A number of foreign doctors at France-Vietnam (FV) hospital in Ho Chi
Minh City have failed to obtain medical licenses granted by Vietnam’s Ministry
of Health because their interpreters are unqualified, says Le Thu, the
hospital’s marketing director.
Thu explained that under existing
Vietnamese laws, foreign doctors will not be granted medical licenses if their
interpreters do not have medical interpreting certificates issued by concerned
authorities.
Meanwhile, overseas Vietnamese
doctors also have yet to get certificates of mastering Vietnamese in diagnosis
and treatment, she added.
The director confirmed with Tuoi
Tre that inspectors from the city’s Department of Health have recently
requested that some foreign doctors without licenses at the hospital stop
practicing medicine until they are allowed.
The doctors have been
administratively fined for this violation.
Thu claimed the hospital has
closely followed this order.
Most of the unlicensed doctors
are French nationals, but some of them also come from the US and the
Philippines, the health inspectors told Tuoi Tre.
Among them is Dr. Gerard
Desvignes, who has been appointed as the hospital’s medical director.
The doctors have been working at
the hospital for one or two years, they said.
The unlicensed doctors have work
permits granted by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and
medical certificates issued in their homelands, a source said.
TUOI TRE
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