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Vietnam, France mark fruitful medical cooperation

Ho Chi Minh City-based Tu Du Obstetrics Hospital on October 12 held a ceremony to mark the first laparoscopic surgery that local gynaecological doctors conducted with French assistance 20 years ago.
Ho Chi Minh City-based Tu Du Obstetrics Hospital on October 12 held aceremony to mark the first laparoscopic surgery that localgynaecological doctors conducted with French assistance 20 years ago.

Addressing the event, French Consul General GerardBoivineau applauded achievements Tu Du hospital has recorded. He saidthe medical cooperation between France and Vietnam , especially theFaisant Fonction d’Interne (FFI) training programme, is a great successin the two countries’ ties.

Over the past 20years, nearly 2,200 Vietnamese doctors have attended refresher coursesin France , he said, adding that his country has helped Vietnamdevelop post-graduate training programmes, of which 11 programmes wereimplemented in Hanoi and HCM City .

PhamViet Thanh, Tu Du Hospital’s Director, said the hospital is the first inVietnam to receive the transfer of laparoscopic surgical techniquesin gynaecology from France .

Since 1990, withthe support of major laparoscopic surgery centres in Paris , ClermontFerrand and Nice, the hospital’s doctors have mastered surgicaltechniques for extra-uterine pregnancy, ovarian cancer and sterility, hesaid.

The hospital has also carried out trainingprogrammes on laparoscopic surgery for doctors from medical institutionsacross the country and Laos and Cambodia , he added./.
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