Illustrative image (Source: hanoimoi.com.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – International visitors who came to Ho ChiMinh City for health care make up 40 percent of the total number of foreigntourists to Vietnam for this purpose.
The southern metropolis has focused on high-quality dental and cosmetictreatment, traditional medicine and medical check-ups, among others.
Statistics reveal that last year, Vietnam welcomed 300,000 foreigners comingfor medical check-ups and 57,000 for inpatient treatment, earning the countrymore than 2 billion USD.
HCM City attracts this group of foreign visitors thanks to its application oftraditional and modern medicine in cosmetic treatment, as well as its strengthin dental and fertility treatment.
Being aware of foreign tourists’ increasing demand for medical services in thecity, travel companies such as Saigontourist and Fiditour have coordinated withlocal hospitals to organise medical tours.
According to Nguyen Duc Minh, Director of the HCMCity Odonto Maxillo Facial Hospital, the number of foreign and overseas Vietnamese patientsin the hospital increases about 10 percent each year. The hospital offers low-costbut quality services like those in other countries.
Also, the Tu Du Hospital iswell-known for its in-vitro fertilization with each case costing only about 100million VND (4,300 USD) as compared to 400-700 million VND charged by hospitalsin other regional countries.
Some major hospitals in the city have also opened international departments, luringcrowds of foreigners.
In 2018, the HCM CityMedical Tourism Guide with basic information about travel and health care inthe city was released in both Vietnamese and English.
In September 2019, the municipal Health Department launched a mobile applicationenabling locals and tourists to search for information about health facilitiesin the city.
Apart from promotion activities, HCM City has improved the quality of medicalservices and accommodations at health centres as well as foreign languageskills of local doctors, while cooperating with partners in this sphere./.
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