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Health
department fines hospital over negligence
The Ha Noi
Department of Health has fined the city-based Thuong Tin Hospital VND30
million (US$1,400) for using a biochemical analyser without having documents
showing its place of manufacture.
The hospital's
Deputy Director Pham Hoang Anh said that they had been hiring the
The
The Department
added that it would conduct widespread inspections of other health facilities
to check for use of substandard medical equipment.
Lao Cai
residents evacuated from dangerous flood zones
Authorities in the
northern mountainous
The districts of
Bac Ha, Bat Xat, Bao Yen and
Deputy Head of the
provincial Steering Committee for Flood Prevention and Control, Nguyen Anh
Tuan, said the province had so far fulfilled only 57 per cent of its
evacuation plan, while the disbursement for building resettlement facilities
was slow, reaching only about 50 per cent of the target.
Under the plan, the
province aimed to relocate 343 households with around 2,000 people from
high-risk areas before June 30 this year when the rainy season began, he
said.
However,
difficulties had hindered the operation.
"Some
households do not want to move to new resettlement areas because they do not
want to leave their agricultural land.
However, we need to
find ways to force them to move for their own safety when the rainy season
starts," he said.
"Infrastructure
in some resettlement areas is also incomplete due to lack of funding,"
he added.
The plan will be
implemented at an estimated cost of nearly VND7 billion (US$333,000).
However, provincial authorities have earmarked just VND3 billion from the
provincial budget.
The northwestern
region has entered the rainy season, causing concern for local households in
high-risk areas.
The provincial
People's Committee has asked district-level authorities to hasten the
evacuation to ensure public safety.
Lao Cai is one of
the provinces hardest hit by natural disasters during the rainy season. In
2008, a village in the province was swept away by landslides.
Typhoon Rammasun,
which hit northern provinces recently, killed five people and caused
estimated losses of VND164 billion ($7.8 million) in Lao Cai.
Police
prosecute Bach Mai hospital assailant
A 36-year-old man
has been arrested and prosecuted for disturbing public order after assaulting
doctors at the Ha Noi-based
Nguyen Tien Dung
from Hoang Mai district attacked the doctors in the hospital's A9 Emergency
Department because he thought they had neglected his sick wife.
Dung hit medical
staff and threw a chair at a seven-month pregnant nurse, making her faint on
the spot.
He also called a
gang of friends to the hospital to continue the violence, but they were
intercepted by police.
Dung was found to
have a history of drug addiction.
Blaze
ravages plant in Hung Yen province
A major fire broke
out at Hoa Phat Electronics Co., Ltd in the northern province of Hung Yen
yesterday, causing up to VND15 billion (US$721,000) in damage.
The blaze
reportedly started in plastic molds at around 4am and was put out three hours
later.
All the equipment
and materials in the workshop were completely destroyed, and part of the
workshop's roof collapsed.
Preliminary
investigations showed that an electrical fault might have triggered the
blaze.
Company
stands behind decision not to pay prize-winner
An official from
Tribeco confirmed that the company does not intend to pay the prize-winner,
claiming that the ticket was invalid.
Ta Van An, 62, from
southern
Vuong Duc Thien,
head of Tribeco's legal affairs department said, that they could do nothing.
“We won't pay An.
His ticket is invalid. A standard winning ticket must have a stamp and a
signature by the head of our company. We’ve issued only three such cards. Two
people have already claimed their prizes and we are completing procedures for
their payment,” said Thien.
When asked whether
the company might have forgotten stamping and signature, Thien said it was
not a possibility because the process is so heavily supervised that there
could be no such mistake.
“The printer of the
tickets, Liskin, said that it would be difficult to verify the authenticity
of the ticket. They have asked for help from a lab with the proper technology
to confirm the ticket's origins," he added.
When asked about
the company's earlier offer of VND5 million (USD235.4) to An, he said that it
was to compensate him for transportation costs.
An has said that he
is not satisfied with the Tribeco's explanations and intends to take the case
to court.
Nguyen Van Ban,
chairman of the Binh Duong provincial Association of Consumer Protection,
said if the company made a mistake in issuing the card, they would be liable
to make compensation to An, and would have to negotiate with the prize-winner
to find an appropriate amount.
