Code red hospital procedures

Teenagers between 14 and 16 will bear criminal liability for very serious crimes under amendments and supplements to the 2015 Penal Code adopted by the parliament yesterday. — VNA/VNS Photo An Đăng HÀ NỘI – Teenagers between 14 and 16 will bear criminal liability for very serious crimes under amendments and supplements to the 2015 Penal Code adopted by the parliament yesterday. The National Assembly approved amendments and supplements to some articles of the 2015 Penal Code with 434 deputies, or 88.39 per cent, voting yes. Under the amended law, persons aged 14 to 16 will have to bear penal liability for very serious crimes or extremely serious crimes of intentionally inflicting injury or causing harm to the health of other persons, rape and kidnapping in order to appropriate property. People in this age group will not be charged with criminal liability for less serious or serious crimes related to the three charges. The law also narrows down the scale for penal liability … [Read more...] about NA adopts changes to 2015 Penal Code

The Ninh Thuận Province General Hospital yesterday opened a cardio-vascular intervention unit for specialised cardiac monitoring and procedures. Viet Nam News HCM CITY — The Ninh Thuận Province General Hospital yesterday opened a cardio-vascular intervention unit for specialised cardiac monitoring and procedures. It benefited from transfer of medical techniques by the HCM City University Medical Centre as part of the Ministry of Health’s satellite hospital project in the last two years. In the beginning it would perform coronary interventions with technical assistance from the HCM City hospital, Thái Phương Phiên, its director, said. It would later perform advanced procedures to bring down the rate of transfer to higher-level hospitals, he said. Assoc Prof Trương Quang Bình, director of the city hospital’s cardiovascular centre, said doctors in the unit would be trained in minimally invasive surgical procedures to help local patients with heart diseases benefit from … [Read more...] about Ninh Thuận hospital sets up specialised heart unit

Embryologists at the Mỹ Đức General Hospital’s assisted reproductive technology unit. It is the first private fertility clinic certified by the Ministry of Health for surrogacy procedures for humanitarian purposes. — Photo myduchospital.vn Viet Nam News HCM CITY — The Ministry of Health has allowed HCM City-based Mỹ Đức General Hospial to carry out surrogate pregnancies for humanitarian purposes. It is the country’s first private fertility clinic certified by the Ministry of Health for surrogacy procedures for humanitarian purposes. Surrogacy is a form of assisted reproductive technology in which an embryo is created using an egg and sperm produced by a couple and is transferred into the surrogate’s uterus. The regulation allowing surrogacy in Việt Nam is part of the revised Law on Marriage and Family that came into force in 2015. In the first period, the only three public hospitals assigned by the ministry to carry out surrogacy procedures for humanitarian … [Read more...] about Private hospital allowed to offer surrogacy service

Red tape has dragged out the issuance of land use certificates in HCM City, causing more than 100,000 cases to remain on the shelves, gathering dust.— Photo thanhnien.vn HCM CITY — Red tape has dragged out the issuance of land use certificates in HCM City , causing more than 100,000 cases to remain on the shelves, gathering dust. The land use certificate, commonly known as the red book, is the only authorised document proving the rights of a citizen to build house on or to sell a land lot. But the latest statistics from the city Land Registry Office (LOR) shows that the files of 109,251 land lots whose owners have applied for the red book have fallen into the backlog. HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment Director Nguyễn Toàn Thắng acknowledged the delays, telling the Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper that the procedure in which district-level LORs have to send all the completed certificates up to the department for seal of … [Read more...] about Red tape causes big red book backlog

Patients use chairs for IV procedures at Chợ Rẫy Hospital. — Photo Courtesy of the Chợ Rẫy Hospital Viet Nam News HCM CITY — A unit for out-patient cancer treatment at Chợ Rẫy Hospital, the largest public hospital in southern Việt Nam, has been given 85 chairs for intravenous procedures related to cancer treatment which should help patients feel more comfortable during the process. Associate Professor Dr Nguyễn Trường Sơn, the hospital’s head, said that the hospital in 2012 set up the special unit to reduce the overcrowding of patients staying at the hospital to receive chemotherapy, because the hospital is often the first choice for patients with serious diseases in the southern region. The unit treats nearly 11,000 people on an out-patient basis at the hospital’s Hematology and Oncology Ward every year. The chairs were presented by Johnson & Johnson Company. — VNS … [Read more...] about Chợ Rẫy Hospital given 85 chairs for IV treatment by J&J

