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Vietnam continues repatriating citizens as global coronavirus cases pass 5 million
24 HRS Medical - 27/05/2020
The upcoming repatriation flights will help roughly 2,000 people fly home.
Doctors remove toothpick from female patient's anus
24 HRS Medical - 22/05/2020
Doctors from Hoan My-Da Nang Hospital have successful removed a toothpick from a patient’s anus after she swallowed while sleeping.
Health ministry considers repatriating British pilot after being treated for coronavirus
24 HRS Medical - 22/05/2020
Vietnam's most critically ill COVID-19 patient, a British pilot, has now been deemed to be coronavirus-free, and the health ministry is considering the option of bringing him back to the UK for further care depending on his condition.
Liver from Hanoi brings revival to patient in HCM City
24 HRS Medical - 22/05/2020
A liver donated from an unfortunate brain dead woman in Hanoi has been transported to Ho Chi Minh City for transplant to a local patient, saving him from severe cirrhosis.
HCMC Hospitals report increase in heat-related illnesses
24 HRS Medical - 22/05/2020
HCM City and other localities in the south have recorded temperatures of 38-39 degrees Celsius in recent days, leading to more heat-related illnesses, especially among children and the elderly.
Court upholds sentences for defendants in fake medicine case
24 HRS Medical - 21/05/2020
The High-level People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on May 20 upheld the verdict handed down at the first-instance trial in a case involving the “manufacturing and trading of counterfeit medicine”.
British patient's lung function improves, transplant being considered
24 HRS Medical - 21/05/2020
The second computed tomography (CT) scan of the critically-ill British pilot, Vietnam’s 91st COVID-19 patient, showed positive improvements, said Dr Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, director of HCM City’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Critically ill COVID-19 patient thankful she is still alive
24 HRS Medical - 21/05/2020
Le Tuyet H. was patient number 19. She caught the disease from her niece who had flown back to Vietnam from the UK in March.
Latest Coronavirus News in Vietnam & Southeast Asia May 7
24 HRS Medical - 08/05/2020
VN gains initial success in developing coronavirus vaccine
Hanoi CDC leader pleads guilty, ordered to return embezzled funds
24 HRS Medical - 08/05/2020
Director of the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (CDC) Nguyen Nhat Cam and his accomplices have pled guilty to the charge of tripling the purchase price of the real-time PCR detection system package
Vietnamese citizens stranded in the US to return home on May 7
24 HRS Medical - 08/05/2020
A flight carrying Vietnamese citizens from the US is scheduled for May 7, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.
About 240 Vietnamese return home from France
24 HRS Medical - 08/05/2020
About 240 Vietnamese citizens were repatriated from France on Vietnam Airlines flights on May 5 and 6.