“It’s unacceptable
to issue a winning card and then claim it's invalid to get out of paying the
promised prize," An added.
Quang Ngai
residents in need of clean water supplies
Few things are more
precious in the heart of the summer than clean water. But for hundreds of
households throughout Quang Ngai province, life has all but dried up.
The hot summer
months have dried up much of the water supply, and the rocky mountain terrain
makes it difficult to drill for more.
According to the
Vietnam News Agency, the pumping station in An Loi Village, Duc Pho
District's Pho Nhon Commune was dry, affecting about 320 households.
The pumping
station, with total investment of nearly VND8.3 billion (US$395,200), was
opened for public use in April. It was expected to supply clean water for
local residents in the commune with the capacity of 310cu.m per day.
However, the
station was left fallow after one month of use because of a clean water
shortage.
Chairman of the Pho
Nhon Commune People's Committee Bui Van Sy said that the bumping station took
clean water from the Da Giang stream. As a result, during hot weather the
stream ran out of water and the station did not have any water sources.
The commune
authorities have found different ways to supply water resources for local
residents, such as drilling wells and installing pumps. But ground water
levels are so low, none of these methods are proving effective.
In Pho Hoa Commune,
some 60 households are also going thirsty. Truong Van Sang, a resident in the
commune's Pho Van Village, said that the area was full of rocky mountain so
it was difficult to drill a well.
"I have tried
many times, but when drilling to the depth of 5-6 metres, I cannot drill any
more," he said.
Farm produce in the
commune has died from the clean water drought.
More than 20
households in Truong Quang Trong Ward in the province's
Nguyen Duc Toan,
Chairman of the Truong Quang Trong Ward People's Committee, said that the
area used to be a rice field. Construction work on the Vina film studio
project started in the area in 2009, affecting the area's underground water
source.
Since then local
residents could not drill wells.
The city
authorities assigned the city's Urban Management Division to check the
terrain and choose a proper position to drill a well.
But it was only a
temporarily measure. The well soon failed due to the rocky terrain, said
Toan.
Int'l
physics forum opens in Binh Dinh
Nearly 80 domestic
and foreign physicists are taking part in an international conference in Quy
Nhon city,
The three-day event
will focus on flavour physics, a new area for scientists to study the nature
of Quarks; an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.
This particle has
drawn attention from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN),
said Chairman of the Meet Vietnam Organisation Tran Thanh Van at the opening
ceremony yesterday.
Research on flavour
physics can be applied in nuclear power and medicine, heard the conference.
Sugarcane
firms suspended over pollution
The Viet Nam
Environment Administration has decided to suspend the operation of two
sugarcane companies for causing serious pollution.
After Tra Vinh
Sugarcane JSC and Ca Mau Sugarcane JSC were caught discharging untreated
wastewater, they were ordered to deal with the problem before the end of
June, said Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment and head of
the administration Bui Cach Tuyen. However, they failed to do so, meaning
that they would be shut down.
In the first six
months of this year, the administration organised four inspections of 29
businesses that caused serious pollution to the environment in Nam Dinh and
According to inspectors,
13 businesses had addressed the problem and 14 others were in the process of
doing so.
Tuyen said the
administration would work with relevant ministries and sectors to eliminate
businesses causing environmental pollution by 2020.
From now on, the
administration plans to inspect violators regularly. Those found still
polluting the environment will be forced to halt operations.
In 2013 and 2014,
172 businesses were told to stop polluting, but only 25 did so.
Indochinese
kids meet in
More than 220
children from
During the four-day
exchange, the children will tour a number of famous historical sites and
tourist destinations in the city, and participate in a cultural and art
performance.
The event aims to
further tighten solidarity and friendship among the three Indochinese
nations.
It is also expected
to provide the children an insight into the culture, history and
socio-economic development of
This is the third
time the event has been organised in
The Vietnam Academy
of Social Sciences (VASS) and the Lao National Institute of Social Sciences
agreed to take heed of the development of young scientists at a working
session in Vientiane on July 28 as part of a visit by a VASS delegation to
Laos.
