Figures from the Ministry of Health estimate that around 9,680 medical workers have quit their jobs in the first six months of this year. Of them, 2,874 are nurses.

Many medical workers in the city have quit their jobs, and resignations still continue.

A strong move of medical workers from public medical facilities to private ones in Vietnam was seen more clearly over the last two years when the country coped with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.

Acting Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan has released a written response to voters’ questions on many issues, including wages and allowances for medical workers and health insurance.

After six years of studying at university and 18 months of practicing, a doctor at a public hospital receives a salary and allowance of VND4.8 million. But the incomes of medical workers at private hospitals are 3-6 times higher.

Medical workers are giving up their jobs with income of VND4 million (US$180) a month to become Grab taxi motorbike drivers which allows them to earn VND400,000 ($18) a day.

With great efforts in the fight against Covid-19, medical workers have been honored as heroes.

The intense heat in northern Vietnam in the past few days has made the job of Vietnamese health workers in hospitals and quarantine sites more difficult.

The Voice of Ho Chi Minh City, together with the municipal Health Department hosted the first Vietnam medical achievement award ceremony on February 26 to honour 16 contributions to the community’s wellbeing in 2020 from across the nation.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son speaks to vietnamplus.vn about how health workers dealt with the resurgence of COVID-19 in the central city of Da Nang last year, which marked the second wave of COVID-19 in Vietnam 

Vietnam’s most critically ill COVID-19 patient, a British pilot with Vietnam Airlines named Stephen Cameron, is expected to be discharged from hospital and return to his homeland in the UK soon, doctors at Cho Ray Hospital have said.

The Da Nang Hospital for Lung Diseases has recently received and treated patients with fever and, possibly, COVID-19. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta faces a severe lack of medical specialists, especially in life-threatening fields such as tuberculosis and leprosy.

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  In the warm atmosphere of the Lunar New Year Festival, people like to stay with their families. However, many doctors and nurses must continue their work over Tet.

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VietNamNet Bridge – At least 20 health workers in Thanh Hoa, a province in central Vietnam, have been detected using fake certificates and diplomas. Many of them had conducted examination and treatment services.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health has reported that at least 14 medical workers had been assaulted since the beginning of 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite a ban, several types of home gender prediction tests are still sold illicitly online at high prices.