Posts Tagged ‘ The Clinic ’

A humanitarian lesson from Vietnam 

December 12, 2011

  There are lessons to be learned from America’s complex relationship with Vietnam. Should we perceive the continued involvement of Americans with Vietnam years after the unpopular war as a massive collective guilty conscience or simply as a fascination with the culture, or perhaps both? Any way we look at the situation, American interests are [...]

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Hanoi clinic offers first aid training course 

July 16, 2011
Hanoi clinic offers first aid training course 

  Family Medical Practice Hanoi is offering a 6-8 hour first aid training course to help people manage and respond to different types of emergency situations effectively . A press release from the clinic says the course content includes basic child safety, first aid to persons with respiration obstruction (unconscious and conscious), decision making in [...]

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HCMC traditional clinic stopped from fueling fake pregnancy

January 19, 2010
HCMC traditional clinic stopped from fueling fake pregnancy

LookAtVietnam – Health inspectors in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday closed a traditional medicine clinic for selling drugs that allegedly caused women’s bellies to swell as if they were pregnant.  The inspectors found many unlabeled pills in yellow, red and white colors at the clinic on Thich Quang Duc Street in Phu Nhuan District.Tran [...]

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HCMC traditional clinic stopped from fueling fake pregnancy

January 18, 2010
HCMC traditional clinic stopped from fueling fake pregnancy

Health inspectors in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday closed a traditional medicine clinic for selling drugs that allegedly caused women’s bellies to swell as if they were pregnant. The inspectors found many unlabeled pills in yellow, red and white colors at the clinic on Thich Quang Duc Street in Phu Nhuan District.Tran Thi Hanh, [...]

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Unidentified tea allegedly kills three, poison 12

January 8, 2010

Three people have died and other twelve have been critically poisoned after drinking tea made from unidentified leaves and roots in a northern village. Hoang Van Van, head of Tan Phong No.1 Village, said the incident happened at Sunday night when 13 local people gathered at Lo Van Van’s house to help him take care [...]

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Artisans risk injury at work

July 20, 2009
Artisans risk injury at work

LookAtVietnam – Workers at craft villages in the city are at great risk of injury and poor health due to abysmal workplace safety. Despite high numbers of workplace accidents, the situation doesn’t seem to have improved during the past several years. A worker makes rattan products in Ha Nam province. Workers at craft villages in [...]

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Health clinics lack adequate funds, staff

June 5, 2009
Health clinics lack adequate funds, staff

LookAtVietnam – Health clinics in HCM City’s wards and communes have been suffering from a shortage of funds over the last several years, according to local officials. Patients endure cramped conditions at Phu Yen hospital. A lack of funds has led to over-crowding at many hospitals and clinics in HCM City.In the 50sq.m medical clinic [...]

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‘Come and lean on us’

June 1, 2009
‘Come and lean on us’

Dr. Ho Thi Trang examines a homeless boy at the Trieu Phuoc General Clinic in District 11. Homeless children in Ho Chi Minh City now have five medical clinics they can turn to when they are sick. It’s a very wet day at the end of May.A shabbily dressed boy who looks about 11 stands [...]

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Fertility seekers flood Ho Chi Minh City abbey, medical clinic

April 1, 2009
Fertility seekers flood Ho Chi Minh City abbey, medical clinic

A man prays at the abbey, where visitors crowd in day and night, sun or rain Ho Chi Minh City’s Bien Duc Thien Phuoc Abbey is crowded every day with people asking to be cured of their infertility. Couples from as far as the northernmost provinces of Vietnam have been making the journey ever since [...]

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Family doctors still face uphill struggle

March 5, 2009
Family doctors still face uphill struggle

LookAtVietnam – Better family doctor services are seen by some in the healthcare sector as one of the answers to overloaded hospitals and improving public health, but popularising the model across the country faces substantial challenges. A family doctor treats a patient at home.Most Vietnamese do not use family doctors, who are general practitioners that [...]

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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...