Social News 26/10 Deadline set for elevated train service Nguyen Hong Truong, Deputy Minister of Transport, on Wednesday set the deadline for the official commissioning of the Cat Linh – Ha Dong Elevated Train in late 2016. The China Railway Sixth Group is the project's main contractor – the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction). According to Le Kim Thanh, general director of the Railway Project Management Unit, some 66 per cent of the project has been completed. However, Cat Linh station and the Depot, the project's two main components, are expected to be completed in June, 2016. Reasoning why the project is behind schedule, Yu Jiang, director of the Chinese EPC shifted the blame on sub-contractors' failure to mobilise human resources to undertake the work in the La Thanh and Thai Ha stations. He said "the construction of the La Thanh station requires between 60 to 80 workers, but at present only 35 workers are working. Or in the case of Thai Ha station, it needs 50 workers, but only 30 people are working." Relating to the delay in the exhibition of the model train, Le KimThanh, the project director general said the model train is now already in Hai Phong port and waiting for customs clearance. It is projected that the model train will be displayed at the Giang Vo exhibition center in late October, 2015, instead of October 20 as it was previously planned. Thanh attributed the exhibition delay of the model train to the cumbersomeness of the customs procedures involved in the temporarily import of the model train. Furthermore, he added, the model train had not been written in the official project document at the beginning. To meet the project deadline as stated by Deputy Minister Nguyen Hong Truong, the Chinese EPC director asked all the sub-contractors to work 24 hours a day. He promised to step up regular on site checks to help solve any problems arising from the sub-contractors. According to schedule, nine stations will be completed in the first quarter of 2016. The remaining three stations of Cat Linh, Vanh dai 3 (the third ring road) and Van Khe will be completed in June, 2016. But the La Khe station model must be ready before December 2015 for people to visit and give their feedback. "On September 30, 2016 the maiden trip of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated train will be launched and by late 2016, the train will officially be put into operation" Truong said. Financing model boosts healthcare service quality The performance-based financing (PBF) model in the health sector helped improve providers' health services during a trial run, experts said at a conference which ended yesterday in Ha Noi. The two-day conference, titled "Performance-based financing in health: sharing regional experiences in Southeast Asia," was held under a project that supports health care for low-income families in Cao Bang and Bac Kan provinces. It's often called project VIE/ 027, financed with official development assistance from the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Conference attendees shared their experiences implementing the PBF model in Viet Nam and neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. Performance-based financing is a mechanism by which health providers are funded according to how well they perform, says the WHO's website. As health facilities are remunerated in line with their output, they have strong incentives to satisfy users. Granted more autonomy in exchange for greater accountability, health facilities can tailor initiatives to the populations they serve, according to the WHO. In the last two to three years, two PBF pilot initiatives have been conducted in Viet Nam. Result-based financing (RBF) has been used in the central province of Nghe An with support from the World Bank since May 2013. And PBF model has been implemented in Cao Bang and Bac Kan provinces with support from the Luxembourg Agency for Development Co-operation (LuxDev) since April 2014. During the conference, international and domestic representatives shared their experiences and lessons learned about PBF implementation, data verification, monitoring progress and impact evaluation, and held round tables on the future sustainability of the PBF mechanism. Be Thi Bach, deputy director of the project management board in Cao Bang Province, said the PBF model helped improve the effectiveness of preventive medicine and management of non-infectious diseases at communes' medical stations. Hoang Van Hao, deputy director of the Nghe An Department of Health, said that thanks to the RBF model, health checks and treatment improved incredibly. Medicines were kept in good condition, waste treatment improved and medical documents were managed more effectively, he said. But the RBF model still lacked supervision. Hao said that the next time more medical workers from the provincial Department of Health would be assigned to supervise the model implementation to uphold its results. Outbreak of waxworms harms crops in Bac Kan An outbreak of waxworms this season damaged crops and resulted in huge losses for farmers in the northern province of Bac Kan. Waxworms, the larvae of wax moths, have invaded 1,800ha over a 40,000 ha planting area of Magnolia conifera (Mo), one of two key plants of the province, according to the local Agriculture and Rural Development Department, Dang Van Son. Mo are planted