HCM City to open a hi-tech screening diagnostic centre
Ho Chi Minh City’s Health Department on January 5 announced that a hi-tech screening and diagnostic centre is being developed at Oncology Hospital 2 in Thu Duc city, as part of a project to develop a specialised medical centre in the south of Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
A technician operates a modern medical equipment in Ho Chi Minh city's Oncology Hospital 2. (Photo: VNA)
Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) – HoChi Minh City’s Health Department on January 5 announced that a hi-techscreening and diagnostic centre is being developed at Oncology Hospital 2in Thu Duc ꧑city, as part of a project to develop a specialised medical centre inthe south of Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
According to the department, the centreattracts medical workers with high expertise from central hospitals in thecity. The centre is equipped with modernmedical devices to help medical workers detect early lesions in the brain,eyeballs, spine diseases, benign tumors, malignant tumors in organs, and genesequencing. Besides specialising in early detectingdiseases, particularly cancers, doctors at the centre use different testingtechniques to assess the current health conditions of customers, and check thehealth history of their relatives, through which they can offerrecommendations for the consumers to maintain a healthy lifestyle as good aspossible. The Health Department expects that thehi-tech medical centre will help reduce the number of patients travellingabroad for medical examination and treatment. Moreover, it also aims to attractforeigners to help the city develop its medical tourism./.
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A technician operates a modern medical equipment in Ho Chi Minh city's Oncology Hospital 2. (Photo: VNA) 
