HIV prevention targets pregnant women

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VietNam News English 6 month(s) ago

HIV prevention targets pregnant women

Sitting alone on a bench outside the Obstetrics Department of Thot Not District General Hospital in southern Can Tho City, the round and sun-bronzed face of a young woman betrays a gnawing anxiety. Her eyes sometimes flit down to her soil-filled finger nails which cling tightly to the bench. Her threadbare hat tumbles to the floor but she does not care about picking it up.

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Obstetric doctors prescribe... cosmetics to patients

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 8 month(s) ago

Cosmetics do not help prevent or cure diseases, but many obstetric doctors in Ho Chi Minh City are ready to prescribe them to postnatal women to allegedly get commissions of 30 percent from the seller, a Tuoi Tre investigation has found.

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Midwife transferred after baby death in central Vietnam

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Báo Thanh Niên English 9 month(s) ago

A public hospital in the north-central province of Ha Tinh has removed a nurse midwife from duty for her responsibility in a maternal complication that killed an unborn baby.

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Medical staff punished for baby death in central Vietnam

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Báo Thanh Niên English 10 month(s) ago

A public hospital in the north-central province of Ha Tinh officially rebuked two doctors and suspended a nurse midwife on Monday for their role in the death of a baby during a delivery on July 30.

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Quang Ngai hospital reshuffles staff following spate of delivery deaths

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Báo Thanh Niên English 10 month(s) ago

Health authorities in central Vietnam removed a doctor from her position as the deputy head of an obstetrics department and officially rebuked the department's director over a spate of obstetrical fatalities.

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Hanoi hospital hands baby to wrong mother

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Báo Thanh Niên English 17 month(s) ago 1 related news

Hanoi Ob-Gyn Hospital on Saturday gave the wrong baby to a mother several hours after her delivery.

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2,500 die of cervical cancer in Vietnam yearly

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Báo Dân Trí English 23 month(s) ago

2,500 die of cervical cancer in Vietnam yearly

Vietnam every year has 5,174 new cervical cancer cases and 2,472 women die of the disease on average, said a report at the conference held by the Vietnam Preventive Health Association on July 24.

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2,500 die of cervical cancer in VN yearly

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 23 month(s) ago

Vietnam every year has 5,174 new cervical cancer cases and 2,472 women die of the disease on average, said a report at the conference held by the Vietnam Preventive Health Association yesterday.

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Drinking water found to contain plasticiser

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VietNam News English 24 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

The National Institute for Food Hygiene and Safety Testing has found a commercial brand of drinking water named Wells contains small amounts of di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP).

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Hospital staff rebuked for pronouncing live baby dead

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SaiGon GP English 45 month(s) ago

Hospital staff rebuked for pronouncing live baby dead

The discipline council of central Ninh Thuan Province’s General Hospital cut a doctor’s salary December 1 after she falsely pronounced a newborn infant dead. Another doctor and two nurses were also reprimanded for the incident which occurred last month.

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Doctors, nurses rebuked for pronouncing live baby dead

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Báo Thanh Niên English 45 month(s) ago

The general hospital in Ninh Thuan Province on Tuesday cut a doctor’s salary, reprimanded another doctor and two nurses who last month falsely informed that a baby was born dead.

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