in a vast area due to their easy growth, durability and salability, but they now stand bare, stripped of leaves. All seven districts and one town in the province reported a waxworm attack. Nong Van Hung, a farmer in Phong Huan commune, said his family planted 4ha of Mo trees. Normally, he can harvest the plants after two years and make a turnover of VND340 million (US$15,178) to VND400 million ($17,857). Like many others, Hung is facing the risk of a waxworm breakout. Last year, over 18.4 tonnes of pupas, worms and worm eggs had been collected. Dang Thi Anh Tho, general director of Ba Be District's Agriculture and Rural Development Sub-Department, said waxworms grow at a rapid pace. In the adult stage, a worm can produce 100 eggs, and the rate of hatchability is high. She added that such worms can spread across a vast area. Growers can collect about 1kg of worms in a single tree. After attacking the top and leaves of the tree, the worms then scrub the tree skin. As a result, the trees will die or face stunted growth. Although the province and local people have adapted various measures to prevent waxworms from destroying the trees, their efforts have not been fruitful. Bac Kan has spent VND1.2 billion ($53,570) on insect-killer machines, sprays and research in an attempt to eliminate this type of worm. In addition, the province collected worms hand-picked by local people for the price of VND50,000 ($2.23) per kg initially, which was then reduced to VND15,000 ($0.67). Ma Van Tu, a grower in Bang Lu town, said he and many other farmers used various types of insect repellents and sticky traps, but were not successful. As the volume of worms continued to grow and showed no sign of stopping, some districts depleted their budgets. Son admitted that no measure has been successful to date. Ha Van Hinh, vice chairman of the People's Committee of Phong Huan commune, said many households have stopped investing in and expanding the planted area. The province advised farmers to switch to other plant species to avoid the worms. However, farmers said that if scientists can find measures to stop the worms, they are willing to continue planting this tree. Delta farmers expand shrimp breeding areas Farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have resumed breeding of shrimp as they expect the price will increase at the end of the year when exporters need more raw materials. In Ca Mau Province's Phu Tan District, many farmers had reduced their shrimp cultivation area because of low prices. Nguyen Thanh Lam, who cultivates shrimp on two hectares of land in Tan Phu's Phu Hung Commune, bred shrimp in only two ponds (about 3,000 sq.m) during the last crop. Tran Quoc Yen, deputy head of the Phu Tan Agriculture and Rural Development Department, said: "Most farmers here raise white-legged shrimp. After this year's first shrimp crop faced low prices, many farmers stopped breeding." "In the ongoing third shrimp crop, many farmers have switched to breeding black-tiger shrimp, which have more stable prices," he said. Farmers in Phu Tan have bred about 1,700ha of shrimp for this year's third crop. Ca Mau has 9,200ha devoted to industrial shrimp farming, but only 4,100 ha has been used by farmers for this purpose, according to the province's Aquatic Cultivation Sub-department. Nguyen Quoc Cong, head of the Sub-department's Aquatic Cultivation Division, said the area of shrimp cultivation would expand from now to the year end. Ngo Thanh Linh, chairman of the Ca Mau Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers, said importers had offered better prices because the demand for raw shrimp materials increased at the year-end. In Kien Giang Province, the area for industrial and semi-industrial shrimp farming models had reached 1,886 ha of the zone area of 3,000ha, according to the province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Nguyen Van Tam, director of the department, said many companies and farmers had increased their cultivation area because of an expected rise in prices. Vuong Thanh Dung, who has two hectares of industrial shrimp farming area in Ha Tien Town's Thuan Yen Commune in Kien Giang, said: "The price of shrimp always go up at the end of the year as shrimp processors increase their production to meet export orders." Lower prices also occur as a result of combined rice and shrimp farming during the first two shrimp crops. Under this model, farmers plant rice in the rainy season, and in the dry season, let saline water enter fields to farm shrimp. Kien Giang has the largest rice-shrimp farming area in the delta, about 80,000 ha, according to the province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. The delta has more than 160,000ha of rice-shrimp farming, yielding an average profit of VND60-70 million (US$2,800 – 3,300) per hectare a year, according to the Directorate of Fisheries. Kien Giang, Ca Mau, Bac Lieu and Soc Trang provinces have the largest areas of rice-shrimp farms in coastal areas. Ha Noi to upgrade water plant The Ha Noi People's Committee and Ha Noi Clean Water Supply Company began upgrading the Bac Thang Long-Van Tri water plant in Dong Anh District on Thursday. The upgrade work aims to supply about 30,000cu.m of water per day to the plant, helping it to operate at its planned capacity of 50,000cu.m per day, Nguyen Bao Vinh, director of the company, said. The work, expected to be