Quang Ninh province has over 1,000 private health establishments

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According to statistics of the Quang Ninh provincial Department of Health, there are more than 1,000 private health establishments in the province.

Up to October 2013, the provincial Department of Health and local departments of health inspected 468 establishments, dealing with 54 law breaking establishment and levying fines of nearly VND300 million.

To promote state management in private health services, Quang Ninh provincial People’s Committee has issued a document to ask the provincial department of health to coordinate with relevant agencies and district, town and city people’s committees to strengthen the inspection of private health establishments, including cosmetic surgery centres./.