SEA Health Tech Investment Insights
INSEAD
Vietnam's healthcare system functions as a mixture of
public and private provision, with a dominant public side
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Public Healthcare System
Efforts by the gov't towards universal healthcare coverage
87% of the population is covered by social health insurance (1)
The Government continues to finance new hospital
construction to increase healthcare access for rural and urban
communities (2)
Vietnam's public sector has a decentralized hospital system
organized into four groups(3):
Private Healthcare Options
• The Vietnamese private healthcare sector is relatively
young, but holds an important position in outpatient care
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As of 2016, private sector only accounted for 17% of hospitals
(5.5% of hospital beds), yet private hospitals provided 60%+
of outpatient services
Private hospitals continue to grow, primarily in major cities
and for the middle and upper class(2)
National Level: Ministry of Health
46 Hospitals
Provincial Level: Provincial Departments of Health
411 Hospitals + 47 Health Clinics
District Level: District Offices of Health
629 Hospitals + 544 Health Clinics
Communal Level: 11k Communal Health Centres
Number of Hospitals in Vietnam
133
150
167
186
207
231
1,040
1,042
1,069
1,063
1,071
1,091
2011
2012
2013
■Public Hospitals
2014
■Private Hospitals
2015
2016
Sources: (1) World Health Organization (WHO); (2) Vietnam Briefing, 2020; (3) BDGVietnam, 2017
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