Siemens helps optimise healthcare services in Vietnam

Dr. Norbert Gaus, CEO Clinical Products, Siemens Healthcare said in an interview on October 23 that Siemens supplied Vietnam’s first PET/CT and Cyclotron to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in early 2009 which allows physicians to detect cancers at an early stage. 

At the beginning of this year, it provided Dual Source CT scanner Somatom Definition Flash, the first of its kind in Vietnam, to Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi. 

Siemens Healthcare also offers education and training courses in Vietnam to keep medical staff abreast of medical advances and to create favourable conditions for best practice sharing. 

The healthcare sector worldwide is facing big challenges from an aging population, which goes together with increasing incidences of chronic diseases. Thus, healthcare providers are facing a growing number of patients including multi-morbidity cases. 

A large share of the world’s population does not have access to health care and in many remote areas, access to quality health care is a challenge.

Besides all these challenges, Vietnam has to deal with out-of-date medical systems, a lack of medical personnel and limited healthcare budget, Dr. Gaus said. 

In Vietnam, the group is collaborating with local hospitals to be up to date regarding the demand on site so that it is able to meet the needs as good as possible, he concluded. 

Siemens Healthcare has more than 130 years of experience dedicated to advance human health. It does business around the world, employing some 51,000 employees and generating revenue of EUR12.5 billion in fiscal year 2011.