December 12, 2011
Chromobacterium violaceum that causes bone inflammation as seen through a microscope. A girl in south central Vietnam is infected with a rare bacterium that has damaged parts of her skull. The disease is believed to be fatal. Doctors at the Children’s Hospital No.2 in Ho Chi Minh City said the child, who was not named, [...]
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November 7, 2011
Following the discovery, the newborn was rushed to intensive care where he remains in a stable condition. Health authorities in south China said Friday they were investigating a hospital medical team for mistakenly diagnosing a stillbirth and disposing of a baby that was alive. The probe is taking place at the Nanhai Red Cross [...]
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October 21, 2011
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. At some point this month, October 2011, a child will be born and the world’s population will have reached seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region; home to 61 percent of the world’s population. If the child is born in the [...]
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August 28, 2011
11-year-old Pham Thanh Ngoc gets her math homework checked by a local math teacher. The girl recently applied for a public high school Pham Thanh Ngoc did not drop out of school. She just refused to go to school, from kindergarten onward. However, Ngoc’s reluctance to attend school was not of the usual variety. It [...]
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May 7, 2011
Le Thanh Tam (left) and Nguyen Thi Xuan Lan were sentenced to a combined 11 years in jail for torturing their nine-month-old daughter. A court in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on Friday sentenced a couple to a combined 11 years in jail for brutally torturing their nine-month-old daughter. Le Thanh Tam received [...]
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January 23, 2010
Nguyen Hoang An Khoa (L) and his mother An Thi Phuong at Childrenâs Hospital No.1 in Ho Chi Minh City Parents have accused a Ho Chi Minh City hospital of carelessness after their child was left mostly-paralyzed by an intestinal surgery last month. Nguyen Hoang An Khoa, 11 months old, walked and ate normally before [...]
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January 23, 2010
Parents have accused a Ho Chi Minh City hospital of carelessness after their child was left mostly-paralyzed by an intestinal surgery last month. Nguyen Hoang An Khoa, 11 months old, walked and ate normally before he was sent to the Children’s Hospital No.1 in December for treatment of an intestinal occlusion. But when his heart [...]
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December 19, 2009
A group of doctors from the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics have instituted a new project that uses modern technology to treat children with clubfoot. The boy’s leg before being treated.VietNamNet Bridge – A group of doctors from the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics have instituted a new project that uses modern [...]
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December 8, 2009
HCM City-based Children’s Hospital No. 2 on December 7 performed a liver transplant operation for a one-year-old child from HCM City, the seventh operations of its type so far in the country. The operation took 11.5 hours according to Prof. Tran Dong A, the hospital’s director. It was a difficult case as the kid is only [...]
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December 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Experts say bad parenting and the changing face of a modernizing society have created urban Vietnam’s street children. Nguyen Khac Long, 12, now feels safe and secure at the Children’s House in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8, where he can study and interact with his peers. It is a far cry from two [...]
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