December 19, 2011
Hua Cam Tu, a 37-year-old woman who had both her kidneys removed by doctors without her permission, is being treated at the Can Tho General Hospital. A Mekong Delta hospital said Thursday it would provide free dialysis treatment to a patient whose health is getting worse after doctors removed both two kidneys without her consent, the Nguoi [...]
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October 21, 2011
The conjoined twins are put under special treatment at the Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: Tuoi Tre newspaper) It is rather risky to conduct a surgery to separate the conjoined twins who were initially dubbed as “two-headed baby girl,” doctors of Ho Chi Minh City-based Children’s Hospital 1 told Thanh Nien. [...]
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August 28, 2011
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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August 17, 2011
Dr Ngo Duy Hoan, who was stabbed by Nguyen Van Dung, has recovered. (Photo: VnExpress) Police in the northern province of Thai Binh arrested a young man Tuesday for fatally stabbing a doctor, and injuring another, after his brother was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Nguyen Van Dung, 18, of Vu Thu District was [...]
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August 8, 2011
A baby with cataract as a rubella syndrome at the Central Ob-Gyn Hospital in Hanoi. A woman in northern Vietnam spent three years undergoing treatment for infertility, and then had to have an abortion in the 12th week of her pregnancy after she caught the Rubella virus.  The woman is one of more than 1,000 [...]
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June 30, 2011
Doctors from the HCMC Oncology Hospital examine Hai's tumor at his home in Dalat on June 24, 2011. A Ho Chi Minh City hospital said Monday at least three surgeries must be conducted to remove an 80-kilogram tumor on a Dalat man, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. Doctors from the HCMC Oncology Hospital said they are [...]
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August 21, 2009
South Africa’s Caster Semenya celebrates winning the women’s 800m final race of the 2009 IAAF Athletics World Championships on August 19 in Berlin South Africa’s newly-crowned women’s 800 meters world champion Caster Semenya must undergo a gender test, the sport’s governing body the IAAF announced on Wednesday. The 18-year-old has been a revelation this year [...]
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July 31, 2009
Doctors at a Hanoi hospital have been accused of cashing in by forcing cancer patients to use expensive equipment rather than the facilities their insurance policies allow them to use for free. LookAtVietnam – Doctors at a Hanoi hospital have been accused of cashing in by forcing cancer patients to use expensive equipment rather than [...]
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July 30, 2009
Doctors at a Hanoi hospital have been accused of cashing in by forcing cancer patients to use expensive equipment rather than the facilities their insurance policies allow them to use for free. In 2000, K Hospital, or the National Cancer Institute, bought radiation equipment for US$1.4 million and has spent around $60,000 a year since [...]
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May 18, 2009
People queue up at 3 a.m. outside the Medical University Hospital in HCMC to be able to take the small numbers for a check-up. Most patients coming for a check-up at hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have to arrive at night and wait until noon the next day unless they are willing to pay [...]
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