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Over the past years, Vietnam's health sector has made big strides with and many difficult techniques successfully applied, helping the country gain a foothold on the world medical map.

Endoscopic surgery has now been performed in most medical specialties in Vietnam, from gastroenterology, urology, endocrinology, to thoracic surgery and traumatology, with complicated techniques used in liver resection, esophagectomy and heart valve replacement.

Vietnam has made many advances in endoscopic surgery for patients with esophageal cancer. Up to 90 percent of esophageal cancer patients live for at least five years more, if the disease is detected and treated early.

Doctors from the Central Military Hospital 108 have successfully operated an endoscopic surgery to take the right liver part from a living donor for a liver transplantation.

The Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital in Hanoi successfully performed an endoscopic surgery through the mouth to repair a patient’s orbital floor, announced the hospital on February 17.

The Health Department of Hanoi is working with the municipal People’s Committee to expand colorectal cancer screenings to many localities of the city.

Saint Paul General Hospital on November 27 opened a high-tech medical centre that specialized in endoscopic surgery and digestive treatment.

Work has started on the construction of a medical high-tech centre that specialises in endoscopic surgery and digestion treatment at the Saint Paul General Hospital in Hanoi.