Ministry of Health guides salary classification when changing civil servant categories
The Ministry of Health has just responded and informed about regulations and instructions on salary classification when changing the types of health workers.
Pursuant to the provisions of Joint Circular No. 10/2015/TTLT-BYT-BNV dated May 27, 2015 of the Minister of Health and the Minister of Home Affairs stipulating codes and standards for professional titles of doctors, preventive medicine doctors, nurses, and professional titles of Grade IV Physicians (code V. 8:03.07) is applied the salary coefficient of civil servants of type B, from salary coefficient 1.86 to salary coefficient 4.00.
The salary transfer of civil servants is implemented according to the provisions of Circular No. 02/2007/TT-BNV dated May 25, 2007 of the Minister of Home Affairs guiding salary arrangement when upgrading, transferring ranks, and changing types of civil servants and public employees. See more
Continue to deploy free Rota vaccine for children
According to the Ministry of Health's Expanded Immunization Plan, the Rota-ged diarrhea vaccine will be deployed in the National Expanded Immunization Program to vaccinate children for free in 32 provinces from 2024 and expand to 41 provinces in 2025.
The expanded immunization program in our country has deployed 11 types of vaccines for free for children and pregnant women. Thanks to that, Vietnam has paid, eliminated and reduced the incidence and mortality rate due to dangerous infectious diseases in children such as Politics, neonatal tetanus, measles, rubella, diphtheria, whooping cough... contributing to significantly reducing health care costs and improving public health.
Acute diarrhea caused by the Rota virus is a dangerous infectious disease that is transmitted through the digestive tract, causing an epidemic and possibly causing death in children. In Vietnam, Rota virus is the cause of acute diarrhea in 20% to over 50% of children in the period 2016-2023.
It is estimated that the Rota virus causes hundreds of thousands of children to be hospitalized and thousands of children to receive emergency care each year, especially in remote areas, localities that have not yet had access to disease prevention vaccines in the service vaccination.
Currently, Rota vaccine has been domestically produced to ensure supply for the Expanded Immunization Program. See more
Kera vegetable candy contains sweeteners not listed on labels
The National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene testing (Ministry of Health) has announced the initial test results of Kera vegetable candy of Chi Em rot Group Joint Stock Company.
Accordingly, the basic indicators of protein, sugar, fat, and total energy are all consistent with the self-declared version of the product. However, the Food Safety Department (Ministry of Health) requested the National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene testing to conduct additional tests of some other substances and safety indicators.
According to the report of the National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene testing, the indicators of protein, sugar, fat and total energy content are all consistent with the product's announcement, and the safety indicators for microorganisms, fungi, heavy metals... have not detected any violations or are within the permitted limits.
However, the Institute also discovered that the product contained Sorbitol, a sweetener, with a content of 33.4 g/100g, but was not listed on the product label as prescribed.
The Food Safety Department has sent an official dispatch requesting the Department of Food Safety of Ho Chi Minh City and the Department of Health of Dak Lak to handle violations in accordance with legal regulations. See more
2,639 people in Cao Bang suffered from measles in 3 months
On March 20, information from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) of Cao Bang province said that from the beginning of 2025 to now, the whole province has recorded 2,639 cases of Rubella measles, of which 15 cases have positive test results.
The above figures were recorded in 7/10 localities in the province and district, including Bao Lam 1,938 cases; Bao Lac 480 cases; Ha Quang 128 cases; Nguyen Binh 51 cases; Cao Bang city 38 cases; Hoa An 3 cases; Quang Hoa 1 case.
Measles cases are currently being treated at local health centers and general hospitals. There are currently 2,494 cases recovered.
According to the assessment of specialized agencies, the age of measles is mainly from 1 to 5 years old, accounting for 60.07%; children from 6 to 10 years old account for 20.3%. See more
