Accordingly, the Center will offer professional and technical services about preventive health care, food safety and other medical tasks in line with legal regulation. It is operated under direct management of the Department of Health.

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The Center will supply several services of preventive health care, including disease prevention and control (supervising, screening for early detection, vaccinating, combating against the pandemic) while providing activities to ensure labour safety and hygiene, labour health, prevention of occupational disease, working accident…

It is in charge of implementing professional and technical tasks about food safety as regulation, conducting medical services to prevent, control and recover the consequences of natural disasters, responding the medical emergency cases.

Besides, the Center will instruct, check and supervise the medical division at the businesses while receiving, supplying, storing, allocating, using drug, vaccine, medical products, chemical and equipment for professional task in line with authority’s regulation.

It also joins in research and scientific research to develop new technology and applies advanced technique in professional activities.

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