More than 2,000 medical devices and supplies have been transported to a field storage serving COVID-19 prevention and control activities in Ho Chi Minh City - the country's current largest pandemic hotspot, and other southern localities.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Government always takes heed to and ensures medical care and health safety of foreigners in the nation, including citizens of the Republic of Korea (RoK), especially in the context of complicated nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Five national COVID-19 intensive care units (ICUs) will be set up in hospitals in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Thua Thien-Hue under a project discussed at a meeting in Hanoi on July 21.

VOV.VN - The first 30 beds at a hospital for coronavirus rehabilitation were put into operation in Ho Chi Minh City on July 15 in order to provide intensive treatment for critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City has been selected as one of 21 regional training centres of the Belgium-based International Society of Nephrology (ISN).

Social work has developed greatly at hospitals around the country, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son told a recent conference to review the last 10 years of its development held in HCM City.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on July 29 said it has delivered the first batch of medical equipment for COVID-19 treatment to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.