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[caption id="attachment_58419" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Yarol Yamel, 3, is examined by Dr. Janisleydis Rosado for bronchial asthma at walk-in clinic Number 15, La Santa Fe, Isle of Youth.[/caption] Cuba Although Cuba’s health care system is considered to be one of the best in the world, in…

by Thu HangA client attends a reproductive health and family planning consultation at Truong An Commune's medical centre in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Province of Vinh Long, which is part of the Government social franchise network Tinh chi em (Sisterhood). — VNA/VNS Photo Thu…

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The primary health care system in many Viet Nam provinces began to deteriorate rapidly in the mid-'80s as agricultural co-operatives were dismantled under a new Government policy. This deterioration had a particularly severe impact on commune health centres (CHCs), which serve millions of the country’s…

In Viet Nam, the building and upgrading of 800 commune health centres mean doctors are able to help 8 million people, mostly in rural areas, have access to quality primary health care close to home. Khanh Hoa Provincial Health Department, Da Nang City Health Department,…

Ca Lon with her daughter. Photo: Save the Children "The doctor saved my life," declared Ca Lon, recalling how, after delivering her first child, she experienced profuse bleeding that put her life at risk. Luckily, Ms. Lon was in a district hospital in Khanh Hoa…

The New York Times "Fixes" blog post, Making Medical Donations Work,  features Atlantic grantee, MedShare, and Dr. Le Nhan Phuong, Atlantic’s Country Director for Viet Nam and Population Health Programme Director, in a summary of ways to help hospitals in poor countries, particularly rural areas that…