During
40 years of development, the VNHP has made great contributions to the
development the nationwide pediatric system, helped lower-level hospitals to
better their healthcare services, and reduced the child malnutrition rate to
20% from 50% in the 1980s.
The hospital gives medical
checkups to some 500,000 children and treatment to over 60,000 children each
year. Its researches have contributed to the decrease of child mortality from 11.7% in
1989 down to 1.3% in 2008 and infant mortality from 43.3% down to 9.6% in the
same period.
Especially, the VNHP is the
pioneer clinic which conducts cardiovascular diseases for children. So far, it
has successfully treated over 3,000 children with congenital heart diseases.
On the occasion of its
establishment anniversary, the Hospital was awarded by the State with a 3rd-grade
Independence Medal.