Co-operation in health technology enhanced

A workshop on co-operation in health technology was held in Hanoi on March 21 by Japan’s Nagoya University, the Japanese daily Nikkei in collaboration with the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), and Vietnam’s Ministry of Health as well as Bach Mai Hospital.

At the workshop

Addressing the event, Deputy Health Minister Le Quang Cuong highlighted the effectiveness of bilateral co-operation programmes in health care between Vietnamese agencies and foreign partners.

He said he hopes for the further enhancement of cooperation in health care, particularly cancer prevention and treatment between Asian countries as well as between Vietnam and Japan in particular.

According to the official, despite the considerable upgrading of facilities in recent years, hospitals in Vietnam can only handle about 25 percent of all cancer cases.

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in Vietnam and the wider world. The country has approximately 150,000 new cancer cases and 75,000 deaths as a result of the disease each year.

The Vietnam-Japan digestive endoscopy centre was set up in July 2014 at Bach Mai Hospital with financial assistance coming from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and technical support from Nagoya University.

(Source: nhandan.org.vn)