December 23, 2011
The first and only province to declare the epidemic of the hand, foot, and mouth disease in Vietnam this week said the dangerous period has ended. Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuan made the announcement after its Health Department on December 12 said the province has gotten the disease under control. The number of [...]
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September 20, 2011
A man carrying chickens on National Highway 1 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh District. Bird flu has hit flocks of fowl in three of Vietnam’s north-central provinces over the last two weeks, the Department of Animal Health announced on Tuesday (September 13). Hoang Van Nam, the department chief, said at a meeting of [...]
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July 4, 2011
Patients with critical conditions from southern provinces are going to be cured from afar by doctors in Ho Chi Minh City instead of waiting for hours to reach the city hospitals, local news website VnExpress said Wednesday. Â Doctors at the patients’ area will get support and instructions from those in HCMC via the [...]
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May 28, 2011
Two more children died from hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) this week in Ho Chi Minh, bringing this year’s HFMD death toll in the city to 11, the Health Department announced Tuesday. Last year, the disease took only one life in the city. All HFMD fatalities are children below five years old, according [...]
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May 6, 2011
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a human syndrome caused by intestinal viruses. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has taken the lives of six children in Ho Chi Minh City hospitals so far this year, while only one died from the disease last year, according to the municipal Health Department. The department on [...]
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May 3, 2011
Ho Chi Minh City authorities will tighten control on the purchase of medicines by hospitals and on drug prices, health officials said at a talk show in HCMC Sunday. The Sunday “Talk and Act” show by HCMC Television focused on the measures to stabilize drug prices with the participation of officials from the Health [...]
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January 22, 2011
HCMC health officials check food products at the Binh Tay wholesale market. Health inspectors from Ho Chi Minh City disposed of nearly 3,000 eggs that did not meet food safety and hygiene requirements during an inspection carried out Tuesday. The inspection also found many pork bologna samples contaminated with borax, as well as nearly 51 [...]
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February 6, 2010
Rice wine with excessive chemical substances added to it killed five people and sent 23 to hospital between Saturday and Monday in the central province of Ninh Thuan, a local health official said on Wednesday. Ninh Thuan Health Department Director Le Minh Dinh said tests showed that two-third of the liquorâs samples taken from shops [...]
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February 2, 2010
A chili powder factory in Ho Chi Minh City has been suspended after its products were found to be contaminated with industrial dye Rhodamine B, which is a carcinogenic substance, health officials said Friday. Officials from the cityâs Health Department earlier took chili powder and reddening powder samples from the Kim Nga factory in Binh [...]
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January 24, 2010
Health insurance holders at An Binh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 5 on Thursday. Policyholders no longer enjoy full payment and pay up to 20 percent instead. Tran Van Hoang says he might not be able to pay his bills at An Binh Hospital after being admitted last Thursday for urolithiasis and asthma.Although [...]
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