HCM City emerges as medical tourism destination

HCM City has emerged as medical tourism destination due to its fast-growing health services and medical technologies, according to local authorities.

HCM City hospital provides free dental care to disadvantaged people in Đồng Tháp Some 1,500 adults and children in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp have benefited from free dental check-up and treatment provided by the HCM City Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology.

Workshop discusses HCM City’s key medical tourism products Developing medical tourism products is not only in line with the global development trend, but will also contribute to diversifying the city’s tourism products and tourism sector development.

$80,000 set to improve child healthcare in Quảng Nam

ExxonMobil has pledged US$80,000 to help improve child healthcare in central Việt Nam, contributing $50,000 to VinaCapital Foundation’s Survive to Thrive programme and $30,000 to Operation Smile Việt Nam.

Denmark assists Việt Nam in the fight against diabetes1

Frederik Kier, the Senior Vice President of Novo Nordisk – a global healthcare company with headquarter in Denmark- is on a visit to Việt Nam to gain insights of the local fights against diabetes.

Local clinics in need of revamp

People require medical care even before they fall sick, said health minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến at the opening of a training programme to improve the quality of local clinics and the country’s grass-roots level health care system, in Đan Phượng District, Hà Nội.

Lasers improve efficacy of dental treatment

Development of advanced laser technologies has improved the efficiency, ease and patients’ comfort in dental and facial treatment, according to health experts.

 

HCM City eyes boost to dental tourism

Dental tourism has been identified as one of HCM City’s five main medical tourism products, according to its Department of Tourism.

City eyes share of Asian medical tourism pie

With a growing number of medical tourists who combine travel with medical care coming to HCM City in recent years, lucrative medical tourism needs concerted efforts by various official agencies and travel firms to realise its huge potential, experts have said.

HCM City keen to develop dental tourism

With a pool of highly-skilled practitioners, state-of-the-art facilities and affordable costs, HCM City is rapidly emerging as a dental care tourism destination.