The first ever Vietnamese baby to have foetal cardiac surgery was born healthy and discharged on Monday, Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City said.

Vietnam in 2023 has managed to have solid control over infectious disease situation, with the general goal of minimising the incidence and mortality from infectious diseases compared to the 2016-20 average.

An 18-year-old female student was rushed to the emergency room, unable to move the left side of her body and experiencing severe speech impairment. Doctors diagnosed her with a rare form of stroke.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has ordered facilities to continue collecting samples from COVID-19 patients for genome sequencing as various infections with the JN.1, an Omicron sub-variant, are detected in HCM City.

Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous locality in Vietnam, has seen a sharp increase in the number of cases caused by the JN.1 sub-variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the Ministry of Health has said.

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion has said it still needs about 10,000 units of blood for treatment and emergency cases during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday that is due to last for seven days.

In a historic medical breakthrough, Vietnam witnessed the first successful delivery of a baby over three weeks after having undergone foetal heart surgery.

An agreement signing ceremony to deploy the Nura general health check model, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, took place on Saturday afternoon in Hanoi.

The surge in travel demand during Tet (Lunar New Year) is a favourable condition for diseases to spread, including COVID-19, a health official of Ho Chi Minh City has said.

The number of donated organs from brain-dead people per year in Vietnam is just equal to 1/110 of the number in South Korea and 1/500 in Spain.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health said on January 24 that it has detected the appearance of the JN.1 sub-variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that is currently spreading rapidly around the globe.

Vinmec International General Hospital on January 22 announced its doctors have simultaneously replaced both the pelvis and part of the femur in one operation to treat a patient with an extremely rare type of bone cancer.

Chronic diseases are a global concern, meaning France and Vietnam should work together to seek long-term solutions to this issue, French Ambassador to Vietnam Olivier Brochet said on January 22 at a workshop held in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Health advises health inspection centres to stay updated on global infectious disease information, ensuring effective monitoring and prevention measures at border checkpoints.

The HCM City Department of Health views this success as an initial outcome in the specialised field of foetal congenital heart intervention.

The capital city of Hanoi has witnessed a rise in influenza A cases over the past two weeks, with an increasing number of patients relying on mechanical ventilation.

The Ministry of Health has warned about a possibly wider monkeypox outbreak during the winter-spring period.

Recruiting doctors to work in commune health centres and district hospitals in mountainous regions has become more successful.

Decisions to donate the organs of two brain-dead men have saved the life of eight patients who were in critical condition.

Doctors from Tu Du Hospital and Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City successfully performed a foetal cardiac surgery on January 4, the first ever not just in Vietnam but in Southeast Asia.