Vietnam made history by finishing as the runner-up at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship on January 27. They lost 2-1 to Uzbekistan but still managed to go further at the tournament than any other Southeast Asian team in history, sending the entire country into euphoria. But the outpouring of emotion ended in tears in some cases. Hanoi’s Health Department said that dozens of football fans were hospitalized with injuries on January 27-28. The 115 Emergency Center in Hanoi said it received 120% more emergency cases on January 28, when the city welcomed the Vietnamese team back from China with a parade running over 30 kilometers from Noi Bai Airport. AFP described the reception as a “rock-star welcome”. Nguyen Thanh, director of the center, said one young man had fallen from the roof of a car while cheering for the team. After the game on January 27, one man wearing a Vietnam shirt was admitted with a broken hip and head injuries, prompting doctors to search for his family via Facebook. Vietnamese football fans have been walking on air over the past two weeks in the wake of their team’s success at the tournament. The young underdogs overcame Australia 1-0 in the group stage, and then went on to defeat Iraq in the quarterfinals. On January 23, after the team beat Qatar in the semifinals, the 115 Center admitted around 140 patients, up 150% compared to normal days. Most of them were caught up in road accidents as fans stormed the streets…. [Read full story]
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Dong Da Hospital, Hanoi, are quickly preparing to treat type A flu patients if there is an outbreak of the disease. However, doctors said that the hospitals could only receive a certain number of patients. Ms Nguyen Tuong Van, deputy head of the emergency department of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said that the hospital had prepared medical equipment, chemicals, medicine and respirators. However, she said she worried that the hospital lacked staff and space. She said that the hospital had only 200 sick-beds and 120 doctors and nurses. The emergency department has only…... [read more]
The Ministry of Health February 13 announced that over 2,200 cases of emergency cases of alcohol poison have been hospitalized during Tet holidays across the country.There were 230 cases of alcohol intoxication - related emergency cases and one death during the fourth and fifth days of the lunar year.Dr. Ngo Duc Ngo from Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi said that during Tet holidays, the hospital received 5 patients averagely a day and most of them suffered digestive bleeding and oesophagus veins because they drank too much; many of them drank fake wine made with Methanol.In addition to cases of alcohol…... [read more]
Health Ministry, WHO and CDC visit a Hanoi hospital to inspect their Ebola quarantine ward on October 19, 2014. Photo: Ngoc Thang The director of a major hospital in Hanoi announced Sunday that his facility is prepared to test and quarantine potential Ebola patients. Doctor Nguyen Van Kinh, director of the Central Tropical Diseases Hospital, told visitors from the Health Ministry, the World Health Organization and the US's Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention that they are ready. Kinh said the hospital has set up medical teams and facilities to quarantine Ebola patients at the hospital as well as provide…... [read more]
Spraying anti-mosquito chemicals in Lang Ha ward of Hanoi (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)
– The number of new dengue fever cases in Hanoi has dropped in the recent two
weeks but is still high, heard a meeting of the Steering Committee on Epidemics
Prevention and Control in Hanoi on August 25.
A report from the
Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health showed that
Hanoi tops the list of 10 localities with highest dengue fever cases nationwide.
The municipal
Department of Health reported 19,962 dengue fever cases with seven deaths from
January 1 to…... [read more]
The blood donation in hospitals also ensures enough blood for treatment and emergent cases, reported the Humanitarian Blood Donation Center of Red Cross in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday. The number of voluntary blood donors has increased in past weeks lately, it said In May and in June, the center received over 12,500 and over 14,000 units of blood respectively. Before, around 50-100 voluntary blood donors came to the center daily for donation. Currently, nearly 250 people a day agreed to give blood excluding people gave blood in mobile vehicles. Since early this year, the center has received over 85,000…... [read more]
