-sharing to deliver bird flu vaccinations - (19-08-2008) |
| HA NOI — The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) recommended yesterday that Viet Nam consider moving from a fully publicly-funded bird flu mass-vaccination campaign, to a public-private funded one to ease the burden on the State as donations are on the decline, according to FAO’s senior avian influenza technical consultant Dr Tony Forman. |
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Ophthalmology centre to open in Hue - (19-08-2008) |
| The Health Ministry and the provincial authority of Thua Thien-Hue on August 14 broke ground for the Hue Ophthalmology and Training Centre, a 4 million USD addition to Hue Central Hospital. |
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Medics warn of dengue-fever rise - (19-08-2008) |
| HCM CITY — The number of dengue fever cases has increased this year in the south and is not expected to abate, health officials have said. |
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Hospitals to prevent bacterial contamination - (19-08-2008) |
| Investment in solid waste and sewage treatment systems and setting a hygienic standard were some of the measures proposed by the health care sector to control bacterial contamination at hospitals. |
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One in ten patients mentally ill: study report. - (19-08-2008) |
| HA NOI — One in ten patients across the country suffer mental health problems, according to research by Bach Mai hospital in Ha Noi, which also found that depression was the most common mental health problems among patients. |
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Government issues sex change decree - (12-08-2008) |
| The Vietnam Government on August 5 issued a decree limiting the legality of sexual reassignment operations.
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First health and lifestyle pay TV channel to air - (12-08-2008) |
| Vietnam Television, in coordination with the Ministry of Health and the S-Media Company, officially launched a new subscription television channel - the first ever health and lifestyle channel in Vietnam - on August 6. |
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Health clinic in Ca Mau begins operation - (12-08-2008) |
| Some hundreds of local were given medical check ups at a newly-opened health clinic in Tri Luc commune in the southernmost province of Ca Mau’s Thoi Binh district last week. |
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Month of HIV/AIDS control gets official name - (08-08-2008) |
| Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong has decided the name for the annual month of dissemination on HIV/AIDS control as “National Action Month for HIV/AIDS Control”, which is organised from November 10-December 10. |
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Cataract disease on increase in Vietnam - (08-08-2008) |
| An additional 170,000 Vietnamese have been diagnosed with cataract-related eye diseases each year, according to a report delivered at a national conference on blindness prevention in Hanoi on August 1. |
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