January 18, 2012
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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August 26, 2011
Tran Van Dai, 21, from the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang, shows his scar after returning home from China to sell his kidney. People who illegally enter China to sell their kidneys may lose other internal organs without knowing it, a police official has warned. Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Nguyen Phu Thuong of Can Tho City [...]
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August 20, 2011
Dr. Robert De Castro (L) examines a child patient at the Hanoi Medical University Hospital on August 16, 2011. Dr. Roberto De Castro, a famous Italian specialist in pediatric genital reconstruction, is in Hanoi to provide free examination for 86 Vietnamese child patients with genital deformities. After arriving in Hanoi on Tuesday, Dr. De Castro has [...]
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November 22, 2010
Ten people who claim to have lost their eyesight in botched surgeries at the Ho Chi Minh City Ophthalmology Hospital have filed lawsuit demanding over VND1.2 billion (US$61,601) in compensation.  In an interview with VnExpress, lawyer Trinh Thanh from the Law Firm for the Poor, said 14 people filed lawsuits but, in the end, District 3’s People’s Court [...]
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January 18, 2010
More than one third of all births in Vietnam are delivered by caesarean section, the second highest rate among nine countries surveyed by the World Health Organization (WHO). A study found that 36 percent of births in Vietnam were delivered by C-sections, after Chinaâs 46 percent and followed by Thailand with 34 percent, the UN [...]
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December 7, 2009
Nguyen Duc Huynh (L) visits Ho Van Lai, a victim of war-era unexploded ordnance in the central province of Quang Tri last month A boy deformed by a war-era napalm bomb helps the less fortunate. Nguyen Duc Huynh was chased out of a café on the bank of Hanoiâs West Lake Tuesday after the owner [...]
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November 14, 2009
Five-year-old Tran Ngoc Bao Tran is examined by a doctor in Ho Chi Minh City. An American charity organization gives accident victims and children with cleft lips the opportunity for acceptance. She has no nose and her face is covered completely by burns. Her nostrils are two small holes, surrounded by brown, wrinkled skin. She [...]
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October 16, 2009
The Prime Minister has ordered an investigation into a central hospitalâs brain surgery unit after local media reported that epilepsy surgery there was leaving people paralyzed and with brain damage. The results of the investigation by the Ministry of Health will be released by October 30, according to a statement posted on the government website [...]
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October 3, 2009
LookAtVietnam – “20 Years of Smiles – A Journey of Miracles” will be celebrated next month with free surgeries and treatment for 2,000 children with facial deformities across the country. Three-year-old Ly Van Tuyen before (L) and after undergoing a free surgery funded by Operation Smile Vietnam July 2009Commemorating the 20th anniversary of Operation Smile [...]
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October 3, 2009
Three-year-old Ly Van Tuyen before (L) and after undergoing a free surgery funded by Operation Smile Vietnam July 2009 “20 Years of Smiles – A Journey of Miraclesâ will be celebrated next month with free surgeries and treatment for 2,000 children with facial deformities across the country. Commemorating the 20th anniversary of Operation Smile Vietnam, [...]
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