The Austrian government has decided to provide the Official Development Assistance worth 17 million EUR to help the central province of Thua Thien-Hue upgrade a tumour centre in Hue Central Hospital.

This was announced by Austrian Ambassador to Vietnam Georg Heindl on Nov. 30 at a meeting with provincial authorities.

Speaking at the event, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Ngoc Thien expressed his hope to attract more funding in education, human training, science, technology, music and fine arts.

Austrian Ambassdor Heindl acknowledged the provincial authorities’ proposals in deploying programmes to promote the province’s strengths in a bid to lure more Austrian investors to seek business opportunities in the locality./.