completed in six months with a total investment of more than VND152 billion (US$6.9 million), will exploit the waters of the Hong (Red) River. The project is part of the road map for reducing the use of groundwater. Prevention of prostitution falls short of expectation: conference The prevention of prostitution has failed to meet expectation, delegates said at a conference in Hanoi on October 23 reviewing the five-year implementation of an action plan on prostitution prevention and control. It was reported at the conference that there are more than 11,000 prostitutes on record in the country, but the actual figure may be higher as the social evil is difficult to keep under control. Hotbeds of prostitution are the Red River Delta region, the southeast region and the Mekong River Delta. According to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), the Government and the National Committee for Prevention and Control of AIDS, Drugs and prostitution have required authorities of localities prone to the social evil, including Hanoi, Hai Phong, Nam DInh and Ho Chi Minh City, to take prompt action. Ten units and 63 individuals have been disciplined for their poor performance in curbing prostitution. Delegates reported that the enforcement of laws against prostitution is not stringent enough, adding that punishment for sex buyers is only restricted to fines payment or verbal warning, while many law stipulations are no longer suitable with reality and not effective to counter arising problems such as sex tours, foreign sex workers, male prostitutes or sex services on the Internet. They asked for filling loopholes in laws and intervening measures by providing sex workers with equal access to social services and support to switch job, making it easier for them to reintegrate into the community. The action plan for 2016-2020 targets that 60 percent of cities and provinces will incorporate prostitution combat into their socio-economic schemes. Vietnamese lifer released on bail after 18 years in jail, pending re-probe The prosecutor’s office in the south-central province of Binh Thuan has granted bail to a lifer who had served nearly 18 years in jail on murder charges, after his life sentence was canceled last year, pending a re-investigation. Huynh Van Nen, 53, was released yesterday under a decision of the local People’s Procuracy that said it was no longer necessary to continue detaining Nen, who is now sick. After picking Nen up at the prison in Phan Thiet City, which is the provincial capital, his relatives took him to a local hospital for a health examination before bringing him home in Ham Tan District. The granting of bail to Nen is an indication that he might have been wrongfully convicted of a murder that happened in 1998, according to an official at the prosecutor’s office. In talking with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper after being released on bail, Nen affirmed that he had been given unjust punishment not only in that case but also in another. “I am now very happy to meet my relatives again,” Nen said. According to the case file, Nen was arrested on May 17, 1998 for killing Le Thi Bong, a woman of Ham Tan, on April 23, 1998. During the investigation into the case, police indicted Nen for killing another local woman, Duong Thi My, on March 19, 1993. In 2000, the provincial People’s Court sentenced Nen to life imprisonment for murdering Bong and also condemned him to six years in jail for killing My. Nine relatives of the man received sentences for involvement in the murder of My. Five years later, law enforcement agencies announced that Nen was not the killer of the woman and then released and gave compensation to his nine relatives. Meanwhile, Nen continued serving his life sentence in jail. In October 2014, the Supreme People’s Procuracy issued a protest against the verdict on Nen after receiving an accusation that another man, Nguyen Tho, could be the real killer of Bong. The top procuracy concluded that the provincial court had sentenced Nen without firm grounds and had seriously violated the criminal procedures in dealing with the case. The Supreme People’s Court later bowed to the protest, announced a cancelation of Nen’s verdict, and requested that provincial police re-investigate the murder. Over the past several years, many lawyers have offered free legal consultancy and defense to Nen, demanding that police officers and the prosecutor’s office clarify 11 issues related to the case.   The lawyers also required that law enforcement bodies suspend the case and free the man, who has continuously said he fell victim to miscarriage of justice. 