Asian American Medical Group (ASX: AJJ) is partnering with Vinmec International Hospital

Asian American Medical Group (ASX: AJJ) is partnering with Vinmec International Hospital JSC (VINMEC) to offer international standard liver surgery and transplantation in Vietnam.

Under the Memorandum of Understanding, the two parties will jointly set up the Vietnamese?American Liver Center (VALC) to treat the whole spectrum of liver diseases for adults and children.

VALC will be located within VINMEC, an international standard that was established in February 2012 in Hanoi, where it will provide complicated hepatobiliary surgery and transplantation in the hospital’s 12 main operating theatres and five day?care operating rooms.

VINMEC will provide the necessary facilities, equipment and working capital to fund all operating costs, as well as to obtain all approval and licences from the government authorities or otherwise for the operation of VALC.

In turn, Asian American will be responsible for designing, setting up, managing and operating VALC; implementing management systems; selecting, recruiting and training staff; and delivering quality service.

It will also assist in integrating UPMC?utilised IT and Telemedicine technologies within VALC, the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and wards.

Asian American’s partner UPMC, a US$10 billion integrated global health enterprise headquartered in Pittsburgh, will support it through technical consultation, training, capacity?building programs, providing experts for healthcare services support at VINMEC, if required, and consultancy/second opinion service in telemedicine.

VALC was expected to be operational by June 2013.

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