VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Ai Tran, from the southern province of Ca Mau, is only three years old but she looks like a 60-year-old woman. Tran and her mother. Tran is the only child of Mr. Nguyen Thanh Sac and Ms. Tran Thu Trang from Hemlet 9, Khanh An commune, U Minh district, Ca Mau province. Tran has just recovered from a bubonocele surgery at the Ca Mau General Hospital. Trang said her daughter developed normally from her birth to four months old. Since the fifth month old, the baby’s skin began to have wrinkles and hanging down like an old person. Tran was brought to the Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City for examination. Doctors said that the baby suffered from early aging syndrome. However, the family was too poor so they could not take her to hospital again since then. “When she was 2 months old, I got agalactia. I began to feed her by rice gruel. At that time she gained weight quickly. But from the 4th month old, after she caught … [Read more...] about 3-year-old girl looks like an old lady
1 year old has diarrhea
Tap water in Hanoi filtered with 100-year-old technology
VietNamNet Bridge - Most of the water supply plants in Hanoi which exploit underground water use outdated filtration technology which cannot eliminate toxic substances. Dr. Cao The Ha from the Hanoi University of Natural Sciences said the treated water samples had not been found containing concentrations of arsenic, manganese and chloride higher than Vietnam and WHO (World Health Organization) standards. Ha said very few of the operating water plants in Hanoi use technologies that permit the standard arsenic residue at below 0.01 mg per liter. Many plants provide water with a high arsenic concentration, including Phap Van, Luong Yen, Thanh Tri, Van Phuc and plants in the former Ha Tay province. To eliminate solids, such as manganese, calcium, magnesium and barium, the plant uses old techniques, including spraying systems and chlorination. The methods, according to Ha, aim to eliminate iron which helps get rid of arsenic. However, they can work only in areas with a … [Read more...] about Tap water in Hanoi filtered with 100-year-old technology
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 17/1
HCM City extends FDI project licences The HCM City People's Committee on Wednesday approved the increase in investment capital of two foreign direct investment (FDI) projects. The investors are Worldon Viet Nam Co, Ltd of the United Kingdom's Gain Lucky Corporation, and Nobland Viet Nam of South Korea's Nobland International Inc. The committee granted investment certificates to the two companies, with an additional investment capital of US$178 million. Worldon Viet Nam will build a centre for fashion design and produce high-quality clothing products in an area of 52ha, and provide housing for workers in an area of 7ha. The investment of the project has increased by $160 million to touch $300 million. The centre will be constructed in the Dong Nam Industrial Zone in Cu Chi District's Hoa Phu Commune. Nobland Viet Nam revised its investment capital from $43 million to $61 million to expand the scale of production in its three factories in the Tan Thoi Hiep Industrial Zone in District … [Read more...] about BUSINESS IN BRIEF 17/1
Breast-feeding saves 6 million children under 5 each year
The Hanoitimes - Do Thi Ngoc Diep, head of the HCM City Nutrition Centre, said that no milk product is better than breast milk. Le Tran … [Read more...] about Breast-feeding saves 6 million children under 5 each year
U.S. needs to rethink Ebola infection controls, says CDC chief
Medical experts need to rethink how highly infectious diseases are handled in the United States, a U.S. health official said on Monday, after a Dallas nurse contracted Ebola despite wearing protective gear while caring for a dying Liberian patient. As an outbreak of the deadly virus spread beyond West Africa, hospitals and nursing associations across the United States were taking a closer look at how prepared they were to handle such infections. "We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control. Even a single infection is unacceptable," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters. "The care of Ebola is hard. We're working to make it safer and easier." Frieden said health authorities are still investigating how the nurse became infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan in an isolation ward at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Duncan died last week and the nurse is the first person to contract the virus on U.S. … [Read more...] about U.S. needs to rethink Ebola infection controls, says CDC chief