The agreement aims to establish a framework for cooperation between the two parties in areas with complementary strengths, gradually bringing professional exchange, training, and research activities into specific programs, ensuring professional quality, patient safety, and compliance with legal regulations.

Attending the signing ceremony, on the side of Zhida Group were Mr. Lin Jin, Chairman of the Board of Directors; Mr. Ye Qing, General Director; along with representatives of several related enterprises and organizations from China and Vietnam.

On the side of Bach Mai Hospital were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dao Xuan Co, Director of the Hospital, along with the leadership of the Department of Traditional Medicine, Department of Pharmacy, Hospital Office, Bach Mai Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Education and Research, and the Department of Information Technology and Digital Transformation.

Toward substantive cooperation with a focus on professionalism as the foundation

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Mr. Ye Qing, General Director of Zhida Group, stated that the enterprise wishes to accompany Bach Mai Hospital in accessing appropriate achievements of traditional Chinese medicine, promoting professional exchange, and expanding healthcare opportunities for the people.

According to Mr. Ye Qing, the signing ceremony is the result of nearly two years of continuous exchange between the two sides to seek areas with cooperation potential. This is also the starting point to materialize the agreed orientations into practical cooperative programs.

Mr. Lin Jin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zhida Group, highly appreciated the operational history, professional capacity, training, and scientific research of Bach Mai Hospital. He believes that the two sides can leverage their complementary strengths in medical technology exchange, human resource training, and research, aiming for outcomes with practical value.

Sharing at the working session, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dao Xuan Co, Director of Bach Mai Hospital, stated that the Hospital is a special-grade central general medical facility, which simultaneously performs tasks of specialized medical examination and treatment, training of medical human resources, scientific research, and the reception and transfer of advanced techniques.

In the field of traditional medicine, the Hospital Director emphasized the requirement to build a substantive cooperation model, in which technology transfer must be closely linked with human resource training, process standardization, and ensuring that the professional team has the capability to master techniques in the long term.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dao Xuan Co presented a souvenir gift from Bach Mai Hospital to the representative of Zhida Group.

Accordingly, three priorities were identified by the Hospital: developing human resources through training, expert exchange, joint consultations, and research; building a controlled medicinal herb value chain—from seed selection, cultivation areas, harvesting, processing, and testing to traceability; and ensuring that cooperative activities comply with the law, medical ethics, patient data protection, and place patients' interests at the center.

Five groups of cooperation contents

During the working session, representatives of the specialized units of Bach Mai Hospital discussed the demand for receiving experts, training specialized doctors in the direction of combining Eastern and Western medicine, researching appropriate treatment methods, standardizing medicinal herb sources, and developing quality-assured traditional medicine dosage forms.

Zhida Group shared its experience in building a medicinal herb traceability system, covering cultivation, harvesting, processing, transportation, and testing. The partner also proposed formulating an annual training plan to connect Bach Mai Hospital with hospitals, traditional medicine universities, and appropriate specialized institutions in China.

According to the Memorandum of Understanding, the two sides agreed to study and implement five main content groups.

First, exchanging traditional medicine experts and training human resources.

Second, supporting medical staff of Bach Mai Hospital to participate in training and professional development programs in China.

Third, providing medicinal herbs and pharmaceutical raw materials for research, training, and practice in accordance with regulations.

Fourth, cooperating to research and develop standardized medicinal herb cultivation areas in Vietnam.

Fifth, coordinating research, clinical trials, and developing academic outcomes.

For each specific program, the two sides will establish specialized cooperation documents, clearly defining the scope, responsibilities, resources, and professional and legal requirements prior to implementation.

Under the witness of the delegates, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dao Xuan Co, Director of Bach Mai Hospital, and Mr. Ye Qing, General Director of Zhida Group, represented the two sides in signing the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation.

The signing serves as a basis for Bach Mai Hospital and Zhida Group to continue implementing activities in professional exchange, training, research, and medicinal herb development. The two sides aim to materialize the contents of cooperation into programs suited to practical needs, ensuring quality, safety, and effectiveness, thereby contributing to improving the quality of public healthcare.

News: Hospital Office / Photos: The Anh