More hospitals in Vietnam have begun using high technologies for digital transformation, which is expected to radically reform the healthcare sector.

Measures to speed up digital transformation in health care, finance-banking and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were discussed at symposiums held on December 15 in the framework of the 2020 Vietnam Digital Transformation Day (DX Day 2020).

Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan will begin recruiting first year students from central Vietnam to work and study in healthcare services from 2021.

HeartBeat Vietnam, VinaCapital Foundation (VFC)’s healthcare programme, has funded 8,000 life-saving operations for disadvantaged children with congenital heart defects in Vietnam since the programme was launched in 2006.

VOV.VN - The Chinese government has donated a shipment of 320,000 medical masks to Vietnam to help the country prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the community.

VOV.VN - A group consisting of more than 400 tourists who had been left stranded in Da Nang as a result of the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic were successfully brought home to Hanoi on August 12.

Some 8 million face masks will be presented to healthcare workers, police officers and border guard forces, and people in difficult circumstances during the fight against COVID-19, under a project funded by the CP Vietnam Corporation’s charitable fund.

VOV.VN - The investigation agency of Dong Nai province in southern Vietnam has arrested three people after a wall of a construction site collapsed on May 14, killing 10 workers and injuring more than 10 others.