Posts Tagged ‘ Hospitals ’

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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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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Vietnam hospitals to support renal kids with Australian resources 

November 12, 2011

  Families in Ho Chi Minh City with children who have chronic kidney disease will meet to support each other for the first time next week, as a ‘Kidney Club’ is launched in the city’s two largest children hospitals.   The clubs will include approximately 300 families of children affected by Nephrotic Syndrome so that they can learn and support [...]

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Hospital bribery much more than what’s in ‘the envelope’ 

October 30, 2011
Hospital bribery much more than what’s in ‘the envelope’ 

A man and his three-year-old daughter who is being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease in the southern province of Dong Nai. Since early this month five major hospitals in Hanoi have caused quite a stir with a campaign asking their health workers to refrain from receiving money offered by patients or their families [...]

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Vietnam minister downplays seriousness of hand-foot-mouth outbreak 

October 30, 2011
Vietnam minister downplays seriousness of hand-foot-mouth outbreak 

Child patients at HCMC Children’s Hospital 1 being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Vietnam is still under control, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a press conference Tuesday (October 25), despite the rising number of new HFMD cases. The disease has killed 137 people, [...]

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South Korea becoming medical tourism hub 

October 16, 2011
South Korea becoming medical tourism hub 

  The medical tourism market in South Korea is expected to grow around 30 percent during 2010-2012, according to a study from RNCOS, a global market research and information analysis company A robotic operation performed at the Wonkwang University Hospital on September 29, 2011 Clean, modern facilities, and a warm welcome greet patients at several [...]

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‘Hurdles’ at hospitals still hard for Indian pharma companies 

October 11, 2011
‘Hurdles’ at hospitals still hard for Indian pharma companies 

Pham Viet Thanh at Indian Pharma Outlook seminar 2011 at Sheraton Hotel Saigon on Friday September 30. Indian pharmaceutical companies have been doing good business in Vietnam but they say there are still ‘hurdles’ at public hospitals, according to speakers at seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday. Addressing the meeting called “Indian Pharma [...]

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Higher fees double patients’ concerns 

October 11, 2011
Higher fees double patients’ concerns 

  Higher hospital fees could prevent the poor from getting treatment and many question if increased fees will improve services Patients wait to pay hospital fees at Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Trai Hospital. The Health Ministry is evaluating increasing hospital fees as they said current fees are too low to maintain services. Holding a [...]

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Unhealthy relationship 

August 28, 2011
Unhealthy relationship 

An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]

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A problem of epidemic proportions 

August 20, 2011
A problem of epidemic proportions 

A mother feeds her child, who receives treatment for hand-foot-mouth disease at Binh Duong General Hospital in the southern province of Binh Duong. It is well known in Vietnam that localities and management agencies are usually reluctant to make announcements when epidemics occur, fearing that it will affect their reputation and achievements in the field [...]

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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...