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 equipments 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.
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