A bust of famous French chemist Louis Pasteur, donning a surgical mask, is displayed at the entrance.....
A bust of famous French chemist Louis Pasteur, donning a surgical mask, is displayed at the entrance of the Vietnam-France Hospital in Hanoi April 17, 2003. Pasteur is credited with discovering rabies vaccinations and the method of killing microorganisms by heating, termed pasteurisation. The hospital, the epicentre of Vietnam's outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), is the only international standard facility of its kind in the capital and is preparing to re-open in June. The virus has infected 68 people in the country and killed five. ??? USE ONLY