University Medical Center Ho Chi Minh City (UMC)
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WebsiteOverview
A public university hospital run on a school-hospital model under the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, established in 1994 and formalised under Decision 3639/2000/QĐ-BYT; campus 2 (since around 2020) has about 1,000 beds.
It has no centralised cancer centre but is organised across specialties - the Department of Cancer Chemotherapy, the Breast Department and the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery - working together through multidisciplinary case review.
Liver transplants rose 44% in 2025, passing 100 cumulative liver transplants using the split-liver technique from brain-dead donors - hepatobiliary surgical capability relevant to the treatment of liver cancer.
Scale
Scale: campus 2 has about 1,000 beds (no consistent total figure across the 3 campuses). Outpatients system-wide: ~2-2.7 million visits per year; inpatients: ~55,000-120,000 cases per year; operations: ~30,000-44,000 per year (not broken down for oncology).
Accreditation
February 2025: certification under the PRIME-JCI programme (prevention of infection and of intravenous medication errors) - not hospital-wide JCI accreditation. ISO 15189:2022 for diagnostic imaging/laboratory testing at 4 units (campus 2, signed 27 February 2026). No hospital-wide JCI Hospital Accreditation.
Strengths and key treatments
The Breast Department is led by a Level II specialist who trained at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering and Harvard Medical School and is a member of ASCO, ESMO and SSO.
Liver transplants rose 44% in 2025, passing 100 cumulative liver transplants, using the "full right - full left" split-liver technique from brain-dead donors.
A separate Department of Cancer Chemotherapy; a radiotherapy linear accelerator, PET/CT or surgical robot dedicated to oncology has not been specifically confirmed.