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All staff and passengers at Miền Đông Bus Station in Bình Thạnh District are asked to fill out health declaration forms and give samples for coronavirus testing. VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Linh-Phú Đạt HCM CITY — HCM City is resuming the use of university dormitories as quarantine facilities along with 52 other quarantine areas, with a total of 4,500 beds in hospitals and districts, according to the city Department of Health. The quarantine facilities at Việt Nam National University-HCM City and HCM City National Academy of Politics in Thủ Đức District, and HCM City University of Foreign Languages- Information Technology in Hóc Môn District, house a total of 10,000 people. Speaking at an online meeting with the Government held on Monday, Nguyễn Thành Phong, chairman of the city People’s Committee, said these facilities were ready to admit people designated for isolation because they were related to COVID-19 patients. The city also has 24 hotels used as quarantine … [Read more...] about HCM City uses university dormitories as quarantine facilities

A mother donates milk at Việt Nam’s first human milk bank in central Đà Nẵng City. — Photo thanhnien.vn Viet Nam News ĐÀ NẴNG — Some 136 at-risk babies have received milk over two months from 46 donor mothers from the country’s first human milk bank at the Đà Nẵng Hospital for Women and Children. International and Vietnamese experts on breastfeeding, newborn care and human milk banks heard this at a workshop held today in central Đà Nẵng City, organised to learn more about the establishment of the country’s first human milk bank. At the event, hospital representatives shared initial achievements and challenges of the milk bank and the role of early essential newborn care in ensuring there are enough milk donors to feed all infants in need of human milk. Since 2015, the Đà Nẵng Department of Health and the Đà Nẵng Hospital for Women and Children have been working with PATH and Alive & Thrive to highlight the importance of human milk and the ability of human milk … [Read more...] about VN’s first human milk bank benefits at-risk babies

Hà Nội’s Department of Health has officially provided comprehensive information about the delivery of two new-borns to the wrong parents at Ba Vì District’s General Hospital six years ago, a case which has drawn public attention in recent days.— Photo soha.vn HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội’s Department of Health has officially provided comprehensive information about the delivery of two new-borns to the wrong parents at Ba Vì District’s General Hospital six years ago, a case which has drawn public attention in recent days. On July 11, the Ministry of Health received a letter from Phùng Giang Sơn, a resident of Ba Vì District, to complain about the error of Ba Vì General Hospital, which had given him the wrong baby in 2012. In the letter, Sơn said his wife, Phùng Thị Thu Hiền, gave birth on November 1, 2012 at the hospital. When receiving the new-born, he and his wife were suspicious because the baby wore a diaper different from the one they had seen him before. However, the doctors insisted … [Read more...] about Department of Health supplies information about switched-at-birth babies

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

Children and their parents attend the ceremony celebration of 1,000 babies being born with in-vitro fertilisation in the Huế Central General Hospital. — VNA/VNS Photo Mai Trang Viet Nam News THỪA THIÊN-HUẾ — A total of 1,000 babies have been born by the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) method at Huế Central General Hospital, associate professor Nguyễn Duy Thăng, deputy director of the hospital, said. The first six babies were born in July 2008, marking the success of this treatment at the hospital. Since then, the hospital had applied different important techniques to the treatment, Thăng said. The rate of success of IVF at the hospital is some 35-40 per cent. Legal regulations on surrogacy were approved in 2015, allowing three hospitals in the country to use the method, including Huế Central General Hospital. The first baby born via surrogacy was delivered on July 28, 2016, and weighed 3.5kg. Subsequently, three more babies were born in healthy condition via … [Read more...] about 1,000 babies born by IVF at Huế Hospital

The damage caused by the fire on September 17 near the National Children’s Hospital in Hà Nôi. — VNA/VNS Photo Trọng Đạt Viet Nam News The fire broke out at about 5pm due to a suspected electrical fault on a circuit between the first and second floors of a rental house owned by Nguyễn Thế Hiệp, 71 years old. The fire spread quickly, damaging 20 houses and affecting 99 people. On September 21, two skulls were found under a collapsed iron frame beneath the rubble. On Monday this week, police confirmed the victims were a couple who rented a room from Hiệp so they could be close to their sick baby who is being treated at the National Children’s Hospital. Hiệp has been renting out cheap rooms for patients and caregivers for 20 years for about VNĐ15,000 (US$0.64) per night. Local authorities have donated VNĐ263 million ($11,300 ) to families hit by the fire and VNĐ96 million ($4,100) to the next of kin. The baby who lost her parents is still being treated at the hospital. Her … [Read more...] about Police investigate fire near National Children’s Hospital

A Tibetan Mastiff.— Illustrative photo. Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — An eight-month old baby girl has died two hours after being bitten by a 40-kg Tibetan Mastiff dog on Thursday afternoon at a home on Hà Nội’s Đội Cấn Street. The dog was raised as a family pet. The incident occurred when the baby’s mother was cleaning and the baby was playing nearby. Without warning, the dog attacked the infant. The mother tried to stop the dog but failed. The baby was taken to the Việt Nam – Germany Hospital in critical condition, the Voice of Việt Nam (VoV) online newspaper reported. Lê Việt Khánh, deputy head of the hospital’s Gastrointestinal Emergencies Department said the child was pale and suffering severe blood loss when she was hospitalised. She also had multiple head injuries. “At that time, we already recorded her blood pressure at zero without feeling her blood vessels,” he said. After trying for two hours, doctors failed to save the child. Khánh added that families should … [Read more...] about Tibetan Mastiff kills eight-month baby in 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. — 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

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

A mother takes care of her baby at Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City. All public hospitals in HCM City plan to implement financial and managerial autonomy from October 1. — VNA/VNS Photo An Hiếu Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Public hospitals in HCM City will have to implement financial and managerial autonomy from October 1, but are facing many challenges in order to ensure successful operations according to the new model. Financial autonomy is designed to help reduce State expenditures so that funds can be diverted to preventive medicine and targeted to community-care programmes. Reduced State spending will also allow the State to pay for more health insurance cards for the poor, including those near the poverty line and welfare recipients. Although hospitals are expected to become a high-quality service industry and will no longer be overloaded if they have more funding, some hospitals worry about financial shortages if the model is widely applied. The newly built Củ Chi … [Read more...] about City hospitals to adopt financial autonomy