History:

Institute for clinical research in tropical medicine (ICRTM) was established as decision No 706/BYT-QD dated 11^th November, 1989 by ministry of health basing on anexing 3 departmnts: Communicable diseases department and microbiology department (Bach Mai hospital) and the communicable diseases faculty (Ha Noi Medical University). The its predecessor was the communicable hospital built in 1911.

Functions and tasks:

- Researching systematically the methods of diagnosis and treatment of communicable diseases and tropical diseases.
- Training and retraining the communicable disease profession (graduation and post graduation).
- Leading and guiding the techniques and profession in communicable-profession and clinical microbiology for lower levels in the whole country.
- Dosmetic and international scientific cooperation.
- Dissemining the knowledge of communicable profession to everybody to contribute to the primary health care.
- Being the highest levels in exammining and treating the communicable diseases and tropical diseases.

Organizational structure and resources:

Manpower:

Staffs: 118 in which

. Professor: 02
. Assistance professor: 01
. Ph.D: 08
. M.S: 11
. 2^nd grade medical doctor: 02
. 1^st grade medical doctor: 12
. Medical doctor, pharmacist, engineer: 7
. Nurses: 4
. Technical assistance: 53
 . Worker: 18

Organizational structure:

Clinical components: 5 departments

- Examination, function test department
Chief of: Ph.D Nguyen Duc Hien

- Emergency department
Chief of: M.S Nguyen Hong Ha

- Hepatitis department:
Chief of: Ph. D Trinh Thi Ngoc

- Complex infection department:
Chief of: Ph.D Cao Van Vien

- Parasitology – HIV/AIDS department
Chief of: Ph.D Nguyen Duc Hien

Microbiology component
Chief of: Ph.D Nguyen Xuan Quang
- Common microbiology labor
- Researching microbiology labor

Teaching components (communicable faculty)
Chief of: prof, scientific doctor: Le Dang Ha
Functional components:
- Planning department
- Nursing department
- Financial department
- Administration department

The main achievements:

- Researching to make up successfully many guidlines for diagnosing and treating communicable diseases, epidemic such as: cholera, multidrug ressistance typhoid, dengue fever, haemorrhagic fever and HIV/AIDS... etc...
- Completing many valuable scientific research themes at national or ministrial levels such as causes of viral hepatitis; opportunity infections in HIV/AIDS, treatment of multidrug-resistance typhoid etc...
- Hosting many programs in the whole country such as: HIV/AIDS treatment, diagnose and treatment of dengue fever/haemorrhagic dengue fever and antibiotic sussceptibility testing study.
- Developing the international cooperation with countries, organizations such as: WHO, Swidish, Japan, France and Thai Lan etc...
- Trained many resident hospital doctors, master of science, 1^st or 2^nd medical doctors, phylosophy doctors.
- Being a training facility for medical students and foreign medical doctors such as: France, America.