Minister at health

Quitting smoking would help create a healthy environment for each individual, family and society, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn, at a meeting held yesterday in Hà Nội to respond to World No Tobacco Day (May 31) and National No Tobacco Week (May 25-31). “Quit smoking today,” Sơn said. He added that it was a message the ministry wanted to send to every smoker in the country. This year, the World Health Organisation’s World No Tobacco Day campaign focuses on protecting children and young people from exploitation by the tobacco industry. Speaking at the meeting, Sơn urged all ministries, sectors and localities nationwide to strengthen their implementation of the Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms. Since the tobacco law came into effect in May 2013, the smoking rate among men decreased by about 2.1 per cent and women by 0.3 per cent. Through the event, the ministry’s Tobacco Harms … [Read more...] about Health ministry wants everyone to stop smoking

The defense minister also briefed the two former senior defense leaders on outstanding achievements of the army in the past time in its implementation of military- defense tasks and military-building, as well as its contributions to the national construction and defense missions, and military units’ gratitude activities to mark the 71st Wounded Soldiers’ and Martyrs’ Day. … [Read more...] about Defense minister visits former senior leaders

Top health leaders and experts discuss the condition and treatment of a British pilot who is Vietnam’s sickest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient at a telemedicine consultation, May 29, 2020. Photo: Thuy Anh / Tuoi Tre The child, residing in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, landed at Van Don International Airport in northern Quang Ninh Province on Vietnam Airlines flight VN0062 on May 13. … [Read more...] about British pilot, Vietnam’s sickest COVID-19 patient, might not need lung transplant as health improves: doctors

Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students have returned to school after a delay of more than two months because of the coronavirus outbreak AFP/Ed JONES The country has been held up as a global model in how to curb the virus, but reported its biggest spike - 79 new cases - in nearly two months as life appeared returning to normal. … [Read more...] about South Korea re-imposes some social restrictions to combat new COVID-19 cases

A senior EVNNPT official who did not want to be named told local media that domestic experts were being hired for these projects as short-term solutions, but in the long run foreign experts were a must as contracts demand that they be hired to maintain and operate key equipments. … [Read more...] about Major projects face delays as Covid-19 blocks foreign experts