HCM City has targeted testing at least 17,045 additional people with tuberculosis (TB), including 7,840 new patients with pulmonary TB, next year, according to the city’s TB Prevention and Control Programme.The programme also set a target for testing sputa of 128,590 people, or 1.58 per cent of the city’s total population, experts said at a conference on TB prevention and control held yesterday in the city. Laboratory technicians examine TB tests at a hospital in Vietnam Dr Đặng Minh Đường of Phạm Ngọc Thạch Hospital, which is in charge in carrying out the programme, said the city in 2017 tested sputa of 93,000 people in an aim to detect TB.The number of new patients with TB totalled 16,452 in 2017, an increase of 3.5 per cent compared to 2016. Of these, 7,778 pulmonary TB patients were admitted for treatment this year, an increase of 8.5 per cent compared to 2016.Đường said the city cured 88.4 per cent of patients with pulmonary TB in 2017.Many TB patients do not have symptoms and can be dangerous sources for transmission. Moreover, many patients with TB give up their treatment, leading to drug-resistant TB.Around 24 per cent of TB patients in the city have drug-resistant tuberculosis and multi drug-resistant tuberculosis, he said, adding that the country has around 3,000 patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis.Hospitals in the city in 2017 admitted 282 children with TB in 2017, including 47 positive for pulmonary TB, an increase of 74 per cent compared to 2016.Đường warned that children with…
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The HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will draft a plan to develop a river tour to the Mekong province of An Giang and Cambodia. After conducting a survey of short routes, the department found that there was huge potential in river tourism. They studied the routes from Bach Dang Wharf in District 1 to the confluence of the Sai Gon and Nha Be rivers, and from the wharf to Tau Hu Canal. Source: VNS... [read more]
Nearly 30 farms supplying chicks, 339 farms supplying chicken meat, 53 chicken egg farms, 13 poultry slaughtering and poultry meat packaging establishments and six poultry eggs packaging establishments have registered to join the new programme. In addition, the programme has received the participation of more than 1,740 poultry meat and egg distributors or retailers in the city, said Nguyen Ngoc Hoa, the department’s deputy director. Under the programme, consumers can trace the origin of poultry meat from the hatching to final stages, he said, adding that they can also trace eggs from the breeding to final stages. Speaking at a…... [read more]
A view of the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve (Source: VNA) Ho Chi Minh City plans to set up a special economic zone spread over the four districts of 7, Binh Chanh, Nha Be, and Can Gio to develop its maritime economy and logistics industry.The HCM City Development Research Institute, which has provided the draft of the zone to the city administration, said the zone would spur the development of the area and create jobs and other livelihoods for local residents.It also said it would promote tourism and help preserve the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve and help develop the…... [read more]
The Criminal Science Institute and police have set up a DNA testing centre in the city, the country’s second of its kind. Senior Lieutenant Colonel Truong Duc Khai, deputy director of TheCriminal Science Institute’s Biological Legal Assessment Centre, saidthe centre, which opened at the HCM City Criminal Science sub-institutein District 1 March 23, will provide evidence for civil and criminalcases and paternity tests. Members of the general public with need for DNA testing can call on thesub-institute to get instructions in using and collecting samples fortests. The test results would be available in a day in case of criminalinvestigations and…... [read more]
The HCM City People's Committee has given approval to HCM City Power Corporation (EVN HCMC) to bury 19 electrical grids and telecommunication cables this year. Workers check electricity and telecommunications cables The city will pay for half of EVN HCMC's loan interest so that it can begin the underground projects. After September 15, EVN HCMC will begin 14 projects, most of which are located in central District 1. Work will be done on roads Ham Nghi, Pham Ngoc Thach, Ly Tu Trong, Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Nguyen Hue and Le Loi. Major roads like Hong Bang, Nguyen Xi, Nguyen…... [read more]
An additional 5.9 km will link Bến Thành in District 1 and Thủ Thiêm Urban Area in District 2, while a 3.4 km section will run from Tham Lương to An Sương Coach Station in District 12.According to the HCM City Management Authority for Urban Railways, the European Commission intended to offer non-refundable aid of EUR6 million (US$7.17 million) for the project through KfW, the German Development Bank.The Bến Thành – Tham Lương Line 2 is 11.33 km long, including a 9.5-km underground section, running through Districts 1, 3, 10, 12, Tân Bình and Tân Phú.Construction originally began in 2013…... [read more]
However, products sold in such spots are more often than not of questionable origin and food safety is a big issue. Authorities frequently crack down on such markets, both for food safety and during urban order restoration campaigns.Many experts are sceptical about the effectiveness of these campaigns, and argue that if forceful measures are not taken to address the root cause of the issue, then the street markets will return after the campaigns end.There is no official figure on the number of street markets in HCM City, but the number may be well in hundreds as these markets are ubiquitous…... [read more]
In addition, the city aims to eliminatetemporary housing and increase the rate of concrete houses to more than75 percent by 2015. It will also complete the task ofrelocating 13,000 households living on canals, rebuild 30 old apartmentbuildings with total new housing area of 350,000sq.m for 6,500households, and build about 10,000 houses for low-income people. By 2015, the city aims to meet the housing demand for city residents,improve housing quality and develop a housing fund for low-incomeearners, including State civil servants, State employees, workers andstudents. These targets were announced by the cityPeople's Committee at a June 17 seminar that reviewed the…... [read more]
Children play at Nguyen Cu Trinh Kindergarten in HCM City’s District 1 (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committeehas petitioned the municipal People’s Council to increase salary and allowancesto raise incomes for kindergarten teachers in order to encourage them tocontinue working as the city has seen a year-by-year increase of kindergartenteachers quitting their jobs.Under the petition, the total fund for the salary increase isestimated to be over 251 billion VND (11 million USD) each year.In the 2013-2014 academic year, 706 teachers quit teaching to switchto other jobs. This figure increased to 823 in the 2014-2015…... [read more]
The country’s largest economic hub has been identified asone of the 10 cities in the world most likely to be severely affectedby climate change, and the need to deploy an adaptation plan is urgent,officials have said.Ayumi Konishi, the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s country director forVietnam , said the effects of climate change could cause a 7.3 percentdrop in the city’s GDP in the near future.Konishi spoke at a workshop on July 14 in HCM City on the impact ofclimate change and the need for the city to move from study to action.The municipal People’s Committee and ADB organised the workshop.The…... [read more]
