Hazardous medical waste, much of it contaminated with infectious agents, is often sold to scrap dealers . They in turn bring the waste to recycling workshops, where workers create consumer goods for daily use.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Within two weeks, seven patients died of mushroom poisoning at the Poison Control Center of the Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 240 people have tested positive to measles in 24 provinces since the beginning of the year, including three child fatalities, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health (MoH).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Tinh, 40, looked around with glassy eyes.
He was suffering more than a normal hangover.

VietNamNet Bridge – Following a World Health Organization's warning of the Corona Virus, the Ministry of Health on May 31 sent a dispatch to all hospitals across the country asking to raise awareness of the new virus strain.

VietNamNet Bridge – Her heart almost ceased activity completely for 12 hours, the patient was close to death but she was lucky to escape the hands of death miraculously.

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VietNamNet Bridge - Doctors of the Hanoi Cardiovascular Institute (Bach Mai Hospital) have saved a patient with an uncommon heart disease, which has a high mortality rate.