Key Development Vietnam's pharmaceutical-industry gap increasingly sits between two very different layers: a relatively broad finished-drug manufacturing base downstream and... Read more
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HANOI WITHDRAWS 30 MEDICAL-DEVICE DECLARATIONS: POST-MARKET REVIEW IS BECOMING THE REAL GATEKEEPER FOR CLASS A AND B DEVICES
Key Development Hanoi's health authority has withdrawn 30 Class A and B medical-device standard declarations. But this should not be... Read more
VIETNAM’S 84 RADIOTHERAPY MACHINES ARE NOT JUST AN EQUIPMENT SHORTAGE — THEY REVEAL A TREATMENT-CAPACITY GAP
Key Development Vietnam has roughly 84 linear accelerators serving a cancer system that records more than 180,000 new cases annually.... Read more
VIETNAM’S FIRST FETO PROCEDURE: THE REAL MILESTONE IS NOT ONE FETAL INTERVENTION — IT IS THE EMERGENCE OF A FETAL-THERAPY ECOSYSTEM
Key Development On September 26, 2026, Vietnam's National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology reported the country's first technically successful fetoscopic... Read more
PHARMACEUTICAL SELF-RELIANCE: VIETNAM DOES NOT NEED TO MAKE EVERY API — IT NEEDS TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT APIs TO CONTROL
Key Development Vietnam's most important pharmaceutical manufacturing gap is increasingly upstream. The country can manufacture finished medicines, but still produces... Read more
OLDER PATIENTS DO NOT NEED MORE PRESCRIPTIONS — THEY NEED ONE SYSTEM TO COORDINATE THE ENTIRE TREATMENT PLAN
Key Development An older patient moving through five or six specialist clinics and receiving five or six separate prescriptions is... Read more
EV71 VACCINE ARRIVES IN VIETNAM: ITS BIGGEST VALUE IS NOT ELIMINATING HFMD, BUT REDUCING ITS MOST DANGEROUS COMPONENT
Key Development Vietnam now has its first specific preventive tool against EV71 — but it is not a vaccine against... Read more
HANOI ONCOLOGY HOSPITAL DELEGATES TEMPORARY LEADERSHIP: THE REAL TEST IS WHETHER THE INSTITUTION CAN OPERATE WITHOUT DEPENDING ON ONE INDIVIDUAL
Key Development On September 23, 2026, Hanoi Oncology Hospital Director Bui Vinh Quang formally delegated hospital management responsibilities to Deputy... Read more
HOAN MY EARNS VND2.35 TRILLION IN FOUR YEARS: VIETNAM’S PRIVATE HOSPITAL MARKET IS ENTERING THE SCALE-ECONOMICS PHASE
Key Development Nearly VND2.35 trillion in cumulative net profit over four years is notable. More strategically important, however, is that... Read more








