(ĐN)- Dong Nai targets to raise its health insurance coverage rate to 96 percent by 2025. According to the report, the health insurance coverage rate increased from 53 percent in 2009 to 93 percent in 2023.
Vietnam’s pharmaceutical industry is expected to be on par with that of advanced countries in the region, and ensure people’s access to drugs at affordable prices, according to a freshly-approved strategy for the development of Vietnam’s pharmaceutical sector by 2030 with a vision towards 2045.
(ĐN)- Over the past four months, Dong Nai Department for Population- Family Planning has provided gifts, free medical checks-up and medicines totaling over VND1.3 billion to more than 14,100 elderly people across the province.
(ĐN) - Long Khanh Regional General Hospital has received the Golden Angels Award, presented by the World Stroke Organization (WSO) Angels Awards in recognition of improvements in its stroke care quality.
(ĐN) - On July 27 and 28, Vedan Vietnam in cooperation with Taiwan's hospital provided free medical check-ups and medicines to over 1,200 poor residents and ethnic minority people in Trang Bom and Xuan Loc districts.
The third trial of the vaccine against hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) caused by the Non-Mouse-Adapted Enterovirus 71 (EV71) strain has been completed and is waiting for the Ministry of Health's approval, said Vice Director of Clinical Research Unit of Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh city Nguyen Trong Toan.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for countries to proactively boost vaccine manufacturing capacity and Vietnam is not an exception, according to experts.
(ĐN)- Dong Nai saw a year-on-year sharp decrease in cases of dengue fever and foot-hand-mouth disease (HFMD), according to the provincial Health Department.
Four COVID-19 patients have died of the coronavirus and underlying illnesses in Vietnam during the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said in its coronavirus update on May 2.
The Ministry of Health on April 12 sent an urgent dispatch on strengthening the prevention and control of COVID-19 to the People's Committees of all 63 provinces and centrally-run cities.
Policy advocacy will be promoted, along with efforts to call for financial and human resources for the prevention and control of malaria, parasitic and insect-transmitted diseases to successfully eliminate malaria in Vietnam by 2030, heard a conference held by the Ministry of Health and PATH, a global non-profit organisation on public health, in Hanoi on March 22.
The Ministry of Health and AstraZeneca Vietnam on March 8 signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation under which they will work with partners to promote existing and new programmes to improve public awareness of diseases, prevention, and early detection.