This year's conference welcomed more than 1,000 delegates to attend with the participation of provincial leaders, former leaders, levels, leading experts, professors, and doctors from home and abroad.
At the conference, MSc. Dr. Dinh Anh Tuan - Director of the Department of Mothers and Children (Ministry of Health) - highly appreciated the scale of the event when it has gone beyond the regional scope, becoming a national scientific forum to help experts update the latest medical trends.
Mr. Tuan said that the Ministry of Health is developing national guidelines on obstetric and gynecological health care, newborn care and completing the technical process system, economic and technical norms to soon apply uniformly throughout the industry.
According to BS.CKII. Nguyen Thuy Thuy Ai - Director of Can Tho City Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, this will be a place to meet, exchange academics and spread practical professional values in the fields of Obstetrics, Gynecology to Assisted Reproduction - Andrology, Neonatal Pediatrics, Gynecological Oncology, Dermatology, Pelvic floor and Infection Control - Nursing.
This year, the conference has 14 sessions with nearly 80 valuable scientific reports. Each topic delves into the urgent issues of modern reproductive medicine, built on the foundation of evidence-based medicine and high technology.
The conference is expected to help create a widespread knowledge connection network, contributing to narrowing the technical gap and improving the quality of women's and newborn health care in the Mekong Delta region.
In 2025, Can Tho City Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital welcomed more than 223,780 visits, of which 53% were out-of-province patients and welcomed 9,670 babies born safely.
The hospital has established two centers for newborns and assisted reproduction - Andrology, performed 500 IVF cases with a success rate of 53% and deployed 25 new techniques. The survival rate of premature infants reached 98.4%, of which the survival rate of extremely premature infants reached 80% with the lowest weight recorded being 620 grams.
According to information, this is the only unit in the Mekong Delta region to deploy advanced techniques in fetal intervention, genetics and prenatal screening.