40,000 state-owned cars a colossal budget waste in Vietnam The Ministry of Finance has submitted a new regulation regarding the use of public-owned automobiles by state officials in Vietnam to the Prime Minister for approval to lessen wastefulness, an office chief under the ministry recently told a press meeting. Tran Duc Thang, head of the Department of Public Asset Management under the Ministry of Finance, said at the Friday press conference, organized to report a new policy on the management of public automobiles, that 40,000 state-owned cars are currently in use in the country. The outsized fleet, which excludes cars utilized by state-owned enterprises, is mostly found at state administrative agencies. The large number is put down to such agencies’ purchase exceeding what is allowed, and their improper use and liquidation of the vehicles, Thang noted. The fleet costs an average of VND320 million (US$13,843) on maintainance each year. The finance ministry has recently submitted Decision 32 to the Prime Minister for approval in an effort to redress the problem. The decision, which includes a new regulation as to the quota of state-owned cars at state administrative agencies and how they should be used, aims to ensure no increase in the number. Specifically, replacement is only permitted for cars with 15 years of use instead of 10 years as stipulated in the current regulation, or those which have covered at least 250,000 kilometers, with their safety levels no longer ensured. A state administrative agency is armed with one or two cars at most. Leaders of localities will be required to check on the number of state-owned vehicles at such agencies, and have some of them transferred to others which are short of such vehicles. They are also asked to hand the automobiles back to the finance ministry for more transferal or sale. According to Thang, the new regulation also stipulates more articulately about who are entitled to the use of state-owned cars. Only top-notch leaders, such as deputy ministers and above, are eligible for the use. Only provincial sectaries and their deputies, and chairs of provincial People’s Committees and Councils are allowed to ride on public cars from home to their workplace. Other high-ranking leaders, including heads of departments, except in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, are not authorized to such rides, according to the proposed decision. Thang expected that the new decision would cut the number of state-owned automobiles by 7,000 cars, and save approximately VND500 billion ($21.6 million) per year for the national budget. Mekong Delta expects 150 “special” medical experts The Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy (CTUMP) expects to have 150 graduates who specialise in tuberculosis, forensics, leprosy, anatomical pathology and psychopathology by 2020 to ease the Mekong Delta’s extreme shortage of specialised physicians. According to Prof. Pham Van Linh, the university’s rector, this number will satisfy only 15% of demand, as the region now needs about 1,000 experts in these subjects. Very few students pursued a degree in these specialties, as they would have to work long, irregular hours and face various health hazards, including constant exposure to infections and diseases. In additional, preferential policies are not attractive enough due to a lack of state funding. Deputy Head of the Southwestern Steering Committee Nguyen Quoc Viet stressed the need to offer more financial incentives to medical specialists, because their salary range is relatively lower than those in other areas of medicine. He urged for more financial support from the Government to help the CTUMP improve its facilities. He also suggested the university increase the length of apprentice training in these five programmes. The Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy said the delta had the lowest doctor-to-patient ratio in the country. More than 70 communes in Kien Giang province have no doctors, while Soc Trang province has 3.89 doctors per 10,000 residents. In 2014, the rate of medical workers increased to 6.17 doctors and 1.13 pharmacists per 10,000 residents, compared to 4.26 doctors per 10,000 residents and 0.22 pharmacists per 10,000 residents in 2008. To ensure the target of nine doctors and two pharmacists per 10,000 people, the university should train an additional 5,800 doctors and 2,400 pharmacists by 2020, according to Linh. However, statistics from the University show that for the 17.6 million people in the region, there are only 9,200 doctors and 1,200 pharmacists. This represents a rate of only 5.27 doctors and 0.73 pharmacists per 10,000. To comply with the decision, the area would need more than 3,000 doctors and 655 pharmacists. CFVG inaugurates new campus in Ho Chi Minh City The French - Vietnamese Center for Management Education (CFVG) on October 23 inaugurated its new campus in Ho Chi Minh City. The new campus, located at 91 Ba Thang Hai Street in District 10 has the usable area of nearly 3,000 square meters, and will be officially put into operation from November 1 with the approval of the Ministry of Education and Training and the support of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh city. The new campus will be used for CFVG during the next 20 years, Prof. - Dr. Jean Louis Pare, CFVG president of board of directors, said in his opening remarks. