The figures were announced at a ceremony to mark the Central Lung Hospital’s 55th anniversary in Hanoi on June 24.
Health Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Xuyen underlined the leading role the hospital plays in the control and prevention of TB and lung disease.
She said she hopes the hospital will continue cooperating internationally to raise support for the nation’s TB control and prevention programme and apply the latest science and technology to diagnosis and treatment.
Since it was first founded in 1957, the hospital has successfully developed methods of controlling and preventing TB from communal to central levels and has found practical ways of combating TB that are applicable in Vietnam. It now uses 16 out of 19 WHO certified technologies to diagnose TB.
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