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Vietnam medical student TikTok scandal – year suspension
On The controversy began on 26 July 2026 when a short TikTok livestream from Duc Giang General Hospital showed two fourth‑year medical students in nursing uniforms attire using profanity and threatening to “inject poison”. The clip went viral, prompting sparked public outrage. Duc Giang Hospital clarified confirmed the women were students interns from the Business and Technology University of Hanoi, terminated their internship and referred the case to the university. Three days later, Hanoi University of Medicine announced opened a disciplinary review after two TikTok videos – the original livestream and a separate video of a midwifery student threatening a patient – were reported. The university mobilised its student‑affairs, communications, youth‑union and medical‑faculty offices, review, mobilising several campus offices and said convening a disciplinary council would determine to decide sanctions. The director of Duc Giang Multispecialty Hospital confirmed cooperation, the students’ return, and tighter supervision of all interns. On 29 July 2026, renowned Renowned physician Dr. Dr Nguyễn Thanh Sang called for the students to issue urged a public apology before officials, suspend their apology, a suspension of social‑media activity and face disciplinary action. He urged stricter regulations prohibiting livestreaming or rules on recording clinical work without permission, noting that a medical blouse represents the whole profession. work. The university subsequently suspended responded by suspending the two students and began reviewing its guidelines to prevent similar breaches. The evolving response moves from hospital‑level clarification beginning a policy review. On 31 July 2026 the university’s disciplinary council voted unanimously to university‑wide investigation impose a one‑academic‑year suspension, lowering the students’ conduct scores. Vice Director Nguyen Van Long stressed that the conduct breached professional ethics and now to concrete disciplinary measures the moral standards the institution must teach. The hospital reiterated that the pair were interns, not staff, and policy‑review, highlighting heightened scrutiny announced a review of professional conduct among Vietnam’s medical its supervision of trainees.