Over the past 70 years of development, Vietnam’s healthcare sector has made remarkable strides in both scale and quality, meeting the growing demand for medical care and treatment while earning the trust of the Party, State, and people.
One of the major advantages Vietnam holds is the country's high level of political determination and long-term commitment to health care. The Party, National Assembly, and Government have consistently prioritised health care, recognising it as a top concern for the well-being of the people.
Primary healthcare in Vietnam is regarded as the foundation and backbone of the health system. It serves as the frontline and "gatekeeper" of healthcare, providing the closest and most direct access to communities. It enhances people's access to medical services at the grassroots level, ensures healthcare equity, and minimises treatment costs for citizens.
Industriousness, enthusiasm, and smartness are the impressions that French doctors have had of their colleagues from the Vietnam – Sweden hospital in the northern province of Quang Ninh’s Uong Bi city, who are working at the Pierre Bérégovoy hospital, Nevers city of Nièvre province, under an apprenticeship programme.
The network of Vietnamese intellectuals and experts, the Vietnamese youths and students association, and the group of Vietnamese doctors and physicians in the Czech Republic have coordinated to offer free health check-ups and consultancy to the Vietnamese community in the country.
Statistics of the Ministry of Health show that in the past two years, more than 1,000 organ transplants have been performed each year, the highest in Southeast Asia.
In a historic medical breakthrough, Vietnam witnessed the first successful delivery of a baby over three weeks after having undergone foetal heart surgery.
Vietnamese doctors and nurses from charity associations in Ho Chi Minh City recently provided free medical examinations and medicines to nearly 800 Cambodian people in Sa’Ang district in Kandal province.
The first heart and kidney transplant on one patient in Vietnam was successfully performed on February 15 by doctors of the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital, the hospital announced on February 24.
Thanks to assistance from US experts, doctors of the Binh Dan Hospital, based in Ho Chi Minh City, have succeeded in mastering urethroplasty techniques and shared experience with their colleagues from other Southeast Asian countries, heard a seminar on August 23.
For the first time in history, Vietnamese doctors have successfully carried out two bowel transplants from live donors, considered one of the most difficult organ transplant techniques.
While the international community recognises and highly values the COVID-19 prevention and control outcomes in Vietnam, as well as the Government’s efforts to minimise the pandemic’s impact on vulnerable groups, guarantee people’s right to medical treatment, and ensure no one is left behind, the story of the 17th patient infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam published on The New Yorker on September 21 has encountered public backlash due to its lack of objectivity.
General Secretary of the Mexican Labour Party (PT) Alberto Anaya Gutierrez visited the Ho Chi Minh Acupuncture Centre in Mexico City on August 27, during which he lauded contributions of Vietnamese doctors in providing health care services to Mexicans.
About 15 Vietnamese firms are joining the Virtual Healthcare and Hygiene Expo 2020, which is being held from June 22 to 26 by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Doctors from Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have recently visited the Philippines to perform robot-assisted sleeve gastrectomy operations, showcasing the technique to their local peers.
More talented and experienced doctors are leaving public hospitals to work in private facilities, raising concerns of a shortage of key doctors in the public sector.
Hidden at the bottom of Thu’s heavy army backpack was a well-wrapped jar of salt. It was a gift from her mother given the last time the two met, and Thu planned to take it to the war-torn South Sudan where she will be one of the first Vietnamese members of the United Nations peacekeeping mission.