The two sides were
pleased about their comprehensive and effective cooperation over the past
couple of years.
They said the
exchange of their personnel has lived up to expectations. Notably, joint
activities between young scientists have enhanced their mutual understanding
and cemented their partnership.
In the time ahead,
both sides will pay more attention to training the young through the
organisation of scientific seminars.
They also agreed to
push forward training, delegation exchange and information sharing, and
cooperation at international forums.
Officials of the
central province of Quang
Both sides agreed
to step up delegation exchange and promote their cultural and sports
collaboration.
They will work
closer to boost economic ties, attract investment into each other and
implement joint projects.
Officials also
concurred in fostering education and training connection. In particular,
Quang
Le Phuoc Thanh,
Chairman of the Quang Nam People’s Committee, expressed his hope that the two
localities will put more joint activities into action to push up their
socio-economic development in the time to come.-
Hepatitis B
accounts for 80% of cases of viral hepatitis
Out of every
100,000 Vietnamese people, 11 are infected with viral hepatitis, according to
the Preventive Medicine Department.
The
Over the past 10
years, the incidence of viral hepatitis has trended upwards, especially since
2009.
The World Health
Organization WHO has pledged to continue working closely with the Ministry of
Health and municipal Health Department and a number of key hospitals on
providing technical support for viral hepatitis prevention and control.
Dr. Le Manh Hung,
HTD Deputy Director said, "Generally, hepatitis viruses do not show
external abnormal symptoms. Around 75-80% of patients remain normal.
Therefore, screening is the best way for early detection. The late detection
will reduce the efficiency of treatment. When the liver is badly damaged, the
treatment process will cause dangerous complications without bringing an
effect. "
According to the
WHO, viral hepatitis is considered a silent killer, claiming the lives of 1.5
million people annually in the world. This is a group of virus-caused
infectious diseases that can cause acute and chronic hepatitis for hundreds
of millions of people, thus easily leading to serious complications such as
cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer.
At the World Health
Assembly (WHA) in May 2014, 194 member countries adopted a resolution on
improving viral hepatitis prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Ha
Nearly 200,000
children from 1-14 years old in the
The medical and
education sectors will work together to count the number of target children,
while the preventive health centre has been urged to ensure sufficient
quality vaccines.
At the same time,
medical staff will be fully equipped with medicine and necessary means to
promptly deal with possible post-vaccination incidents.
Ha
The Japanese
Government on July 28 approved a grant of nearly VND13.5 billion in
non-refundable aid to central Thua Thien Hue province for the second phase of
a disaster risk mitigation and adaptation project.
The funding will be
channeled through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The
localities’ counterpart capital is VND800 million.
The second phase of
the project will be implemented from now until July 2016 with the aim of
better managing risks of natural disasters through enhanced community
involvement, including improved education and awareness about the issues and
strengthened preventive measures.
Thua Thien Hue
province’s People’s Committee Vice Chairman Le Truong Luu said that JICA has
also agreed to support the province in implementing a project to improve the
Korean city
boosts cooperation with Quang Nam
A high-ranking
delegation from Osan city, the Republic of Korea (RoK) led by Osan mayor Kwak
Sang Wook paid a working visit to central Quang Nam province to explore
cooperation opportunities.
The Korean
delegates held talks with Quang
Osan and Quang
They also expressed
a desire to explore future cooperation deals to provide scholarships for
students and teachers to pursue overseas study in each other’s countries.
Quang
The Vietnam
People’s Army (VPA) Task Force Command on July 28 broke ground on a
US$325,000 project to construct a large hall and library in Kandal province
as a gift for the Royal Cambodian Army.
The project is
expected to boost the traditional friendship ties between the two nations and
bolster comprehensive cooperation between the two armies.
The big hall and
the library are located in the barracks campus of Parachute Brigade 911-one
of the most elite units of the Royal Cambodian Army which is tasked with
protecting the capital city
Covering a total
area of over 1,200 m2, the Khmer style architectural building will consist of
11 rooms and a conference hall capable of accommodating 500 people, and take
18 months to complete.
