Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien cited the fact that 96.8 percent of lung cancer patients in Vietnam smoke.

Non-communicable diseases contribute to 73 percent of all deaths nationwide, he said, adding that tobacco use is one of the major causes.

Non-communicable diseases contribute to 73 percent of all deaths nationwide. Tobacco use is one of the major causes.

Passive smoking is also the cause of lung diseases in children, making them suffer from health problems in adulthood, he said.

Luong Ngoc Khue, head of the health ministry’s department of medical examination and treatment and director of the tobacco control fund, said 40 cities and provinces nationwide held meetings in response to the National No Tobacco Week.

Smoking bans have been instituted in 1,560 State administrative agencies, 10,000 schools, 4,442 factories, and 508 hospitals.

Nearly 70 percent of trade unions at the grassroots level say no to smoking at the working environment while 195,000 workers gave up smoking.

3,000 poor people and policy beneficiaries receive free health checkup and medicine

(BGO) – The Red Cross Society in the northern province of Bac Giang and VinGroup’s Kind-Heart Foundation on May 13 co-hosted a programme to provide free health examination, consultation and medicine in Son Dong district to respond to the Humanitarian Month in 2019.

 

EU-funded programme helps improve Vietnam’s health sector

A budget support programme for Vietnam’s health sector funded by the European Union (EU) was reviewed in a ceremony held by the C(MoH)  in Hanoi on May 8. 

 

Health ministry works to increase immunisation coverage

Immunisation is one of the most important measures to protect the community from life-threatening and popular contagious diseases, said Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong.

 

Olympic Run Day for Public Health kicks off in Hanoi

The annual Olympic Run Day for Public Health and the 46th Ha Noi Moi Newspaper Run for peace was launched simultaneously at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 24. 

 

Vietnam, RoK enhance cooperation in health care

Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and Korean Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo held talks and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation in Seoul on March 14.

 

Source: VNA