Compared to dengue fever, the disease is milder, with 80% less disease. However, it is dangerous to pregnant women because it can cause small head deformities, especially in the first 3 months. In October, the Ministry of Health confirmed that a baby with a small head in Dak Lak "most likely due to Zika virus" and the first case in Vietnam with this disability related to Zika virus. Zika virus is transmitted by mosquitoes, so the most important preventive measure is to avoid mosquito bites.

 

 

 

4. Many doctors donate money to save the community

 

The twin children need to move urgently from Ha Giang to Hanoi to discuss the plan of separation surgery that poor families do not have money, morning 14/7 Doctor Nguyen Ngoc Chung, Deputy Director of Vi Xuyen General Hospital Some of the co-workers decided to wear a white blouse to the market to print a big font on the situation of the two children to appeal to the people around the donation.

 

Examine the baby Minh Anh Aperts syndrome and months after the baby does not return to treatment appointment, doctor Nguyen Xuan Anh on Facebook by transferring the request for surgery to the family. Thanks to the spread of online community, after 2 hours of sharing information, doctors and families have connected. After a post on VnExpress.net, a charity sponsored the entire cost of surgery. From here many patients with Aperts from Hai Phong, Ninh Thuan ... have contacted the doctor and supported surgery to return pretty hands.

 

On Saturday every morning, doctors from many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City gathered for the coffee shop singing the same night in the White House. The program is part of a fundraiser called "Plate of rice on the wall", inspired by the story "Cup of coffee on the wall" in Venice, Italy. There the poor want to drink coffee if they can not get money to get to the piece of paper stickers on the wall worth as the money to buy a cup of coffee. Doctors in Saigon have turned the idea of ​​coffee into a plate of Vietnamese rice because poor patients need more rice, receiving great support from the community.

 

 

 

Transparent transplants

 

On the afternoon of April 25, Cho Ray Hospital (HCMC) informed 20-year-old man in a traffic accident died brain, family agreed to donate organs and only 2 patients in Hanoi compatible with the parameters organs donated. At 5am on the morning of 26/4, the team of doctors from Viet Duc Hospital from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City to receive organs. As soon as the organs were transferred to the plane, surgical crews in Viet Duc opened the chest and abdominal cavity of two patients to ready to perform transplant immediately on organs. Male patients are transplanted heart of the guy, 64 years old who had heart failure, put stent 9 times, life time is only calculated in days. Recipients of long-term liver donor liver failure, age 54.

 

The main source of organs in our country today is from live donors, accounting for 95%. Grafting from brain dead accounts for a very small proportion. Each year, Vietnam has 10,000 traffic accidents. If one in ten donate organs, many will be saved and Vietnamese will not need to go abroad for treatment.

 

 

 

6. First use of surgical robots for adults

 

Binh Dan Hospital (HCMC) on December 10 morning inaugurated the first adult robotic surgery system in Vietnam. With four operating arms, intelligent camera head, 12x magnification vision, the surgeon can control the robot arm rotate 540 degrees, move freely in 6 angles. This is something that the human hand can not do, which helps in narrow, deep and difficult to access surgery, overcome the limitations of open surgery, endoscopy.

 

The cost for a laparoscopic surgery is about 80-100 million VND. This provides access to high-tech treatment for patients in Vietnam at a much lower cost than treatment abroad.

 

 

 

7. Raise the price of health services

 

In 2016, the health sector has twice adjusted hospital fees and applies to patients with health insurance. Since March 1, the ministries have adjusted the prices of nearly 2,000 medical technology services, including direct costs and special allowances. The 9 hospitals under the Ministry also include doctors. The average increase is about 30%.

 

The second fee adjustment was in August and November in the provinces where health insurance coverage was over 85% and over 80%. This fee will be added to the salary. The remaining provinces will apply this price in 2017.

 

In 2017 the Ministry of Health will calculate the plan to adjust the price of meals with people without health insurance card. Nearly 80% of the population have health insurance cards, 20% do not participate, most of whom have average living standards. To reduce the burden on this group, MOH recommends that people should take part in health insurance.