Posts Tagged ‘ At The Hospital ’

US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

January 18, 2012
US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

  New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]

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Doctors warn of contagious brain inflammation in Vietnam metro 

January 16, 2012
Doctors warn of contagious brain inflammation in Vietnam metro 

A patient with fatal brain inflammation in HCMC   Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have warned of the outbreak of a fatal type of encephalitis that has affected five co-workers. The disease was caused by Neisseria, a large genus of commensal bacteria that colonize in the mucosal surfaces of many animals, and quickly kill the [...]

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Violence prone 

November 21, 2011
Violence prone 

  Emergency rooms in HCMC hospitals are witnessing a massive increase in the number of people wounded in intoxicated brawls Patients being treated at the emergency ward of Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors say there has been an alarming increase in cases of people wounded in fights being admitted to the hospitals. [...]

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Shortages ‘killing patients’ in Libya siege hospital 

October 3, 2011
Shortages ‘killing patients’ in Libya siege hospital 

Anti-Gaddafi fighters flash the victory sign in the front line north of the besieged city of Bani Walid October 2, 2011. People wounded in fighting in Libya’s besieged city of Sirte are dying on the operating table because fuel for the hospital generator has run out, medical workers fleeing the city said Sunday. The birthplace [...]

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Many Rubella-related abortions could have been avoided with better diagnosis: doctors 

August 8, 2011
Many Rubella-related abortions could have been avoided with better diagnosis: doctors 

A baby with cataract as a rubella syndrome at the Central Ob-Gyn Hospital in Hanoi. A woman in northern Vietnam spent three years undergoing treatment for infertility, and then had to have an abortion in the 12th week of her pregnancy after she caught the Rubella virus.   The woman is one of more than 1,000 [...]

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Southern kindergartens close amid rising HFMD threat 

July 17, 2011
Southern kindergartens close amid rising HFMD threat 

A mother looks at a closure notice in front of Vang Anh kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday. Several kindergartens have been shut down across Ho Chi Minh City this week as a hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) scare sweeps the country.   Vang Anh nursery school in District 8 closed its summer classes [...]

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US warns of Libya 'stalemate' as Misrata battle rages 

April 22, 2011
US warns of Libya 'stalemate' as Misrata battle rages 

A rebel fighter looks through bullet holes as he takes cover during a firefight and shelling near Tripoli street in Misrata, April 21, 2011. The top US military officer said air strikes had hobbled Libyan forces, but admitted the conflict was moving into "stalemate" as Muammar Gaddafi’s troops pressed on with their punishing siege of [...]

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Samaritan turns down $50,000 to donate kidney to a poor girl 

January 10, 2011
Samaritan turns down $50,000 to donate kidney to a poor girl 

Vu Quoc Tuan at the 8th national patriot festival in Hanoi. Vu Quoc Tuan has not had an easy life himself, but is firmly in the business of saving lives -  and expects no reward in return. His incredible humanity has seen him donate a kidney to a poor girl for free, refusing an offer [...]

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Doctor, health workers probed in health insurance scam

December 1, 2009
Doctor, health workers probed in health insurance scam

Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City Police on Tuesday began investigating a doctor and two health workers at a major HCMC hospital for allegedly faking health insurance documents and medical prescriptions worth billions of dong. Tran Dinh Tuy, a 42-year-old doctor at Cho Ray Hospital’s Internal Medicine Department, together with Huynh Quoc Thai [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...