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, French Ambassador to Vietnam Jean-Noël Poirier, expressed that he believed the new campus will meet the demand of CFVG in the future. Established in 1992, CFVG is the result of collaboration between Vietnamese Government and the French Government, and is performed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Paris Ile de France (CCIP). It is implemented at the Hanoi-based National Economics University and the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. The center hopes to give young Vietnamese managers access to the leading educational institutions in France with postgraduate education in the areas of management, finance and marketing. In April 2008, CFVG’s Master of Business Administration became the first and only master program in Vietnam qualified for the EPAS international standard. EPAS is an international program accreditation system operated by the Brussels-based European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). It aims to evaluate the quality of any business and/or management program that has an international perspective and, where of an appropriately high quality, to accredit it. Hanoi wants to reduce buses during rush hours In its latest attempt to solve traffic congestion which has been obviously worsening over the years, Hanoi's transport authority now plans to reduce the number of bus services during rush hours. The plan will target buses that have to travel pass public construction sites, Nguyen Hoang Hai, director of the city's center for urban transport management, said at a recent meeting. According to figures from Hanoi's traffic police, 11 infrastructure projects are taking place around Hanoi with 27 construction sites. At the sites, barriers are established for safety, but since they take up a considerable part of street areas, traffic is badly affected, police said, estimating that 23 spots near the sites are prone to congestion. In another proposal, Dao Vinh Thang, chief of the city's traffic police division, said some routes can be changed to make sure buses do not enter congestion-prone spots. He said without designated lanes, whenever a bus makes a stop, a whole line of vehicles behind it will be blocked. Speaking at the meeting, Vu Van Vien, director of Hanoi's transport department, voiced his support. Even though buses can help transport a lot of people, they are also one of the reasons for congestion during rush hours, he said. Fewer buses may mean that passengers have to wait for more than 20 minutes instead of 5-10 minutes, but it is still better than hours in traffic jams, Vien said. At the meeting, Hanoi's transport authority also slammed contractors of public construction projects for delays which have worsened traffic congestion. The Republic of Korean contractor Daelim of the elevated railway project Nhon-Hanoi, for instance, was fined VND75 million ($3,300) for sluggish work. Hanoi reported nearly 15,000 new motorbikes and 4,000 new cars every month. Increasing traffic congestion becomes less in the eye of authorities Residents in Ho Chi Minh City have blamed that traffic congestion has taken place more frequently but the city’s Traffic Safety Committee said there was only one case of traffic congestion in 2014 and none case has ever occurred in the first seven months this year. The conclusion from the specialized agency comes from its own definition for traffic jam that is different from the common sense widely used by the masses. Traffic police and the committee said that traffic jam is only admitted when vehicles stand motionless during 30 consecutive minutes on street. By that way of conception, authorities cleverly bring optimism to the problem that has been more and more severe recently. However, the definition has not obtained agreement from all State officials. Tran Quang Lam, vice director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport, admitted that the report of the above committee was imprecise because more cases of congestion have not been recorded and included in. The department judged that the traffic situation in the city has become clearly worsened since September, he said. Traffic jam has regularly occurred at gateway streets of the city, and on roads leading to ports, railway stations, airport, and key crossroads during peak hours, according to Lam. The degradation has been even added by flooding after rains and the start of new school year in September. The crossroads mostly congested can be named as the roundabouts Nguyen Thai Son – Pham Van Dong in Phu Nhuan District, Hang Xanh in Binh Thanh District, Lang Cha Ca in Tan Binh District. According to the transport department, Ho Chi Minh City now has a total of 24 ‘hot spots’ of traffic jam, especially during rush hour. Actually, Ho Chi Minh City has become more and more crowded for vehicles. Every year, the city is added with only two percent of road surface but the amount of vehicles surge up by ten percent. In the meantime, the amount of passengers using public means of transport has decreased. It is estimated that the city needs VND25 trillion (US$1.1 billion) a year, excluding the cost of land clearance, for the construction of new roads and other auxiliary facilities and the situation will be improved after such five years, said Lam. During the waiting time, Lam suggested local authorities to step up checks to prevent illegal parking on streets and pavements and disband unprompted markets on streets. In addition, the means of public transport should be upgraded to offer better service. Deutsches Haus breaks ground in HCM City Hundreds gathered for a ground-breaking ceremony on October 24 at the future site of a 25-storey US$100 million Deutsches Haus (German House) project in Ho Chi Minh City. “The project offers a vivid symbol of successful cooperation between the German and Vietnam business communities and will serve as an economic hub connecting commerce of the two nations,” said German Consul General to HCM City Hans-Dieter Stell in a speech at the event. Vietnam Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang in turn