Speaking at the
groundbreaking ceremony, General Mop Sarun - Deputy Commander of the Royal
Cambodian Army praised the project as a noble symbol of friendship and
cooperation between the two armies, helping strengthen solidarity and
friendship between
Under a signed
cooperation agreement, this year the Vietnam Defense Ministry has provided a
US$21.6 million grant for the Royal Cambodian Army to support equipment
purchases, training and health care, of which US$2.4 million is allocated to
the Royal Cambodian Army’s construction projects.
Nine Vietnamese
students on July 15 completed a one-month internship programme in
During the
programme, the students had the opportunity to practice soft skills, such as
presentation and teamwork through specialized training and practical
projects.
It was a golden
opportunity for students to make friends, learn more and become familiar with
other ASEAN cultures and people, and get advice as well as one-on-one support
and guidance from a senior mentor at SCG.
To participate in
the internship programme, students had to complete and submit an application,
write an essay, and go through an interview selection process with the
organizers.
Kiti Madiloggovit,
corporate human resources director of SCG, said he was glad to know thousands
of students across
This is the second
time SCG has organised the programme following the success of last year’s
event. The programme is one of SCG’s activities to mark human resources
development in the process of business expansion into
SCG, one of the
leading conglomerates in the ASEAN region, comprises three core businesses:
SCG Chemicals, SCG Paper, and SCG Cement-Building Materials. The company has
over 200 affiliates under its umbrella and more than 40,000 employees.
SCG began its
regional expansion in
First
Japanese composite fishing boat launched
The first composite
vessel for Japanese Yanmar Company’s pilot project to supply 180 vessels to
Vietnamese fishermen to help them increase tuna yield and quality was
officially launched on July 28.
The first fishing
boat, YANMAR 01, was launched in the central coastal
The boat, 18m long,
4.5m wide and 2.5m high, has a capacity of 350CV running at an average
speed of 11.5 nautical miles per hour.
OVs in
The Vietnamese
Embassy in
Ambassador To Anh
Dung reported on
Dung answered OVs’
questions and acknowledged their proposals regarding the ongoing struggle for
national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The Vietnamese
Embassy has stimulated Canadians and international friends to support
Participants at the
meeting agreed that national solidarity is a decisive factor in helping the
nation overcome difficulty as history has proven.
At the meeting OVs
donated more than CAD5,000 to coast guard, law enforcement forces and
fishermen at home.
OVs in
Vietnam is among
nine countries in the Western Pacific region that face the most serious
threat of viral hepatitis, a “silent” disease that causes a severe impact on
public health, experts said at a meeting in south-central Vietnam last
weekend.
According to the
World Health Organization (WHO), the other eight countries are
The warning was
released at the 9th National Liver Conference, which was held in Nha Trang
City of Khanh Hoa Province on Friday last week, drawing more than 300
delegates from major hospitals and universities in
Addressing the
event, which was organized to mark World Hepatitis Day (July 28), Dr. Dinh
Quy Lan, chairman of the Vietnam Hepatic Association, warned that viral hepatitis
kills about 1.4 million people around the world per year – close to the
number of deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, and more than those brought about by
malaria and tuberculosis.
In addition, every
year sees about 500 million people suffering from cirrhosis of the liver or
liver cancer caused by viral hepatitis, Dr. Lan said.
In the Western
Pacific region alone, the hepatitis B virus is responsible for almost 900
deaths per day, according to the WHO.
Although placed
among the nine Western Pacific countries that suffer the most from viral
hepatitis,
More than 50
percent of newborn babies have been vaccinated against hepatitis B in the
past 10 years, thus remarkably lowering the rate of infection, they said,
adding that no hepatitis A and E epidemics have broken out during the past 30
years.
Besides, many liver
transplant cases have successfully been performed in
At the conference,
experts presented 30 papers focusing on symptoms and treatment of liver and
gall diseases, hepatitis B and C prevention, and liver transplants.
These experts also
provided useful, basic information about liver inflammation.
“Improving the knowledge
of viral hepatitis among the public is one of the effective ways to prevent
the disease in communities,” Dr. Lan said.
“In fact, many
people with viral hepatitis, mainly hepatitis B, do not know why and when
they were infected with it; thus it is nicknamed ‘the silent killer’,” the
doctor said.
