Equipment of a respiratory illness treatment center at a new hospital in Vietnam 

The new Nhân Duc hospital, located in Dalat, in southwestern Vietnam and initiated by several Vietnamese doctors, will open in 2011. This 200-bed hospital will in this way complement the medical system in the Lam Dong province, which has one million inhabitants.

Apart from its 12 medical centers, the province has a single hospital with 400 beds, designed to take in charge “serious” illnesses. It is however obvious that respiratory illnesses continue to increase from year to year whereas the current means of screening and treating them are very inadequate.

In this context, the Air Liquide Foundation is contributing its support to finance several pieces of equipment in the new treatment center for chronic respiratory ailments created in the Nhân Duc hospital. This hospital will organize and coordinate a large-scale epidemiological study on these pathologies.

This new treatment center hopes to become a center of reference for taking in charge chronic respiratory illnesses, handling both their diagnosis, their prevention, their treatment as well as personnel training and support for regional, national and international studies. In addition, a large awareness-raising project for the populations on the most frequent respiratory diseases will be implemented, asthma being one of the pathologies that is still rather poorly understood in Vietnam even though it is much more prevalent than in other Asian countries.

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