Hanoi's health sector has improved its service in recent years, aiming to decrease the amount of money Vietnamese spend on treatment overseas, a figure that currently amounts to about 2 billion USD annually.
The public-private partnership (PPP) investment model is seen as an opportunity for hospitals to improve the quality of their service, thus attracting more patients, experts said on May 21.
The UK’s exit from the European Union (Brexit) will not affect the special partnership between Vietnam and the UK, said Baroness Fairhead, Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion at the Department for International Trade (DIT) of the UK.
Vietnam had reported no new human cases of avian influenza A/H5N1 and the country had successfully controlled outbreaks of the H5N1 strain over the past five years, an official said.
The Prime Minister has approved the portfolio of a health cooperation programme sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the 2016-2017 fiscal years.
Representatives from the health sector of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
have agreed on a joint action programme to prevent the spread of
infectious diseases, particularly Ebola, through their shared aviation
and land ports of entry.
The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the Mercatus
Capital Corporation of Singapore held a seminar in Hanoi on August
23 on promoting international cooperation in luring healthcare
investment.
The European Union plans to provide an additional 150 million EUR grant
support to poverty reduction and the health sector in Vietnam in
the years to 2013 if modernisation of public finance management is
steadily pursued and a stable macroeconomic environment is maintained.
A symposium on boosting public-private
cooperation in health sector opened in Hanoi on May 26 with the
participation of 500 representatives of hospitals, businesses and
investors in and outside country.
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