During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh was very interested in building a strong Vietnamese medicine, in which he paid special attention to the image of the exemplary Vietnamese physician.

Over the past 65 years, Uncle Ho's teachings and instructions about "Doctor like a gentle mother" have become the action motto of generations of Vietnamese physicians in taking care of and protecting the people's health.


Visiting Van Dinh clinic (in former Ha Tay province) on April 20th, 1963, President Ho Chi Minh
instructed the health workers to carry out the motto "Doctors like gentle mothers". (Photo: VNA)



President Ho Chi Minh visited the Hanoi Medical University in 1955 (Photo: VNA)



Uncle Ho talked with health workers (Photo: VNA)



President Ho Chi Minh visited Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)



President Ho Chi Minh visited Viet Duc hospital in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)



President Ho Chi Minh visited the Central Eye Hospital (Photo: VNA)



President Ho Chi Minh and Professor and Doctor Dang Van Ngu (middle) at the time
he visited the Hanoi University of Medicine and Pharmacy and Faculty of Parasite (Photo: VNA)



President Ho Chi Minh visited the Nam Dinh General Hospital on May 22nd, 1963 (Photo: VNA)



President Ho Chi Minh visited the library of the Hanoi University of Medicine and Pharmacy on January 14th, 1963 (Photo: VNA)



Uncle Ho talked cordially with Professor and Doctor Tran Huu Tuoc, who established and built Vietnam’s otorhinolaryngology sector, and medical intellectuals in March 1964 (Photo: VNA)


Uncle Ho visited the Military Hospital No.7 in May 1967 (Photo: VNA)


Source: CPV

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