Deputy Prime Minister (4th, L) and Lao Health Minister (5th, L) (Source: VNA)– Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has suggested Vietnam and Laos step up
medical cooperation with more diverse and effective activities in the time
ahead to match with the between the two countries.
The Vietnamese
Government and people always create favourable conditions for cooperation
programme and activities between Vietnam and Laos in all fields, including healthcare,
Deputy PM Dam said while receiving Lao Health Minister Bounkong Syhavong in
Hanoi on June 26.
The Deputy PM noted
with pleasure the outcomes of bilateral medical cooperation over the past time,
particularly in medical education, training, check-ups and treatment.
The Vietnamese and
Lao Ministries of Health should review collaboration achievements and put forth
a specific plan for closer cooperation in the coming time, he said.
Deputy PM Dam also
underscored the need for the two sides to instruct relevant units in building
and operating the Vietnam- Friendship Hospitals in Houaphan and Xieng
Khouang provinces.
He urged the two
countries to promptly finalise a health cooperation agreement in a bid to
facilitate medical quarantine at border gates, thus contributing to fully
implementing the “one-stop” model.
For his part, Minister
Syhavong briefed his host on issues discussed by leaders of the Health
Ministries to boost and expand medical ties.
Accordingly, the two
sides will focus their collaboration in medical check-ups, training, pharmaceutical
production and food hygiene management, he said.
Annually, health centres in 11 Vietnamese
provinces that border Laos receive thousands of Lao patients for treatment.
Eleven Vietnamese medical institutions and a number of leading Vietnamese
hospitals have provided training courses for Lao doctors and medical staff.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
