Ho Chi Minh City promotes medical tourism

 25-Oct-17, Vietnam Net 

The HCM Medical Hospital usually treats between 1,000 to 15,000 overseas Vietnamese and foreign patients every year, mostly in the departments of heart, gastroenterology, nerve or plastic surgery. In Sep-17, the centre established an international clinic with modern facilities, exclusively for foreign patients.

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Now, local officials are hoping to build on this momentum and expand the number of international visitors who come to HCM City for medical treatment. The City Department of Health and Department of Tourism have signed an MOU on medical tourism implementation, establishing an interdisciplinary agency to promote healthcare services to foreign tourists, and a “Medical Tourism Handbook” to be published by the end of 2017.

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