Pregnancy advice - Hanoi

Hi, welcome and congratulations.
I hope local members can offer good suggestions for you.

Thanks Fred,

Luckily our hotel had a receptionist who has kids and recommended the following hospital just north of the old quarter. The website is ;

https://hongngochospital.vn/

Might be useful for others in a similar situation.

We paid €40 (included a free meal voucher), the staff were professional, friendly and spoke excellent English. We were in and out in 2 hours. I couldn't recommend it enough. Tbh for the money you wouldn't get the level of service, care and treatment back in the UK.

Errr, the NHS is free...?

Nothing like a trip to a decrepit Vietnamese hospital after an accident to make you truly appreciate the NHS.

BTW, the going rate for a foreigner to be seen by a Dr at a hospital is 200,000 vnd. Locals are manipulated into giving about that in backhanders to jump the queue too. obviously it doesn't include treatment/medicine...most pharmacists would have test kits? There's one in the old quarter but they overcharge foreigners. 20,000 vnd for a plaster! Next day, different lady and it was 30,000. 

Since when has the NHS been "free"?  I've paid taxes for 28 years in the UK......that amounts to a lot more than £40.

Personally I didn't care what it cost it was what we needed at the time. If you wanted to be helpful why didn't you reply to my original post with some helpful advice rather than a post rant about how I might / was / could have been ripped off?  Which by the way is a matter of oppion.......I personnally felt the level of service, respect, care and attention we received was well worth the money we paid.  I'm pretty sure under similar circumstances others would agree.

Ok so technically every UK citizen funds the NHS but what an amazing thing it is to have universal healthcare which provides the same level of service regardless of whether you are rich or poor or if you're willing to give the doctors backhanders.

Seems you went to a private hospital, now you know the going rate for if you ever need to visit a state one.

Ok so technically every UK citizen funds the NHS.........NO.......

Technically every working, tax paying citizen of the UK funds the NHS. I don't for one minute dispute the fact it's a great system and the people who work in it are both undervalued and extremely underpaid. The level of service you mentioned however is debatable. Have you ever been to an Accident and Emergency wing on a Friday night in London?

My reply to your post was both thankful and hopefully reassuring / helpful to others who by chance have found themselves in a position where they require medical treatment in Hanoi and are looking for a suitable, albeit paid solution. I'm not sure "backhanders" were involved in anyway and to be honest for the level of service and care we received at £40 I don't care. What I wanted to know was that my girlfriend and child were okay, fit and healthy and £40 was nothing compared to the piece of mind and care we received.

As for the going rate if I ever went to a state hospital? Are you joking? It'd take a doctor's appointment, refer to hospital, refer to nurse for blood test, 2 (if lucky) week wait for a scan etc etc.........not a chance you'd get that back home for £40.

As I said hopefully this thread will help someone who needs similar advice in the future. Maybe you should book a flight back to the UK if you should find yourself in need of medical treatment of advice whilst in Hanoi.

I just go to a local clinic. takes 5 minutes and costs about 50k dong including 2 medicines.