Hospital leaders continue to bemoan bidding and procurement of drugs and services remaining a slow and costly process, but new regulations may help ease the pain.
While central-level hospitals in Vietnam are taking drastic measures to ensure the supply of drugs and medical equipment amid growing number of patients, more solutions are needed to tackle these issues.
Ten children were among the 56 people killed in a blaze in a Hanoi high-rise, police said Thursday, which some residents desperately tried to escape by jumping out of upper stories, according to witnesses.
Ten children were among the 56 people killed in a blaze in a Hanoi high-rise, police said Thursday, which some residents desperately tried to escape by jumping out of upper stories, according to witnesses. Authorities have still not released the cause of the fire, which broke out just before midnight Tuesday and wasn't extinguished until Wednesday morning in the nine-story apartment building in Vietnam's capital. With the fire out, only incense burned Thursday morning outside the building at a makeshift shrine set up by friends and relatives to pay their respects to the dead.
Dozens of people died in a fire at an apartment block in the capital Hanoi, state media said, with witnesses reporting screams from inside and a small boy thrown from the building.