The Japanese Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Ikuo Mizuki, on May 8 handed over 85,000 USD worth of medical equipment to Nam Can hospital in southern Ca Mau province.
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The capital city of Hanoi will help its Lao counterpart Vientiane organise food hygiene courses for health staff and train health workers for the 25th Southeast Games scheduled for late 2009.
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Vietnam is hoping to prevent bird flu in humans following good results from the first tests of made-in-Vietnam H5N1 influenza vaccine.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered the Health Ministry, relevant ministries and agencies to take urgent measures to prevent the hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD).
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Doctors at the Ho Chi Minh City Medical University’s Hospital successfully removed a 4.6kg tumor from a woman’s stomach in a two-hour operation on May 5.
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Around 4 million Vietnamese people, or 5 percent of the population, are suffering from asthma, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
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Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai emphasised the need to find ways to deal with epidemic diseases among livestock, both through immediate measures and in the long term.
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The Prime Minister has issued a decree on the organisation and operation of human tissue banks and the National Control Centre for Body Part Transplant.
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