Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) attends the inauguration ceremony for the trauma and orthosis institute under Military Hospital 175. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Military Hospital 175should work to turn itself into a strong medical facility in the region, PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on December 11.
He made the statement while visiting the hospital on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army and the 30th All-People’sDefence Festival (December 22).
PM Phuc asked the hospital to improve quality of medical examination, enhancecapacity of its staff, apply advanced technology in treatment, as well aspromote international cooperation so as to meet development requirements in thenew period.
Besides, the hospital needs to speed up the constructionof the 1,000 – bed general hospital, nursing home and rehabilitation hospital,he said.
The leader also took the occasion to hail the hospital’s efforts tosuccessfully fulfill its missions in the past time, including the deployment ofthe Level 2 field hospital in South Sudan to join UN’s internationalpeacekeeping operation, providing health care in remote areas in the CentralHighlands region, Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and Cambodia, and makingheavy investment in high technologies to improve medical services.
He particularly commended the staff of the Level 2 field hospital forsuccessfully accomplishing their peacekeeping mission, describing it as a vividillustration for Vietnam’s responsibility, goodwill and increasing prestige inthe international arena.
Military Hospital 175 was set up on May 26, 1975, right after the liberation ofthe south. Currently, it provides treatment to some 3,700 patients and carriesout up to 140 emergency operations each day.
PM Phuc also attended the inauguration ceremony for the trauma and orthosis institute,the first ever in the country having a helipad./.
Doctors from Vietnam’s military hospital 175 and Ho Chi Minh City eye hospital, on November 14 and 15, offer free eye checkups and surgeries and medicines to hundreds of poor Cambodian patients.
The Ministry of National Defence on November 13 held a send-off ceremony for the second Level-2 Field Hospital which will participate in the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
The first group of Vietnamese peacekeeping forces from the Level-2 Field Hospital No. 1 arrived back at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport on November 21, fulfilling their mission in South Sudan.
The level-two field hospital No.1 of the Vietnam People’s Army was honoured at a ceremony at Military Hospital 175 in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5, after it completed the peacekeeping mission at the UN mission in South Sudan.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) attends the inauguration ceremony for the trauma and orthosis institute under Military Hospital 175.