spoke highly of the splendid architecture of the project saying he was confident it will not only enhance economic relations but will also serve as a cultural bridge linking the two nations peoples. The project will be located at Le Duan St in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City. HCMC honors 85 good students in 2015 Vietnam Student Association in Ho Chi Minh City organized a meeting to honor good students who have highest scores in the national university entrance examination and graduated with high marks in 2015. This year, 85 students from 62 schools in the city were honored " Good students: including 39 students coming first in the entrance examination and 46 students graduating with high scores. These students have not only overcome their hard economic condition and excelled in studying but also partaken in social activities and moverments of the Communist Youth Union in their school. For instance, student Nguyen Thong, valedictorian of Foreign Trade University, is one of two students with highest marks in the option A (those who opt to take an examination on Math, Physic, Chemistry) of the national senior high school graduation examination. Disabled student Kieu Quoc Sang from low-income family made a tireless efforts to become valedictorian of Medicine University. Student Vo Phuc Toan of Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities is valedictorian of his major History winning first prize of the school's scientific research contest and second prize of the Vietnam's history contest 2013 and he is an active deputy secretary of the school's youth communist union. Representatives of city Party Committee, Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee and the Vietnamese Student Association congratulated and honored best students. Best students are expected to make endless efforts in studying and partaking in youth communist movements to set good examples for their peers to follow. Ms Ngoc proposed leaders of party committees in schools, localities, enterprises to take care of these students to help them have good future job which they can contribute to the nation's growth. 48-hour society-benefited coding competition underway About 100 programmers, developers and social activists gathered in Hackathon for Social Good, a 48-hour coding contest to create useful technology products with commercial values for the society, in Hanoi on October 24-25. The competition was organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam, HATCH! PROGRAM – a social enterprise and startup incubator, Live & Learn Environment Education, British Council Vietnam, Humanist Institute for Cooperation (Hivos), and Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiatives (SEATTI). Competing technology products address several social issues, including employment for the youth, transparency and public service assessment, creative economy, disaster safety education and climate change. These works will be evaluated based on following criteria – innovation, feasibility, social benefits, and commercial values alongside capacity to support sustainable development. Dr. Pratibha Mahta, United Nations Resident Coordinator, said the contest is an innovative idea which has paved the way for new partnerships in fostering public participation and achieving sustainable development goals in Vietnam. Through this year’s Hackathon for Social Goods, the third edition of the contest, HATCHI! PROGRAM wishes to provide young people an insight into the promising market for social products and support them to develop information technology products towards sustainable development, Director Pham Quoc Dat stated. The competition will run through mid-night October 25. Five most outstanding teams will be selected for the exhibition and presentations on October 31 and November 1 where many investors and policymakers from Vietnam and overseas gather. Winners will be granted up to 5,000 USD. Dengue kid with heart problem saved Doctors from Children Hospital N2 in Ho Chi Minh City  saved a heart disease kid with dengue fever. The eight year old kid from the Mekong delta province of Long An was taken to the hospital when his skin turned blue, the heart beat was slow, blood pressure dropped and low level of blood platelets. Through examination, doctors diagnosed that the kid with heart problem contracted dengue fever; accordingly, they measured blood pressure to decide the rate of intravenous fluid. Treatment of the dengue kid with heart disease complicated by the development long-lasting shock, breathing problem and blood disorder, upper gastrointestinal bleeding development. Doctors made all concerted efforts to save him. After one week of intensive treatment, his condition improve. He did not suffer breathing problem and use ventilator any more. Moreover, he can drink milk. Physicians warned parents to keep an eye on their children to early discover signs of dengue fever which is on peak season. If a child contract dengue fever including sudden, high fever in two days ; severe headaches; pain behind the eyes; severe joint and muscle pain; fatigue; nausea; vomiting; skin rash, which appears two to five days after the onset of fever and Mild bleeding (such a nose bleed, bleeding gums, or easy bruising), parents should take hem to nearby medical clinics for treatment. VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri