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Vietnam: Still more foreboding about the healthcare system

Posted on July 25, 2008

And to think that communist countries used to brag about their free medical care. Via Thanh Nien Daily, a story that bodes very ill for a country at risk of a pandemic: Scrimping finds new low at Hue hospital. Excerpt:At 4 a.m. Cong, from the central province of Thua Thien Hue, got up from the floor on the hospital lobby to attend to his son, who had been admitted a week earlier after suffering a heart attack.Cong said he was sleeping on the hospital floor because he couldn t afford to pay for accommodation on top of his son s hospital fees, which cost millions of dong [VND1million = US$63...

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