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Quang Nam: Three infants die at district health center

Within 20 hours, three infants died at the medical center of Phuoc Son district in the central province of Quang Nam. Doctors said that the incidents were only a coincidence.

Quang Ninh: 28-month-old boy loses arm to bear

 VietNamNet Bridge – On Monday, a baby boy in Ha Long was bitten by a bear and lost an arm.

Social News Headlines 15/3

 450 bridges to be built in rural areas nationwide; Germany funds UXO clearance in Thua Thien-Hue; Drug smugglers receive death sentences; Five hospitalised for mushroom poisoning; RoK helps Vietnam in marine research

Toothpick perforates man’s intestine

 VietNamNet Bridge - Doctors of the Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany Hospital have performed a surgery to remove a 4cm-long toothpick from the abdomen of a 53-year-old man from the northern city of Nam Dinh.

Balloon explosion sends four people to hospital

 VietNamNet Bridge – After 30 balloons exploded with a tremendous sound. Four people were burned on their faces.

Tissue, organ transplant faces difficulty due to lack of donations

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese hospitals have performed 900 kidney transplants, 23 liver and 9 heart transplants so far, while the number of patients who are in need of organ transplant is tens of thousands.

10-year-old girl killed by “petrol bomb”

 VietNamNet Bridge - After three days in the hospital, a 10 -year-old girl in the south-most province of Ca Mau with severe burns caused by a "petrol bomb" has died.

Doctors, patients cope with floods in hospital

 VietNamNet Bridge - Located on Tran Cung Road, Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Hospital E was deeply flooded after heavy rains in the past two days.

Hanoi: Fuel tank catches fire near hospital

 VietNamNet Bridge – At nearly 2pm on June 3, columns of smoke and fire covered a tank truck in a filling station on Tran Hung Dao Street, Hanoi. Over three hours later, the tanker was still burning and posed explosive threats.

Hospital overload not addressed overnight

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health needs more time to ease the heavy overload at centrally-run hospitals despite recent improvements, says Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.

Second hospital allowed performing gender redefining

The Ministry of Health has announced that the Hanoi-based National Pediatric Hospital is the second hospital in the country eligible for redefining gender. The other is the HCM City-based Children's Hospital 2.

Flesh-eating bacteria appears in Vietnam

The Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases recently received a male patient from Thai Binh who was in the state of shock, gangrene on his left arm, caused by infection of the flesh-eating bacteria Aeromonas hydropila.

Russian tourists in fighting, one died

The ill-fated Russian tourist is a man named Epghenhi, who died at 12pm on May 18 at the General Hospital of Khanh Hoa Province, after he was stabbed and seriously wounded on the morning of May 16.

False fire alarm at hospital, thousands of people panic

When a fire alarm was activated, thousands of people in the Children’s Hospital in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho stampeded to the road. The incident happened at about 9pm on May 20.

13 people died in two traffic accidents

 VietNamNet Bridge - Six people were killed and five others injured in a tragic car accident in  on May 11.

Tien Giang: Newborn baby alive, midwives say dead

Midwives required the parents to purchase plastic bags, paper and clothes to wrap the newborn baby for burial. When the parents took the baby home, they discovered that the baby was alive but she died later.

Ninh Thuan: Many people die of alcohol poisoning

VietNamNet Bridge – On May 2, several residents of Phuoc Vinh commune in the central province of Ninh Thuan got poisoning from alcohol. One was reported dead and three others were treated at a local hospital.

Hospital, factory sewage flows into Hai Phong rivers

 VietNamNet Bridge – Biggest rivers of Da Do, Gia and Re of northern port Hai Phong City, as the city's main water source, are getting seriously polluted.

Thanh Hoa: 12-year-old girl died of swine flu

A little girl from the central province of Thanh Hoa died of the H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu at the Hanoi-based Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases this morning, April 23, reported the hospital’s deputy director Nguyen Hong Ha.

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 21/4

Mekong Delta to create work for 400,000; Ministry moves to help the disabled; Transfers may help hospital crowding; Delta hospitals get medical equipment for neonatal care; Residents granted passes to park