May 28, 2011
Two more children died from hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) this week in Ho Chi Minh, bringing this year’s HFMD death toll in the city to 11, the Health Department announced Tuesday. Last year, the disease took only one life in the city. All HFMD fatalities are children below five years old, according [...]
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July 9, 2009
Thailand’s Bangkok city has 5000 food safety inspectors while Vietnam’s largest city — HCM City – has only four inspectors, said the HCM City Health Department chief, to explain the poor food hygiene and safety control situation in the city. Lack of staff, it is hard for HCM City to control food hygiene and safety. Chau [...]
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June 8, 2009
Pham Thi Thom of Da Phuoc Commune in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs Binh Chanh District shows a sticky cardboard sheet covered in dead flies Swarms of flies have descended on three communes in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs Binh Chanh District in the past month and the steps taken to eliminate them have had little effect. [...]
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April 16, 2009
Food stalls at a market in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City has set up teams of health inspectors to check as many food producers, merchants and vendors as possible in the monthlong national food safety campaign that started Wednesday. HCMC Peopleâs Committee Vice Chairman Nguyen Thanh Tai warned that stiff penalties [...]
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March 31, 2009
LookAtVietnam – At least 11 water producers in HCMC must close their doors after health inspectors discovered their products failed to meet the hygiene standard, according to HCMC’s Health Department. “Some producers have the system but do not use it as a way to reduce costs. That proves lack of responsibility in quality commitment. They [...]
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March 30, 2009
While the number of unlicensed markets is on the rise in HCM City, teams of market inspectors still lack staff and adequate funding to carry out enough food safety and hygiene checks across the city.LookAtVietnam – The HCM city’s Health Department is short of personnel and capital to adequately inspect facilities for food safety and [...]
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March 28, 2009
An outdoor eatery on a sidewalk in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 1. The responsible authorities of Ho Chi Minh City are not equipped with the managerial and technical skills to tackle the food safety and hygiene problem in the city, officials admitted at a meeting on Thursday. The meeting was called by the Culture-Society [...]
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March 26, 2009
While samples taken from two of Hanoiâs water plants contain high levels of ammonia, the concentrations of other potentially harmful substances are within the safety zone, the cityâs health department said. Water from the Ha Dinh and Phap Van plants has 6 to 18 times the Ministry of Healthâs regulated ammonia level of 1.5 milligrams [...]
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March 26, 2009
Workers hospitalized in a major food poisoning case in HCMC recently Hundreds of thousands of workers in the city are being fed unsafe and nutrient-deficient food by their employers and this has long-term health implications, Ho Chi Minh City legislators said Wednesday. Several deputies of the city Peopleâs Council railed against the poor quality of [...]
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March 26, 2009
A nurse tends to a TB patient at a tuberculosis and lung diseases hospital in Vietnam. Tuberculosis will continue to spread if the public and private health sectors in Ho Chi Minh City do not lift their game. There are more than 22,000 cases of tuberculosis or other infectious lung ailments in the city, yet [...]
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