Volunteers help the elderly cross the streets of Hà Nội. --VNA/VNS Photo Doãn Tấn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Is there a “code of conduct” for Hanoians? The question seems strange to many. “I’ve never heard of such a thing,” said Phạm Văn Thắng, who has lived in Hà Nội for almost 80 years. But Thắng thinks a code of conduct is a good idea for Hanoians. "We often witness bad behaviour - like students fighting, smoking or drinking alcohol and young people elbowing others out when standing in a queue, refusing to give up their seats to senior citizens, children and people with disabilities - so creating a code of conduct (CoC) for Hanoians is necessary to adjust their manners," Thắng said. Nguyễn Khắc Lợi, deputy head of Hà Nội’s Department of Culture and Sports, said the Code is a basis for advocacy, guiding and educating people to live and behave in accordance with the norms of society. The department used crowded places - such as residential areas, hospitals, offices, … [Read more...] about Why Hanoians need a ’Code of Conduct’

Lê Kim Bá Liêm, obstetrician at Hùng Vương Hospital and the leader of its rapid response team, yesterday examined the patient who was saved thanks to the inter-hospital red alert system in HCM City. — VNS Photo Thu Hằng Viet Nam News HCM CITY— Obstetricians at Hùng Vương Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital in HCM City on Monday saved the life of a 27-year-old woman suffering from uterine inversion, a rare and fatal childbirth complication, thanks to the inter-hospital red alert. Nguyễn Thọ Loan was admitted to the Nhà Bè District Hospital, where she delivered a 3.4kg baby boy, but the placenta did not separate normally. Doctors there manually removed the placenta, but their efforts to separate and expel it from the uterus failed. After 30 minutes the mother developed life-threatening bleeding and went into shock. Doctors had to activate the inter-hospital red alert to seek professional assistance. Fifteen minutes later Hùng Vương Hospital’s rapid response … [Read more...] about HCM City’s inter-hospital red alert saves young woman

Ba Vì Hospital where two babies were switched at birth. – photo baotintuc.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The Health Department in Hà Nội has asked hospitals in the city to review the process of managing new-born babies including caring, bathing and handing them to parents after a case of parents receiving the wrong babies was discovered at Ba Vì District’s hospital. Hà Nội Obstetrics Hospital was asked to organise training courses and monitor the process at the obstetric departments of other city hospitals. Previously, the Ministry of Health requested the municipal Health Department to issue harsh penalties to medical workers involved with the six-year-old case of babies being switched at birth at Ba Vì Hospital. The mothers in this particular case are Phùng Thị Thu Hiền from Vân Trai Village of Tây Đằng Commune, and Vũ Thị Hương residing in Phú Mỹ Village of the district’s Phú Sơn Commune. On November 1, 2012, the two pregnant women were admitted to the hospital. The … [Read more...] about Hospitals to review procedures after baby-switching incident

Elderly patients wait for examinations in a hospital hall. Long queues are common at public hospitals. — VNA/VNS Photo Dương Ngọc Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – Leaving home in northern mountainous Lào Cai Province at 6:30 in the morning to go to Hà Nội for a health check-up, Mai Hương and her daughter were able to return the same afternoon, much sooner than she had imagined. Hương had decided to have her daughter’s knee injury checked out at Việt Đức hospital in the capital city. Hương thought they would need to stay in Hà Nội for at least two days due to long wait times for check-ups at hospitals in big cities. “It takes me just three hours to go from Lào Cai to Hà Nội,” she told Sức khỏe & Đời sống (Health and Life) Newspaper. “But what worried me most was the waiting time for registration to see doctors.” “I planned to go to Hà Nội one day earlier, rent a house near the hospital and wake up early the next morning to stand in the queue at the hospital register for a … [Read more...] about Registration hotlines reduce waiting time at hospitals

HCM CITY — Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital’s cardiac surgery ward have begun using a less invasive surgical technique to treat patients with aortic disease. The procedure avoids open-chest surgery, said Dr Nguyễn Thái An, head of the ward. Smaller incisions are made during the procedure, resulting in less bleeding, fewer post-surgery infections and complications, and less pain. Noticeable cosmetic improvements were also among the procedure’s benefits, An said. The faster recovery time helped patients save on treatment costs. Three months ago, doctors began using the surgical technique on certain patients. This comes as Việt Nam sees an increase in the number of patients with heart problems. Fifteen patients with valve problems have undergone the surgery, An said, adding that patients with congenital heart disease could also benefit from it. — VNS … [Read more...] about Hospital uses new surgical technique