Health care and Education

The State of Vietnam has made great efforts to ensure the efficient supply of high-quality medicines for the people. Currently, Vietnam has 18 central pharmaceutical enterprises; 132 local pharmaceutical enterprises and 22 joint-venture projects in drugs manufacturing.

Efforts made in education have brought about encouraging results. From a country with the illiteracy rate of 95% in 1945, by 2002 91% of the Vietnamese population can read and write.