According to Dr. Nguyen Vu Thuong, Deputy Director of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, the disease surveillance system in the Southern region has recorded 117 cases of monkeypox including 6 deaths since the disease was reported in Vietnam.

The health centre of Bien Hoa City in the southern province of Dong Nai reported on December 21 that it has recorded another local resident infected with monkeypox in Long Binh ward.

The first Vietnamese Medical Encyclopedia will be published shortly.

The Women's Unions of Thu Duc City and District 6, HCM City, cooperated with the "Let Her Talk" campaign to host the "Screen for Cervical Cancer Today" event on December 2 and 9.

The HCM City Health Department has warned of the potential risk of a COVID-19 resurgence in the city amid a wave of cases emerging in many Western-Pacific countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Guam, and Brunei.

The number of new cancer cases in Vietnam has been increasing, while breast and colorectal cancer patients are getting younger.

The recent announcement by Cambodia of two additional human cases of H5N1 avian influenza has raised concerns about the spread of the disease in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health has said.

A hospital in Vietnam has successfully prepared two new types of radioactive drugs for use in PET/CT techniques. Previously, cancer patients who were prescribed a scan with the drug had to go abroad to have it done.

The Ministry of Health is working hard to ensure vaccine supply for the national expanded program on immunisation (EPI), heard a regular Government press conference in Hanoi on December 6.

With the successful preparation of these two types of radioactive drugs, patients will no longer need to go abroad at high cost to access this treatment.

As of early October this year, after 31 years of organ transplants and 13 years of retrieving organs from brain-dead donors, the country has performed nearly 8,000 organ transplants.

The Ministry of Health has raised warnings about the possible emergence of respiratory diseases in Vietnam.

A six-week-old girl in Hanoi has been diagnosed with whooping cough, the first case in the city this year.

Zinc deficiency in the body will affect growth, causing malnutrition and stunting. Micronutrient deficiency is the main cause of short stature in Vietnamese youth, according to experts from the Institute of Nutrition.

Doctors at the National Military Hospital 108 (Hospital 108) have just successfully performed a liver transplant with incompatible blood types on a 15-year-old girl.

The supply of vaccines for the expanded vaccination programme has been disrupted since the beginning of 2023 due to changes in the vaccine procurement mechanism.

Vietnam's General Department of Preventive Medicine has requested more information from the WHO and the Chinese agency for International Health Regulations (IHR) regarding an increase in respiratory illness cases occurring in China.

The majority of patients seek medical treatment at a late stage, leading to the necessity of removing the eyeball to preserve life in 70 per cent of cases.

An Eye Tumor Unit for Children, the first of its kind in Vietnam, has been established at the Central Eye Hospital in Hanoi.

UNICEF is calling for enhanced mental health strategies to support the young generation in VN as part of World Children’s Day 2023.