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US-based project donates $1 mil in equipment to hospital

US-based project donates $1 mil in equipment to hospital

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 12:39 GMT+7

Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital today receives medical equipment worth more than US$1 million presented through a project sponsored by many US organizations, including St. Anthony Health Foundation. The donated goods, which weigh nearly 43 tons, have been brought to the hospital in a Boeing 747-400 chartered by US professor Carl Edwin Bartecchi, a Distinguished Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Through calls by the professor, who is also the director of the US-based Bach Mai Hospital Project, and his colleagues at the St. Anthony Health Foundation, many donors have donated various medical devices, including sickbeds, ultrasonic machines, and respirators, to Bach Mai, one of the leading general hospitals in Vietnam. These equipment have been transported at a cost of US$350,000, which was paid by the professor, his colleagues and other benefactors.

Professor Bartecchi and many of his colleagues from the group have visited Vietnam over the past several years for teaching and technology transfers. As shown on its website, the Bach Mai Hospital Project is set up to assist the hospital to become one of the major academic teaching centers in Asia while at the same time contributing to the development of a high quality health care program for the people of Vietnam.

The project has been launched since 1997 and is funded by St. Anthony Health Foundation, Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), Centura Health, and numerous private donors and medical equipment companies.

As one of the leading hospitals in Vietnam, Bach Mai receives about 1 million outpatients and more than 100,000 inpatients per year. It is also giving treatment to patients in critical conditions transferred from other hospitals.

With very good expertise and the most advanced medical technologies, Bach Mai also acts as a training center and technical assistance provider for 31 other hospitals in northern Vietnam.

Tuoi Tre

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