Posts Tagged ‘ University Hospital ’

South Korea becoming medical tourism hub 

October 16, 2011
South Korea becoming medical tourism hub 

  The medical tourism market in South Korea is expected to grow around 30 percent during 2010-2012, according to a study from RNCOS, a global market research and information analysis company A robotic operation performed at the Wonkwang University Hospital on September 29, 2011 Clean, modern facilities, and a warm welcome greet patients at several [...]

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Unhealthy relationship 

August 28, 2011
Unhealthy relationship 

An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]

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Italian surgeon examines Vietnamese children with genital deformities 

August 20, 2011
Italian surgeon examines Vietnamese children with genital deformities 

Dr. Robert De Castro (L) examines a child patient at the Hanoi Medical University Hospital on August 16, 2011. Dr. Roberto De Castro, a famous Italian specialist in pediatric genital reconstruction, is in Hanoi to provide free examination for 86 Vietnamese child patients with genital deformities. After arriving in Hanoi on Tuesday, Dr. De Castro has [...]

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Overloaded hospitals breeding rogues

June 1, 2009
Overloaded hospitals breeding rogues

Most state-owned hospitals in HCM City are overloaded with patients coming from many southern provinces. Some people are using this as opportunity to take advantage of patients. VietNamNet investigated the situation. At the Dermatology and Venerology Hospital in District 3, HCM City, VietNamNet saw a dozen people gathered at the gate scrambling for patients. The advent [...]

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Middlemen grease healthcare wheels in HCMC hospitals

May 18, 2009
Middlemen grease healthcare wheels in HCMC hospitals

People queue up at 3 a.m. outside the Medical University Hospital in HCMC to be able to take the small numbers for a check-up. Most patients coming for a check-up at hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have to arrive at night and wait until noon the next day unless they are willing to pay [...]

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Japan’s hospitals slam doors on emergency cases

April 29, 2009
Japan’s hospitals slam doors on emergency cases

Nurses are busy treating a patient at the Kyorin University Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) in Tokyo on April 20. Shinsuke Takasaki’s son Sota is too young to understand that his mother might still be alive if 18 hospitals had not denied her treatment when she complained of headaches during labor. The question of how [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...