Viral hepatitis is
an inflammation of the liver caused by one of the five hepatitis viruses: A,
B, C, D and E, experts said.
The five hepatitis
viruses are transmitted through different routes: hepatitis A and E through
contaminated food and water; hepatitis B through blood and other bodily
fluids; and hepatitis C and D mostly through blood, they said.
These viruses can
all cause acute hepatitis, but most people fully recover from acute
infection. However, hepatitis B and C infection can lead to chronic liver
disease, the most common cause of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, according
to the WHO.
More rural
households can use fresh water: urgent action
It is an urge to
supply at least 60 liter of fresh water per person a day in the
At an annual online
meeting about clean water and environment sanitation in rural districts held
last week, deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai stressed that global climate
change will deduce the degradation of fresh water resources and environment
hygiene; it will threat to people’s health condition.
Accordingly, fresh
water supply is very important for living quality in the countryside areas
and it is one of the targets of Millennium Development Goals, Hai added.
Some provinces such
as the Mekong delta provinces of An Giang, Kien Giang, the central
State Prime
Minister has approved the national strategy for clean water and basic
sanitation from 2000 to 2020 both aims at improving people’s living condition
and helping increase socio-economic growth in the country. The strategy
includes many phases.
This year’s phase
requires 85 percent of rural households to access to clean water, 65 percent
of using standard toilets, 45 percent of hygienic breeding farms and most of
schools and medical clinics having enough water and toilets.
After fifteen year
implementation of the program, it have improved habits of using clean water
and standard toilet instead of open defecations into residents in the
countryside. Besdies, as many as private companies have invested in providing
fresh water to over 500,000 residents in Dong Thap, Tien Giang, Logn An in
the Mekong delta and Hung Yen, Hai Duong provinces in the North and rural
regions nationwide.
Universities
adapt ahead of ASEAN Community
Using case studies
in university curricula will help meet the need for a highly qualified
workforce in the ASEAN Economic Community that takes effect next year, a
professor of
Prof. Bui Thi Minh
Hang said that
Hang, who spoke at
a workshop on building academic bridges held on July 28 by
A lack of real-life
understanding of the workplace hampered students' knowledge and ability,
while there were few opportunities to practice management skills, she said.
Hang said that
She added that
conferences or workshops on case study methods for business and social
management faculties should be organised.
The VNU-HCM plans
to develop case studies for its members and training managers for enterprises
under the assistance of Singapore Management University (SMU).
The two
universities on July 28 signed an agreement to enhance their academic
strengths and promote economic, legal and education cooperation between
In the agreement,
SMU will help train case writing teams on business and law topics in
VNU-HCM will assist
SMU by providing advice, contacts and references and CMP will add the
Vietnamese case studies to its database.
In addition, they
will create a student/faculty exchange programme, a joint Master's/PhD
programme, and provide business services to the community such a legal
consulting.
SMU will assist in
setting up a centre for management practice at VNU-HCM.
Foot-and-mouth
disease strikes livestock in central
Duc Tho District of
the central
Foot-mouth disease
has affected multi domestic animals of four houses in
An investigation showed
that a cow in a herd of cattle of Bui Xuan Tiep in the village had felt in
illness six days after being bought from the
Local authority disinfected
the environment in farms and issued warning that this is infected
foot-and-mouth disease. Health watchdog acted quickly to vaccinate to more
than 300 cows in the locality. Control stations were set up to forbid the
sale, transportation and slaughter of diseased animals to other areas.
People
should not eat snail: Food watchdog
The Food
Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health July 27 said that some
people died because of eating snail as food or medications.
Lately, hospitals
in the central city of
Consequently,
people should not follow folk wisdom or baseless rumor to serve snail as a
food. People should not absolutely eat raw snail, or underdone.
Residents should
conduct environment sanitation, kill rats and snail to curb biological life
cycle of nematode worm A. cantonensis to prevent diseases. If people suffer
symptoms such as fever, headache, stomachache, vomiting and rash, they should
go to nearby medical clinics to receive timely treatment.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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Thứ Ba, 29 tháng 7, 2014
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