For years in the recent past, the local healthcare sector attracted very few foreign investors who saw it as requiring a long time to recoup investment. The tide has turned now when a new wave of foreign entrepreneurs are coming in, seeking to tap a market seen as highly potential given the rising demand and the inadequate supply of services. Several foreign investors have shown keen interest in the healthcare sector in Vietnam, at least for now. This will likely help remedy the current hospital overload. New investment pledges After developing two drug plants in HCMC and Binh Duong, the Filipino pharmaceutical firm United Lab has just decided to boost investment in Vietnam through medical service supply. Last week, United Lab signed a deal with High Precision Diagnostics (HPD) of the Philippines to open a clinic specializing in diagnosis and medical tests in HCMC. The two companies plan to form a joint venture in the city for developing this clinic, set for completion next … [Read more...] about Healthcare sector turns magnet for foreign investors
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Foreign investors keep glacial to potential healthcare sector
VietNamNet Bridge ' Vietnam is really a potential healthcare service market with high population, increasingly high number of middle class earners and the overloaded state owned hospitals. However, the number of foreign invested projects in the healthcare sector remains modest. A lot of preferences awaiting investors … [Read more...] about Foreign investors keep glacial to potential healthcare sector
A doctor devoted to community healthcare
A simple, friendly and benevolent man. That is how many people describe Doctor Do Gia Canh, Deputy General Secretary of the Vietnam Preventive Health Association and a member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations. He has been selected as ‘Man of the Year’ in medicine and healthcare by the American Biographical Institute for his contribution of many excellent scientific projects to Vietnam and the world. Over the past 15 years, Doctor Do Gia Canh and his colleagues have regularly co-operated with the US National Institute of Health (NIH), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the International Vaccine Institute and the World Health Organization (WHO) to successfully organize many programmes on public healthcare, such as prevention of diarrhea, research and testing of new vaccines and vaccination programmes for children, students and people in difficult and remote areas, helping reduce the rate of people infected with diarrhea and epidemic … [Read more...] about A doctor devoted to community healthcare
Advanced technology application has improved healthcare in HCMC
The health sector in Ho Chi Minh City has made great achievements by applying advanced technology in medical treatment to improve healthcare. 1. Application of new Quantitative Fluorescent Polymerase Chain Reaction technique in antenatal diagnosis The Genetics Department of Tu Du Hospital, the first in the country, has implemented antenatal diagnosis to discover Thalassemia, a genetic disorder in which the production of normal hemoglobin is partly or completely suppressed, by the new Quantitative Fluorescent Polymerase Chain Reaction (QF-PCR) technique. The principle of QF-PCR technique is based on the presence of highly polymorphic short tandem repeat (STR) markers specific for each chromosome. In addition, the hospital has used the new technique to diagnose other diseases such as hemophilia, DNA sequence analysis, AZF disorder to cause sterility and rubella in pregnancy. The application of QF-PCR in antenatal diagnosis has contributed to improving quality of Vietnam’s … [Read more...] about Advanced technology application has improved healthcare in HCMC
Healthcare info flow improves in 2017: officials
VietNamNet Bridge – Information Technology applications in health exams and treatment have improved information flow and storage in the healthcare sector, a year-end review found on December 29.The review conference held in Hanoi also identified improvements that need to be made in the coming year to overcome challenges and difficulties faced this year.Pham Le Tuan, Deputy Minister of Health, noted that 2017 was the 4th year in a row that IT has been applied in health examinations and treatment in all hospitals and clinics nationwide, in accordance with National Assembly Resolution No.68.Tuan said notable achievements have been recorded over the past four years, particularly in 2017, thanks to the application of the Mediware Hospital Information System (HIS) for maintaining electronic medical records, contributing to laying a foundation for national health information infrastructure. However, Tuan said, the health sector faced a lot of difficulties and challenges in … [Read more...] about Healthcare info flow improves in 2017: officials