Smokers lungs vs healthy lungs

Before the surgery, the child, weighing only 16 kg, suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy and end-stage heart failure.

The patient received the heart from a 19-year-old brain-dead donor, with the surgery conducted on February 1.

The child’s mother thanked the family of the donor who, she said, has given her child a new life, and the dedication of doctors and nurses of the hospital.

This is the fifth heart transplant performed on a child at the hospital.

Viet Duc has performed five lung, 36 heart, 92 liver, and nearly 1,100 kidney transplants in total so far.

It is the leading center nationwide for collecting and transplanting organs. All patients are healthy and have returned to daily living.

In March 2017, a 10-year-old boy in Hanoi became the smallest heart transplant patient at that time. After getting the heart from a brain-dead donor, he is now in a stable condition.

Source: VNA

The Hanoitimes – The deal between the Danish company with Viet-Uc Seafood aims to expand the market for high-end feed products, focusing on sustainability, traceability, quality and performance.

BioMar, the Denmark-headquartered feed company, has acquired a majority share in the Vietnamese Viet-Uc Seafood Corporation, with activities in shrimp hatcheries, fish hatcheries and shrimp farming.

Viet-Uc Seafood’s shrimp factory in the southern provinces. Photo: Viet-Uc

The deal between the Danish company with Viet-Uc Seafood aims to expand the market for high-end feed products – focusing on sustainability, traceability, quality and performance, according to the Fish Site.

“Considering the performance and agility of the Vietnamese shrimp industry during the last decade, and not least during this last year of pandemic, I am sure the market holds great potential for growth,” said Carlos Diaz, CEO of BioMar Group.

Looking at market forecasts and the increasing consumer focus on healthy and sustainable seafood, the Danish group expects there will be an increasing market share for high-end feed, ensuring farmers can deliver certified products towards global retail channels.

Adding Vietnam into the equation will enable BioMar to build a strong relationship both to Vietnam and the nearby countries, as well as creating benefits from the relation between genetic and nutritional development.

“Partnering with one of the leading companies within this field to develop high performance feeds, concepts and value chain collaborations makes a lot of sense, in order to promote a positive development of the shrimp industry,” Diaz said.

Last year, BioMar signed a memorandum of understanding with Viet-Uc Seafood with the aim of establishing a partnership on aquafeed production in Vietnam, which will help Vietnam’s shrimp production be clean and traceable.

In 2020, Viet-Uc Seafood launched a high-tech shrimp farm in the northern province of Quang Ninh, and currently operates eight other hatchery facilities in the southern and central regions.

The Hanoitimes – Vietnam will watch how Facebook fulfills its commitment to complying with Vietnamese law.

Facebook must comply with Vietnamese law and should cooperate with the government in creating a secure and healthy environment, a spokeperson has said.

IT companies like Facebook are required to comply with Vietnamese law

As a foreign-invested company operating in Vietnam, Facebook has commited to complying with Vietnamese law and the government of Vietnam will see how its commitments are fulfilled, Deputy Spokesperson of Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ngo Toan Thang said at a press conference on April 23.

Vietnam has developed digital infrastructure to facilitate the operations of foreign companies and supports them in terms of telecommunications on the condition that they abide by Vietnam’s law and fulfil all tax obligations and social responsibilities, the official noted.

“IT companies should cooperate with the government in creating safe and healthy environment,” Thang said in answering a question by DPA on whether Facebook is required to limit access to contents that are deemed illegal in Vietnam.

On April 21, Reuters reported that Facebook’s local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic to a crawl until it agreed to significantly increase the censorship of “anti-state” posts for local users.

Vietnam has more than 65 million Facebook users who use this social network as the main platform for both e-commerce and expressions of political dissent, Reuters added.