Cho Ray Hospital in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City and Japan’s Mita Hospital in Tokyo have coordinated in providing digital diagnosis for patients. The entire process of transferring electronic data will take only a few minutes. Disease samples will be sent electronically to both hospitals so that they can exchange diagnostic opinions on how to treat a disease effectively. Within the last three days, doctors from the Anatomy Division of Cho Ray Hospital and their Japanese counterparts have diagnosed 40 patients, including 20 Japanese and 20 Vietnamese people. Accordingly, Vietnamese doctors gave the same diagnosis result for most of the cases as their Japanese counterparts, which proves that Vietnamese doctors are equally skilled in providing medical treatment for patients. Vietnam is the third country in the Asia region conducting this same pattern of cooperation after Japan and China. Vietnam and Japan have also signed a memorandum of understanding regarding Japan’s recruitment of Vietnamese nurses and caregivers for its hospitals in move to ease the local shortage. (Sai Gon Giai Phong Nov 2)
