Area: 127,243 sq. mi.; equivalent in size to Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee combined
Capital: Hanoi (3.145 million)
Population: 50,023,870
Government: Communist Party-dominated constitutional republic
 

General Country Information:

In 1974 North Vietnamese forces overran the South reuniting the country under Communist rule. Despite the return of peace, for over a decade the country experienced little economic growth because of conservative leadership policies, the persecution and mass exodus of individuals - many of them successful South Vietnamese merchants - and growing international isolation. However, since the enactment of Vietnam's "doi moi" (renovation) policy in 1986, Vietnamese authorities have committed to increased economic liberalization and enacted structural reforms needed to modernize the economy and to produce more competitive, export-driven industries. The country continues to experience small-scale protests from various groups, the vast majority connected to land-use issues. Vietnam is located in southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea.  It sits alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia. Total area of the country is 331,210 sq km. There are occasional typhoons (May to January) with extensive flooding, especially in the Mekong River delta. As of July 2010 the population of Vietnam is 89,571,130. Infant mortality rate: 21.57 deaths/1,000 live births. School life expectancy is 10 years.  (source: CIA World Factbook)

Vietnam is a country of over 50 million people. Almost 30 million people live in the South and there is only one cancer hospital which serves the people of that part of the country.

Upcoming Project: Vietnam – Future project in one of the leading referral and teaching hospitals and a key Province in Southern Vietnam.

Children's Intensive Care Unit - HO CHI MINH CITY: The addition of a Children's Intensive Care Facility has lifted the hospital to a new level of healthcare. Assist International was able to provide for them brand new cardiac care monitors, ventilators, syringe pumps, infusion pumps, an oxygen system, a Philips Ultrasound and new pediatric beds.
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Vietnam's Only Cath Lab - HO CHI MINH CITY: In 2001, Assist International installed the a Cath Lab at the Nguyen Trai Hospital, the hospital for poor patients in Ho Chi Minh City. This hospital has the only Cath Lab available for all the people of Vietnam. In May of 2007, Assist completed an extensive overhaul to the Cath Lab which continues to save lives and enable the medical staff to do their best work.
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