Hanoi recorded nearly 200 cases of measles, one child died
According to the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (CDC), in the past week (from March 14 to March 21), the whole city recorded 182 cases of measles in 26 districts, 88 communes, wards and towns; 1 death.
Some areas recorded many patients such as Nam Tu Liem district (42); Hoang Mai (26); Ha Dong, Thanh Xuan (3); Hoan Kiem 11.; Tay Ho (10).
The death rate is young, born in 2021 (44 months old) in Nam Tu Liem, with a history of not being vaccinated against measles. The disease started on March 10, 2025 (ature on March); on March 17, the child showed signs of severe shortness of breath and was taken by his family to the National Children's Hospital for treatment.
The patient's condition became serious, he was actively treated ( ventilated, blood filter, ECMO), his condition did not improve, and died on March 18, 2025 with a diagnosis of non-healing shock, multiple organ failure, ARDS-storm cytokine/measles pneumonia.
Accumulated from 2025 to present, the city recorded 1,058 measles cases in 30/30 districts, towns and cities, 1 death, an increase compared to the same period in 2024. See more
Hai Duong City completes measles vaccination in March
In the face of the complicated and unpredictable developments of the infectious disease situation, especially measles, the People's Committee of Hai Duong City issued an official dispatch on accelerating the vaccination of measles vaccination in the area, to be completed in March 2025.
The People's Committee of Hai Duong City requires the City Health Center; wards and communes to urgently review and synthesize data on young people of all ages; develop plans and scenarios to mobilize enough medical human resources, funding, supplies, equipment, and vaccines to speed up the vaccination progress; effectively implement an expanded immunization program, make-up vaccinations, and get-istic-istic-to-man-man-man-man-the-man vaccinations; implement admission and treatment of patients with measles and suspected measles rash fever, control cross-infection in medical facilities according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health. See more
Another hospital in Quang Ninh qualified for kidney transplantation
On March 22, in Ha Long City, a working group of the Ministry of Health conducted an appraisal of the conditions for the technique of removing and grafting kidneys from living people and brain-dead donors at Quang Ninh General Hospital.
The working group was led by Director of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management, Ha Anh Duc.
The working group highly appreciated the efforts of Quang Ninh General Hospital in implementing organ transplant techniques right at the facility. Affirming that the hospital fully meets the conditions to perform the technique of kidney removal and transplantation from living people and brain-dead donors.
Based on practical experience in the field of organ transplantation, the working group contributed many professional opinions to optimize the implementation process at the hospital.
As a Grade I general hospital under the Quang Ninh Department of Health, the Provincial General Hospital has mastered 100% of the techniques of a Grade I hospital, of which 63% of the techniques are at the Central level. See more
Epidemiological emergency care for the united uterus, keeping the ovaries intact
Le Van Viet Hospital successfully operated on an extra-uternum fetal disease in the ovaries.
Doctor Le Dang Dai - Deputy Head of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Le Van Viet Hospital, said: "patient Nguyen Thi T.H (born in 1993, residing in Thu Duc City) came to see a doctor with frequent abdominal pain, a month of delay in menstruation, and had given birth to two children. The patient was given an ultrasound, and an extra-uternum fetus was detected in the right ovarian region, and the fetus was not recorded in the uterus."
After consultation, the doctors performed endoscopic surgery, removed the placenta from the right ovary and burned the bloody stasis. After surgery, the patient was stable and discharged after 5 days, on March 18. See more
