According to a press release from the Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi Wednesday, five doctors and nurses, from the university’s Children’s Oncology Center, are now visiting Hanoi as part of the cooperation program.

The program will work to increase the survival rates of children with cancer in Northern Vietnam with a focus on cost effective and simple solutions.

Vietnamese doctors and nurses will be invited to train at the University Hospital and participate in cancer work there. Meanwhile, doctors and nurses from Lund will work with doctors at the National Hospital for pediatrics in Hanoi and other hospitals in Vietnam’s northern region.

Lectures and workshops on pediatric oncology for doctors and nurses across Vietnam will also be arranged as part of the cooperation.

The annual number of childhood cancer cases in Vietnam’s northern region is estimated at 1,700. Few of them receive adequate treatment and even fewer receive comprehensive care. Recent international studies have estimated that only 5-10 percent of children with cancer in Vietnam live to see five years old.

Reported by Bao Anh