Vietnam’s Hue Hospital Opens Tumor Treatment Center Funded by Austria ODA

The Hue Central Hospital on January 16 held an opening ceremony for tumor treatment medical center in its premise funded by government bond and Austria’s official development assistance (ODA). The VND200-billion ($8.9 million) center has 300 beds and wards for operation, for radiotherapy, treatment and medical nuclear to make a modern self-contained treatment medical facility. The center is equipped with the state-of-the-art medical devices such as Elekta Axesse which is designed to treat a wide range of targets throughout the body, including cranial lesions and tumors in the spine, lung, prostate, and liver. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien praised the center as a perfect destination for examining and treating tumor and cancer since it meets the treatment demand of patients in the central and highlands. At the event, the Health Minister also gave the greenlight to build a maternity center in the hospital’s premise. The maternity center will have 300 beds with total spending of VND300 billion. The center will be built later in 2016. (saigon-gpdaily.com.vn Jan 17)