Public health

(KPL) Last year witnessed a reduction in mother mortality rate to 129 from 151 recorded in 2017, according to a report of the Ministry of Health.“We record a lower mother mortality rate because mother healthcare is more accessible and more mothers realise the importance of ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Waste management in hospitals remains a challenge because most health facilities in Laos do not have waste disposal systems that are comply with international hygiene standards.A senior official from the Healthcare and Rehabilitation Department of the Ministry of Health, Dr Viengsavanh ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The number of people newly infected with HIV in 2018 was double the number in 2017 among at-risk groups, according to a health official.Country Programme Manager of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation Laos, Ms Chintana Somkhane, said records showed that from 1990-2018 ...

(KPL) The government of Japan has provided grant assistance worth over US$ 320,000 for an oral health service programme in Vientiane Capital, Vientiane, Borikhamxay, Khammuan and Savannakhet.The signing ceremony for the project’s grant contract was held at Japanese Embassy in Vientiane on Feb 13, 2019, ...

The government has allocated a budget of over 2,800 billion kip for capacity development and improvement of the health sector in 2019.The funding will assist with fulfilment of the five-year Health Sector Development Plan (2016-2020) and the health-related Millennium Development Goals.More ...

SIX MONTHS AFTER the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoi hydropower dam in southern Laos triggered floods that swept them from their homes, survivors are now suffering from dengue fever and malnutrition.More ...

Construction of a six-storey hospital in Paek district, Xieng Khuang province, costing more than 82 billion kip is nearly half complete.The building is now 42 percent complete after work began in 2017, with completion expected in 2020.The hospital will have an outpatient department, wards containing ...

(KPL) The government of Japan has provided grant assistance worth over 217,000 US dollars for supporting the project dedicated to empower people with disabilities in the Lao PDR.The signing ceremony for a grant contract for this project was held at the Japanese Embassy on Jan ...

(KPL) The government of Japan has provided grant assistance worth over US$ 281,000 for a pediatric project in Huaphan Province, northern Laos.The project entitled “Enhancement of pediatric systems in Huaphan Province through capacity building of health personnel and of village health promoters,” is in its ...

Health officials say some small, privately run clinics owned or operated by foreign entities will be ordered to close by the end of this year after they were found to be in breach of the regulations.The closures will reduce the number of public complaints the ...