Launching a national measles vaccination campaign in March
According to data from the Ministry of Health, before implementing the vaccination of 1 dose of measles vaccine in the Expanded Immunization Program, the measles epidemic situation was still complicated. The number of cases recorded is mainly in the North with the incidence rate of 137.7/100,000 people in 1979 and 125.7/100,000 people in 1983, these are the two peaks of a measles epidemic cycle about 3-4 years apart.
Although in recent years, the vaccination rate has reached over 95%, there were periods before that of less than 90%, leading to a group of un vaccinated and unimmunized children.
In the period of 2020-2023, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the measles vaccination rate has decreased significantly, in many places below 90%, increasing the risk of an outbreak in the period of 2024-2025.
Thanks to vaccination results, the distribution of measles cases by age has changed. Recently, the incidence rate in children under 9 months old has increased, accounting for more than 15%, at times exceeding 20% due to not being vaccinated and having low immunity from mothers.
At the same time, due to the accumulation of unvaccined groups, some epidemics have broken out such as early 2009, late 2013, early 2014, 2019, 2024. See more
Another hospital in Hanoi deploys electronic medical records
Hanoi Children's Hospital has just held a meeting of the Professional Council to assess and decide on the use and storage of electronic medical records to replace paper records.
The professional council has given opinions on the assessment and conclusion of meeting the standards for implementation: Using and storing electronic medical records instead of paper medical records, storing and transmitting medical images instead of printing films and storing testing information instead of printing paper in accordance with current regulations at Hanoi Children's Hospital. See more
The first hospital in Quang Ninh qualified for kidney transplantation
The Ministry of Health has just established a Working Group to assess the conditions for performing the technique of kidney removal and transplantation from living people and brain-dead donors at Vietnam - Sweden Uong Bi Hospital, Quang Ninh.
This is the first provincial hospital nationwide to organize the implementation of multi-organ removal from brain-dead people, thereby saving the lives of 7 other patients in April 2024.
Immediately after this organ removal, the Hospital has developed a project to remove and transplant kidneys from living donors and brain-dead donors, with the goal of being able to implement it right at the unit in the second quarter of 2025. For more than a year, the Hospital has been actively preparing all aspects, ensuring conditions for performing techniques to achieve the highest results. See more
Medical staff sent to school have not yet received training support
On March 16, Quang Tri has just issued a decision to support training costs for 130 officials, however, there are still 63 cases that have not been supported.
In this decision, 130 cadres, civil servants and public employees are supported with funding to attract, train and foster according to the province's policies with a total budget of more than 3.1 billion VND.
Of which, there are 5 cases of masters, residents, and general practitioners recruited to work at public health service units; 44 cases of health service officials sent for postgraduate training; 81 cases of female cadres and civil servants sent for training and fostering.
According to the Department of Health of Quang Tri province, 44 cases of health workers receiving training funding were sent to school from 2022 to 2024.
Currently, the provincial health sector still has 63 cases of health workers sent to school before 2022 who have not been supported with training funding.
In particular, many cases have been "borrowed" training costs for many years, falling into a difficult situation because they had to borrow money to go to school before. See more
