Trần Nhật Giáp, an intern at central Hà Tĩnh Province’s General Hospital, was attacked by the relative of a patient. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Ngà Viet Nam News H À NỘI — The Ministry of Health has requested the Ministry of Public Security to send police to guard hospitals to prevent violent attacks on doctors and medical staff. The decision was taken on April 17 after a series of violent attacks on doctors and medical staff in recent days has come to light . On April 13, the father of a seven-year-old patient punched a doctor in the face at Hà Nội’s Saint Paul Hospital. On February 25, a group of doctors in Bố Trạch District’s General Hospital in central Quảng Bình Province were physically abused by gangsters after the doctors failed to save two of their friends who died in a road accident. The two patients had passed away before they arrived at … [Read more...] about Health ministry ask police to guard hospitals
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Vietnamese inventor blazing a trail in the land of the rising sun
Trần Ngọc Phúc, the founder of the medical equipment company, Metran, based in Japan, checks up on the ventilators. — VNA/VNS Photo Thành Hữu Viet Nam News by Nguyễn Tuyến TOKYO, Japan — To make a name for oneself in a foreign country is no mean feat, but to do that in Japan, that too in the early seventies and eighties, takes extraordinary resolve and perseverance, qualities that Trần Ngọc Phúc has displayed in ample measure. The recently elected chairman of the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Japan has charted a course barely walked in the country of the rising sun. Among all the indelible memories he has gathered over decades of living and working in Japan are the first days of disorientation and the struggle to set up a company of his own, Phúc told the Vietnam News Agency. With the 50s and 60s of the 20th century being a tumultuous era in Vietnamese history, Phúc’s family endured their fair share of hardship like most of their brethren. And one thing that … [Read more...] about Vietnamese inventor blazing a trail in the land of the rising sun
Vietnamese social entrepreneur helps save newborns at lowcost
Business leaders share views at WEF ASEAN Successful WEF on ASEAN concludes Deputy PM calls on young Vietnamese people to be less obedient Suu Kyi pleased with Myanmar’s progress PM meets with multinational corporations MTTS’s warmer machine for premature or sick newborns. Photo Courtersy of Trang Tuyết Ngà. Viet Nam News By Thu Vân The image of a white cloth covering dead newborn babies were shocking and vivid to Trang Tuyết Ngà. Shortly after returning from her studies in Denmark in 2003, Nga started to work for a U.S-based medical organisation in Hà Nội that connected doctors and foreign health care equipment designers. For her work Ngà went to the National Paediatrics Hospital occasionally, and very often she was left disturbed. “There were infants who died because they had difficulties breathing, or because they were born immature, and the hospital didn’t have enough good medical equipment to keep them alive,” Ngà said. Imported … [Read more...] about Vietnamese social entrepreneur helps save newborns at lowcost