Medical & Health

Medical & Health Travel Advise for Vietnam

Travelling with Friends Travel Vietnam is the very best way to get up close and to get the greatest and unique experience about Vietnam in a way you’d never manage on your own. Being healthy during your travels and returning home healthy is important for everyone. Travelling to Asia can be exciting and a bit frightening at the same time. When you prepare for your trip in an appropriate way, you are ruling out most issues you might come across. Start planning your vaccinations in time, since some vaccines require more than one shot over the course of a few weeks. Make sure you prepare well for your trip, so that besides a cold and a dose of travellers’ diarrhea, you get back home in good health.

Travellers should seek professionaladvice in all cases to determine exactly what vaccinations or other medical precautions may be required for their travel within Vietnam. Friends Travel Vietnam  takes the health and safety of its travellers seriously, and takes every measure to ensure that trips are safe, fun and enjoyable for everyone. We recommend that all travellers check with their government or national travel advisory organisation for the latest information before departure as advise per country me be different. see list below

What Vaccinations do I might consider for traveling to Vietnam? 

Think about vaccinations for Vietnam. There may be some certain health risks in Vietnam, similar to the other Asian countries. Examples include jaundice, typhoid, malaria and rabies. However, if you follow basic rules for good health, vaccinations for Vietnam do not seem too important. In recent years typhoid or malaria have not been recorded as a high risk in Vietnam. Particular vaccinations for traveling to Vietnam are not officially required by the authorities – it is not mandatory.

What Vaccinations do I might consider for traveling to Vietnam?
If you are going into remote mountain areas and minority villages, think about a vaccination against jaundice (Hep A/B) and rabies. Check also that you have vaccinations for tetanus and typhoid. The guesthouses or hotels of standard quality are almost always clean. You will meet a lot of wandering dogs and other animals – be calm, they are not as dangerous as they sometimes seem.

Vietnam has modern health services but only in the large cities.
Vietnam has changed and modernized in recent years . It is not a problem finding modern hospitals, clinics and foreign doctors in big cities like Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. But the situation is different in the smaller towns and villages in northern Vietnam, where there are limited health services.