VietNamNet Bridge – Dr Tran Ngoc Dung, head of the Institute for Environment Friendly Technology, an arm of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, has received the 2017 L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for women in science.

Dr Tran Ngoc Dung

Dung has played a leading role in researching and finding a method to make silver nano, an important material used to health care and protection, which is in high demand in Vietnam.

In an interview with reporters, Dung said the deaths of four infants at Bac Ninh Hospital of Obstetrics and Paediatrics in the northern province of Bac Ninh Province in November 2017 was due to septic shock.

A nano-silver covered air filtration membrane would have helped filter the air and prevent microorganisms from entering treatment rooms.

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