The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on August 20 held a virtual event to receive an ECMO machine worth 145,000 USD donated by Indian businesses and expats to help the city fight COVID-19.

Staff of the Level-2 Field Hospital No. 3 of Vietnam engaging in the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in South Sudan and their peers from India’s Level-2 Field Hospital have held an online joint training course on medical capacity and COVID-19 prevention and control.

Vietnamese and Indian medical corps engaged in a teleconference on COVID-19 prevention and control on July 1.

A policy advocacy seminar discussing employment for refraction ophthalmology bachelors took place in Hanoi on August 21.