02-Dec-15 Can Tho City in southern Vietnam has opened a heart hospital to serve both local and regional needs. The new hospital will provide checks and treatment for patients in Can Tho City and other provinces in the Mekong Delta, which has only one other cardiac hospital, in order to reduce patient overload and help people save travel costs. [image: VNA / VNS]

27-Nov-15 The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAVN) launched online public services 'Level 4' in Nov-15, to help pharmaceutical firms register drug and medicine prices. The system enables companies to submit documents, pay fees, check the progress of document processing, and receive results online, from the beginning of 2016. [image: VNA]

25-Nov-15 Vietnam's Ministry of Health has urged all hospitals to boost their application of IT to improve medical examinations, treatment and management. MoH IT Dept Deputy Director Pham Xuan Viet said that information technology had become one of the standards in which to evaluate hospitals. [image: Viet Nam News]

23-Nov-15 Vietnam's will increase public hospital fees in early 2016, instead of Dec-15, Nguyen Nam Lien, the Ministry of Health has said. With this fee increase, patients will pay two to four times more than when using healthcare services at state-owned hospitals. Currently 73% of the population is covered by health insurance, which means 25 mn people are self-paying. [image: Dantri]

12-Nov-15 Doctors in satellite hospitals in South Vietnam have applied advanced medical techniques transferred from 'core' hospitals, enabling an increase in the number of patients being treated at satellite hospitals. Fourteen central hospitals have been chosen by the Ministry of Health as ‘core' hospitals responsible for transferring advanced medical techniques to 46 satellite hospitals across 38 provinces and cities. [image: Doan Tung]