32 residents of the central province of Thua Thien – Hue have been infected with streptococcus pathogen in swine for five recent months amid the breaking out of blue ear disease in several provinces.
With nearly 700 businesses and distribution companies and over 4,000 drugstores, pharmaceutical market in Ho Chi Minh City has shortcomings such as rampant low quality drugs or without clear indications of origins.
The Ministry of Health and relevant agencies would inspect hospitals as media have reported state-run medical clinics take advantaged of new regulation on health insurance to increase profit, said a deputy health minister.
Doctors of Ho Chi Minh City’s Children Hospital No.2 have successfully performed the kidney transplantation on an eleven-year-old boy, Nguyen Van G, from the southern province of Binh Phuoc.