Present at the event were Senior Lieutenant General Tran Don, Deputy-Minister of National Defense, Major General Nguyen Phuong Dien, Director of the Information and Training Department under the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army and Major General Vu Quoc Binh, Director of the Military Medical Department, amongst others.
Senior Lieutenant General Tran Don speaking at the event
The Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Center was established on September 15, 2012 with European-standard equipment and facilities. At present, the center is home to more than 70 experienced doctors and medical workers, who have been trained in both international and domestic cancer hospitals. The center has become one of the country’s leading cancer treatment addresses.
The center usually accommodates around 230-260 inpatients and annually provides radiotherapy for 25,000 patients. Additionally, the center effectively cooperates with local units and medical stations to ease pressure by cancer patients in Ho Chi Minh City.
The center has invested considerably in a lot of modern medical equipment, such as linear accelerators (LINAC), MultiSource high dose rate brachytherapy treatment units, positron emission tomography (PET) and x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners, GE Millennium MG systems, and Radioactive Iodine I-131 systems.
Delivering his speech, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Don valued highly the efforts and task performances of the center’s staff in recent times, adding that the center symbolizes the care of the Government and the Ministry of National Defense in treating cancer patients in Ho Chi Minh City and other localities in the South.
The Deputy-Defense Minister also requested them to continuously strengthen their political stance and medical ethics, master advanced equipment and treatment systems, work with health sector of Ho Chi Minh City to train high quality medical workers, and foster specialized research to apply advanced technologies into cancer treatment for patients inside and outside the army.
On this occasion, the center also received merit certificates by the Health Ministry and the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee.
Translated by Van Hieu