Answer key for the Online Quiz Competition on Understanding the 70-Year History of the Vietnamese Health Sector in 2025
What are answers for the Online Quiz Competition on Understanding the 70-Year History of the Vietnamese Health Sector in 2025?
The Online Quiz Competition on Understanding the 70-Year History of the Vietnamese Health Sector in 2025 aims to explore the historical development of Vietnam's health sector, and understand the guidelines of the Vietnam Communist Party and the policies, laws of the State in the health sector.
The Online Quiz Competition on Understanding the 70-Year History of the Vietnamese Health Sector in 2025 will begin from February 27 to May 10, with 2 rounds of competition: Preliminary round: From February 27 to April 15; Final round: From April 16 to May 10.
Participation format: Online multiple choice. Contestants participate via the contest website (http://cuocthi70namytevn.org) using a computer, phone, or tablet with internet connection.
Below are the answers to the Online Quiz Competition on Understanding the 70-Year History of the Vietnamese Health Sector in 2025:
Question 1: In which year did Vietnam receive the Global Award from the Bloomberg Foundation for tobacco harm prevention?
A. 2016
B. 2018
C. 2019
D. 2017
Question 2: Who was the first Chairman of the Vietnam Health Trade Union?
A. Comrade Le Van Co
B. Comrade Pham Van Co
C. Comrade Le Dao Tiem
D. Comrade Do Dao Tiem
Question 3: On what day is the annual "Patriotic Hygiene" day to improve public health held?
A. December 1
B. July 2
C. November 19
D. February 7
Question 4: When did the National Strategy on Nutrition for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2045, take effect?
A. February 15, 2022
B. January 5, 2022
C. February 5, 2022
D. January 1, 2022
Question 5: In which year was the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases passed by the National Assembly?
A. 2007
B. 2008
C. 2006
D. 2009
Question 6: What was the first organ transplant performed in Vietnam?
A. Liver
B. Kidney
C. Lungs
D. Heart
Question 7: In what year did the family planning movement start?
A. 1960
B. 1961
C. 1963
D. 1962
Question 8: When did Vietnam receive recognition from the World Health Organization for eradicating trachoma?
A. 2023
B. 2021
C. 2024
D. 2022
Question 9: What advice did President Ho Chi Minh give in a letter to the Healthcare Personnel Conference in early 1955 (February 1955)?
A. "Physicians must also be like affectionate mothers"
B. "Physicians like affectionate mothers"
C. "Physicians also like affectionate mothers"
D. "Physicians must be like affectionate mothers"
Question 10: Who ignited the movement for voluntary blood donation?
A. Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Ha Thanh
B. Prof. Do Trung Phan
C. Dr. Bach Quoc Khanh
D. Prof. Nguyen Anh Tri
Question 11: On what date was President Ho Chi Minh's article "Patriotic Hygiene" published in the Nhan Dan newspaper?
A. July 2, 1958
B. March 22, 1957
C. July 2, 1957
D. March 22, 1958
Question 12: In what year did Vietnam achieve the replacement fertility rate for the first time?
A. 2006
B. 2003
C. 2005
D. 2004
Question 13: When did Vietnam perform the first surgery to separate conjoined twins (Viet and Duc)?
A. 1986
B. 1988
C. 1989
D. 1987
Question 14: What are the annual micronutrient days?
A. June 1
B. June 2
C. December 1
D. June 1 and 2
Question 15: Who was the first person sent to the Soviet Union to learn the method of producing Sabin vaccines?
A. Dr. Huynh Ngoc Tinh
B. Prof. Hoang Thuy Nguyen
C. Dr. Nguyen Van Huong
D. Prof. Ton That Tung
Question 16: On what date did President Ho Chi Minh visit and speak with the staff of Van Dinh - Ha Dong health station, Ha Tay province (now Hanoi is the leader of the health sector in the North)?
A. April 22, 1963
B. April 20, 1963
C. May 20, 1963
D. May 22, 1963
Question 17: In which hospital was robotic laparoscopic surgery for adults performed for the first time in Vietnam?
A. Viet Duc Hospital
B. Bach Mai Hospital
C. Cho Ray Hospital
D. Binh Dan Hospital
Question 18: Who was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award (considered as the Asian Nobel Prize) in 2024?
A. Prof. Do Ngoc Hieu
B. Prof. Tran Thi Phuong Mai
C. Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thi Xuyen
D. Prof. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong
Question 19: In what year was the Vietnam National Pharmacopoeia first published?
A. 2000
B. 2002
C. 2001
D. 2003
Question 20: Who introduced the "Basic Formula" by Dr. Vo Van Hung for widespread use in the health sector?
A. Prof. Dr. Do Tat Loi
B. Dr. Nguyen Van Huong
C. Prof. Dang Vu Hy
D. Prof. Dr. Do Nguyen Phuong
Note: The answers are for reference only!
Answer key for the Online Quiz Competition on Understanding the 70-Year History of the Vietnamese Health Sector in 2025 (Image from Internet)
In which cases is medical practice not required to be registered in Vietnam?
Based on Article 36 of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment 2023 stipulating principles of practice registration:
Article 36. Principles of practice registration
- Practitioners are allowed to register for practice at multiple medical examination and treatment facilities but are not allowed to overlap practice times among these facilities.
- Practitioners can register to work in one or more professional positions below within one medical examination and treatment facility but must ensure quality work in the assigned positions:
a) Medical examination and treatment according to the practice license;
b) Head of a professional department;
c) Responsible for the professional competency of the medical examination and treatment facility.
- Practitioners are permitted to carry out medical examination and treatment without registering for practice in the following cases:
a) Emergency activities outside a medical examination and treatment facility, except for out-of-hospital paramedics;
b) Are recruited, mobilized by competent authorities, individuals to participate in medical examination and treatment activities in the event of natural disasters, epidemics, infectious diseases of group A, or in emergencies;
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According to the above provisions, practitioners are allowed to perform medical examinations and treatments without registering for practice in the following cases:
- Emergency activities outside a medical examination and treatment facility, except for out-of-hospital paramedics
- Recruited, mobilized by competent authorities, individuals in events of natural disasters, disasters, group A infectious diseases, or emergencies
- Humanitarian medical examination and treatment by phase
- Medical examination and treatment during technical assistance, short-term professional technical support at another medical examination and treatment facility
- Other cases as stipulated by the Minister of Health.
What are organizational forms of medical examination and treatment facilities in Vietnam?
Based on Article 48 of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment 2023 stipulating the organizational forms of medical examination and treatment facilities:
- Hospitals
- Infirmaries under the people's armed forces
- Maternity homes
- Clinics
- Traditional medicine diagnostic clinics
- Paraclinical service facilities
- Health stations
- Out-of-hospital emergency facilities
- Family medicine clinics
- Other organizational forms of medical examination and treatment facilities as prescribed by the Government of Vietnam









