Hospital fees for having a baby

Lê Minh Hiển gives a gift to a poor little girl in Chợ Rẫy Hospital. — Photo hiec.org.vn Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Lê Minh Hiển, head of Community Service Office in HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital, wakes up early every weekend and goes to nearby provinces to give free screenings to poor and underprivileged children. Hiển has spent a decade giving free surgery to more than 10,000 poor patients, including many children with congenital heart defects and cleft palate, using donation money which has now reached VNĐ80 billion (US$3.4 million). He said after dozens of his trips to provinces, including Bến Tre, Trà Vinh and Hậu Giang, the thing that haunted him most was the eyes of children born in poverty and disease, he was quoted by the Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper as saying. “The ill children were born while their parents struggle to make a living,” he said, adding that some parents did not even have enough rice to feed their babies.. Hiển said he once found a 12-year-old-girl … [Read more...] about Chợ Rẫy Hospital doctor devotes self to the poor

Counselling on prenatal and postnatal screening is provided to a pregnant woman. — VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Prenatal and postnatal screening programmes have helped detect health problems of infants in a timely manner, a hospital doctor said at a conference held in HCM City on Thursday. Dr Nguyễn Khắc Hân Hoan of Từ Dũ Hospital said that a 5-year-old girl, for example, was now healthy and attending kindergarten thanks to timely treatment of congenital hypothyroidism, which affects one of 3,000-4,000 newborns worldwide. Congenital hypothyroidism results from an absent or underdeveloped thyroid gland or one that has developed but cannot make thyroid hormone, according to the British Thyroid Foundation. Babies with CHT cannot produce enough thyroid hormone for the body’s needs. Dr Hoan said that if the girl had not been treated, she would have had poor growth, low energy and other health problems. In 2016, nearly 20 infants at Từ Dũ Hospital were … [Read more...] about Screenings help infants, mothers

Doctors in hospitals of HCM City have warned of an increase in diseases caused by streptococus pneumoniae bacteria, reported Tin Tức (News) online newspapers. — Photo baotintuc.vn HÀ NỘI — Doctors in hospitals of HCM City have warned of an increase in diseases caused by streptococus pneumoniae bacteria, reported Tin Tức (News) online newspapers. The bacteria causes many serious diseases in both children and adults, and leaves dangerous complications, even death, if patients are not given proper treatment. Since the beginning of the year, many children have been hospitalised with diseases of pneumonia and meningitis caused by streptococus pneumoniae. Dr. Châu Việt Cường, head of Infectious Department of Children’s Hospital 2 told the paper: “Since early this year, the hospital had received two patients with purulent meningitis, one of whom was nine-month baby hospitalised in serious condition who died after 12 hours.” Meanwhile, in the HCM City Hospital of … [Read more...] about Children at risk for pneumonia, meningitis