Most of Vietnam’s overall indicators on healthcare are higher than those of other countries with the same income. Vietnam has had some fundamental indicators equal to nations with income 10 times higher. The average life expectancy in Vietnam is 72 years, 10 years longer than that in countries with the same income per capita.

13,102 clinics with 184,440 hospital beds. The average rate is 16.64 public hospital beds for 10,000 citizens; one doctor for every 1,700 citizens. Poliomyelitis and tetanus among infants were eliminated in 2000 and leprosy in 2005. Vietnam has managed to limit the rate of HIV/AIDS increase and reduce the mortality rate of children under 5 years old from 55‰ in 1995 to 32.8‰ in 2003 whilst children under 1 year old from 42‰ to 21‰. In 2003, Vietnam succeeded in controlling SARS, recurrent healthcare spending accounted for 4.5% of the budget, 29.28% of poor households were granted free health insurance and 57.88% of poor households were entitled to the exemption or reduction of hospital fees (2003).

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