NDO – A meeting was held in Hanoi on May 28 to observe the World No Tobacco Day (May 31) and the National No Tobacco Week (May 25-31). 

NDO – As many as 29 hospitals signed a commitment to promote breastfeeding at the Implementation Workshop on Centres of Excellence for Breastfeeding held in Hanoi on May 28. 

NDO – A ceremony was held in Phu Tho province, on May 27, to announce that Hung Vuong General Hospital at Chi Dam commune, Doan Hung district became the K Hospital’s satellite hospital and participating in Project 1816 of Bach Mai Hospital. 

NDO/VNA – A meeting was held in Hanoi on May 26 in response to the World No Tobacco Day (May 31) and the National No Tobacco Week (May 25-31) following the theme of “tobacco and lung diseases”. 

NDO – A Vietnamese delegation, led by Maj. Gen. Nguyen Xuan Kien, head of the Military Medical Department under the General Department of Logistics, attended the 43rd ICMM World Congress on Military Medicine in Basel, Switzerland, from May 19 to 25. 

NDO – Diagnosed with breast cancer at 12 weeks of pregnancy, Nguyen Thi L. (28 years old, from Ly Nhan district, Ha Nam province) was still determined to remain healthy to give birth to her child. The C-section to deliver the baby at week 31 was successful, with the tears of the doctors and L.’s family on May 22. 

NDO – A programme entitled ‘Young doctors follow Uncle Ho’s teachings to volunteer for community’s health’ was launched in Hanoi on May 19 by the Vietnam Youth Federation and the Vietnam Young Doctors’ Association. 

NDO – Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC) officially put its vaccination centre into operation in Da Nang on May 15, the largest centre among VNVC’s vaccination system nationwide.  

NDO/VNA – Four hospitals in Vietnam have sent delegates to attend the 9th Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE 2019) in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, from May 2-5. 

NDO/VNA – The Undetectable=Untransmittable or K=K (Khong phat hien=Khong lay truyen) campaign was launched in Hanoi on May 3, with a training course on communications work for the campaign. 

NDO – The 12th National Assembly (NA) Committee on Social Affairs held its 12th plenary session in Ho Chi Minh City on April 25, discussing multiple issues related to the health sector. 

NDO – The Ministry of Health (MoH) and Amway Vietnam on April 23 signed a cooperation agreement on the continuous implementation of a project aimed at improving nutrition for children under five in Vietnam during 2019-2020. 

NDO – Vietnam has successfully carried out over 750 stem cell transplants for treatment of blood diseases in the last decade. 

NDO/VNA – Developing grassroots healthcare to prevent non-infectious diseases is the top task of the health-population target programme for 2016-2020, according to Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.