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	Vietnam: Patient Transfer Logistical Nightmare
	VietNamNet Bridge: A 24-year-old Russian tourist was safely taken from HCM City - based Cho Ray Hospital to the Bangkok Heart hospital in a very serious situation on May 8 Wednesday. According to the Thai and Singaporean medical sources, it was the first time ever that such a transportation had taken place in the region. They said it was technically one of the most complicated air-transfers possible. The tourist, who has not been named, collapsed at the Tan Son Nhat Airport on arrival on May 1, and was diagnosed with cardiogenic shock caused by acute myocarditis. She was treated at the Tam Duc Hospital. Over the next 48 hours, the pati
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	Vietnam: ASEAN Prioritizes Disaster Management, Emergency Response
	Hanoi: Disaster management and emergency response are among top priorities of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s members and partners. The statement was made by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the opening ceremony of the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-2) to the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) in capital Hanoi on May 30 Thursday. In recent years, natural disasters occurred more frequently and unexpectedly with stronger scale and density, especially sea level rise and saline intrusion, Dung said. The signing of the AADMER has
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	Vietnam: Rescue Station to Assist Fishermen Set up on Ly Son Island
	A rescue station to assist fishermen was inaugurated on Ly Son Island in the central province of Quang Ngai on June 1. The structure took 5 months to construct at a cost of VND70 billion (US$3.34 million), mainly from Government budget. The Ministry of National Defense will provide the rescue station with a 450 ton well equipped search vessel. Doctors and medical workers will be present at all times to rescue fishermen in cases of emergency, especially during the storm season. This is the first rescue station to be established in Quang Ngai Province and the central region.
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	Vietnam: Binh Dinh Holds Large Drill to Cope with Tsunami
	About 3,700 people took part in a large maneuver of responses to tsunami and related search and rescue at sea conducted in My An Commune, Phu My District, central Binh Dinh province on August 6 Tuesday. The drill was based on a scenario in which the province must cope with a tsunami caused by a powerful earthquake in the Philippines. According to the scenario, at 7:35 am on August 6, Binh Dinh authorities received a report that an earthquake of 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale occurred undersea southwest of the Philippines’ Luzon Island. Search and rescue forces mobilized all possible facilities to search and save victims of the
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	Vietnam: Helicopters and 2,000 Participate in Earthquake Response Exercise
	Quang Nam: Nearly 2,000 people from army corps, state agencies, organizations and people from all social strata participated in a large-scale earthquake response exercise on August 27 in the central province of Quang Nam.The exercise took place on the morning of August 27, held by the Military Zone 5 High Command and the Quang Nam Provincial People’s Committee in Bac Tra My district of Quang Nam Province. This was the largest exercise so far with the participation of nearly 2,000 people. The situation assumed in this exercise is at 6:30 am on August 28, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred in Bac Tra My d
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Vietnam: Patient Transfer Logistical Nightmare

Vietnam: ASEAN Prioritizes Disaster Management, Emergency Response

Vietnam: Rescue Station to Assist Fishermen Set up on Ly Son Island

Vietnam: Binh Dinh Holds Large Drill to Cope with Tsunami

Vietnam: Helicopters and 2,000 Participate in Earthquake Response Exercise

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