Medical

4 medical facilities in Ho Chi Minh City suspend health insurance medical examination and treatment contracts

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Recently, Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance announced the termination of health insurance examination and treatment contracts with a number of medical facilities in the area.

New seasons warn of increased risk of pneumonia in children due to respiratory diseases

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Respiratory diseases that are not treated promptly can lead to more serious complications such as pneumonia and bronchitis.

Traffic accident in Gia Lai leaves 6 people in a family hospitalized

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Gia Lai - The farm vehicle had an accident while carrying 6 people in the same family to the coffee harvesting plantation.

New technique at Cho Ray helps kidney transplant patients overcome both-sided breast cancer

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Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, has just successfully treated patient N.T.H. (40 years old, Tay Ninh), who had a kidney transplant, now has early stage both-sided breast cancer.

Saving a patient who had a kidney transplant but had cancer on both breast

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HCMC - On November 8, Cho Ray Hospital said that it had coordinated many new methods and techniques to successfully treat patients who had undergone kidney transplants with breast cancer on both sides.

Accidentally drinking Methadone, a 9-year-old boy in Hung Yen escaped death

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Hung Yen - A 9-year-old child who accidentally drank Methadone fell into a deep coma and respiratory failure and was saved by Thai Binh Children's Hospital thanks to intensive treatment.

paper medical records will be replaced by electronic medical records from October 2025

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The health sector aims to complete the implementation of electronic medical records by October 2025.

Can Tho closely monitors dengue fever epidemic, minimizes number of cases

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Can Tho - The City People's Committee has issued an Official Dispatch directing units to urgently deploy effective measures to prevent and control dengue fever.

Timely treatment of victims in the passenger bus overturning accident in Dak Lak

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Dak Lak - The victims of the passenger bus overturning accident were taken to a medical facility for timely treatment, no one was in danger of their lives.

The Ministry of Health responds to the change of job positions for health station officials

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The Ministry of Health has just responded and provided information on job transfer if it meets the standards of civil servants working at commune health stations.

Hanoi monitors Chikungunya at Noi Bai International Border Gate, tests suspected cases

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Hanoi - The City People's Committee requested the Department of Health and relevant agencies to strengthen prevention and control of Chikungunya.

The Ministry of Health responds to the review of the transfer of professional titles of commune health station officials

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The Ministry of Health has just responded and provided information on the standards for considering the transfer of professional titles of health workers at health stations.

Baby born with a returned cyst that is destroying the mother's necrotic duct

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Quang Tri - The baby was born at the same time that the doctor discovered the mother's necrotizing torticollis.

Major changes in health insurance, outpatients on the other side no longer have to pay all costs themselves

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The new points stipulated in Decree 188 have significantly expanded the rights of people going for health insurance examination and treatment.

Health insurance covers both outpatient examinations at the other level and service examinations upon request

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New regulations on health insurance payment levels when examining and treating outpatients and according to the requirement to significantly expand the rights of health insurance participants.

New regulations on the value of health insurance cards for children and students

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Vietnam Social Insurance issues new guidelines on the validity period of health insurance cards for children, students and pupils to ensure health care benefits.

13-month-old boy dies in Tay Ninh, 2 nurses are considered for disciplinary action

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Tay Ninh - Regarding the case of a 13-month-old boy who died while being transferred to a hospital, the hospital admitted mistakes and considered disciplining the two nurses.

81-year-old woman has a foreign object removed from the airway at Hai Duong Lung Hospital, Hai Phong City

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Hai Phong - An 81-year-old woman with a long cough was discovered by doctors and a foreign object in her bronchi was removed using modern endoscopy techniques.

Dong Thap deploys a series of measures to prevent and control infectious diseases

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Dong Thap - The Provincial People's Committee requests units to proactively control, not to let epidemics and food poisoning occur, affecting people's health.

Principles of eating watermelon that are good for the thyroid

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The thyroid is an important hormonal gland, regulating metabolism, body heat and energy.