January 14, 2012
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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July 31, 2009
Doctors at a Hanoi hospital have been accused of cashing in by forcing cancer patients to use expensive equipment rather than the facilities their insurance policies allow them to use for free. LookAtVietnam – Doctors at a Hanoi hospital have been accused of cashing in by forcing cancer patients to use expensive equipment rather than [...]
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July 30, 2009
Doctors at a Hanoi hospital have been accused of cashing in by forcing cancer patients to use expensive equipment rather than the facilities their insurance policies allow them to use for free. In 2000, K Hospital, or the National Cancer Institute, bought radiation equipment for US$1.4 million and has spent around $60,000 a year since [...]
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June 6, 2009
The Department’s Medical Affairs Office in Ho Chi Minh City on June 6 confirmed that to date 9 people have tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu virus in Vietnam. A quarantine room in the Tropical Diseases Hospital in Ho Chi Minh CityFive of the 9 patients were on the same flight with six-year-old Hua Nhi [...]
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May 5, 2009
Storm strengthens, might change course; Vietnam Buddhist Sangha holds celebration in Moscow; 2010 National Tourism Year to be launched in Hanoi; Number of third-borns rises by 1 percent; Former Chinese specialists honoured Storm strengthens, might change course Tropical storm Chan-Hom, which was formed from a depression in the East Sea, has regained category status as it [...]
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April 29, 2009
Health screening equipment at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday. Vietnam raised its swine flu alert to level 4 Tuesday, warning that the threat of âcommunity level outbreaksâ could rise at anytime. The move came after the World Health Organization upgraded its international warning to the same level and issued [...]
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April 22, 2009
LookAtVietnam – National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong left Hanoi on April 22 to pay official visits to Russia, the Czech Republic and Belarus. Oil and gas is one of key areas of cooperation between Vietnam and Russia.LookAtVietnam – National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong left Hanoi on April 22 to pay official visits to [...]
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April 16, 2009
The HCM City Investment Fund has decided to provide VND1.5 trillion ($83.3 million) to build, upgrade hospitals and purchase medical equipment. Overload of patients and lack of medical equipment have been big problems for all hospital in the city for years. The Director of HCM City Department of Health, Nguyen Van Chau, said that this is [...]
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April 4, 2009
LookAtVietnam – HCMC authorities have set aside VND5 trillion to subsidize domestic investment projects, including health care projects, but the HCMC Health Department reported that few hospitals are eager for the fund. HCM City’s State-owned hospitals have registered VND432 billion for health care project implementation.Nguyen Van Chau, department director, said at a meeting on the [...]
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March 20, 2009
Doctors are banned from both providing health examinations and selling drugs.LookAtVietnam – The Health Ministry has set up two working groups to make sudden inspections at drugstores, cosmetics and medical equipment trading firms, and private clinics in some provinces and cities. These working groups will probe the implementation of state regulations on drug quality management, medicine [...]
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TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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