Public health

A sexual assault on a female official at a small state-run hospital has raised concerns about the safety of health workers. The female nurse was physically and sexually molested by a teenager who turned up at a tambon-level health promotion hospital in Bueng Kan province at ...

Seventeen adults and 42 children from a village in Battambang province were hospitalized with suspected poisoning on Tuesday after possibly drinking contaminated water, a police official said on Wednesday. The 59 patients, all from Kroper Tbong village in Banan district’s Phnom Sampov commune, were treated ...

Vietnam is a large cosmetics market with turnover of $1.1 billion last year, but there is now little room for Vietnamese manufacturers. The founder of La House, a cosmetics brand, has complained about the difficulties of opening shops at large shopping malls. The owners of malls ...

The number of methanol poisoning cases has surged over the past three months compared with previous years, according to information presented at a workshop Monday in Hà Nội on the effect of alcohol abuse and the treatment of methanol poisoning. Addressing the event sponsored by the Việt ...

More than 30 people, mostly children, were hospitalized with food poisoning on Sunday in Battambang town. Health Ministry spokesperson Dr. Ly Sovann, who is also the director of communicable diseases control department, said most of the patients were discharged yesterday after receiving treatment from provincial ...

More than 100,000 cloth bags have been donated to Wat Bot district Hospital in response its request for environmentally friendly bags to replace plastic ones previously used for prescribed medication. The management of the public hospital stopped distributing medication in plastic bags this year as ...

Brick-kilns in residential quarters – and those using fossil fuel materials – in the southern province of Đồng Nai must close no later than the end of this year, chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Trần Văn Vĩnh announced in a conference in the province. ...

Twenty-seven monks and nuns from Battambang province’s Bavel district were struck with food poisoning after consuming large amounts of soy milk. District police chief Oeum Tith said on April 6 that 14 monks and 13 nuns from the Bavel pagoda started showing symptoms of food poisoning ...

The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation to Laos are marking World Health Day, which is observed annually on April 7. The day provides a unique opportunity to mobilise action around a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world. ...

Three private hospitals and a travel agency have inked a memorandum of understanding with the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC) to  promoting healthcare services. The partnership will allow MHTC to improve access to healthcare services in Malaysia for Myanmar citizens, promote its representative office and ...