(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The World Health Organization (WHO) launched its “ First Embrace” campaign in Vietnam on July 14, highlighting simple steps that will save thousands of newborn lives and prevent hundreds of thousands of complications each year from unsafe or outdated practices in newborn care in the country.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - HCM City has been successful in controlling gender imbalance at birth with a sex ratio of 106 to107 boys per 100 girls a year in the last four years, according to the city's Family Planning and Population Division.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - About 56,173 Vietnamese labourers, including 16,942 women, worked overseas in the first six months of the year, a 1.7 per cent increase compared with the same period last year.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The number of healthcare insurance holders in the country has thus far reached 64.6 million, accounting for 71.4 per cent of the total population, the Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a teleconference last week.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Hanoi’s health sector said that it will add more than one thousands doctors to the municipal health worker contingent to achieve the number of doctors the city needs to provide properly qualified health services for its citizens.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The southern metropolis Ho Chi Minh City has issued a Plan of Action as prep against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) threat.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The fast development of livestock farms may have produced a lot of food, but they are also causing environmental pollution and health risks in rural areas, according to officials

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - A Health Ministry delegation led by Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien inspected the prevention efforts for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Tan Son Nhat International Airport .

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - There was a shortage of imported vaccines in Vietnam's immunisation services when there was an outbreak of disease, a conference was told in Hanoi last week.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Tran Dac Phu, head of the Preventive Medicine Department, announced a range of activities in response to ASEAN Dengue Day (June 15), at a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on June 12.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The HCM City Centre for International Health Quarantine has put in place all preventive measures to keep out Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, a top city health official said.