Healthcare in Da Nang: Local Health Tips & Costs

Healthcare in Da Nang

Da Nang Hospital is the only provincial-level hospital in Vietnam performing liver transplants. It also runs extracorporeal life support and cerebral vascular intervention. That depth sits in the public system, and it works in Vietnamese.

The private hospitals foreigners default to are a different proposition. Family Hospital, Vinmec and Hoan My handle routine and emergency care well, in English. Hoan My leads central Vietnam in interventional cardiology.

The escalation route above Da Nang is a two-hour drive, not a flight. Hue Central Hospital has held special grade since 2009 and carries far higher volumes. Complex cases go north through the Hai Van tunnel.

Getting seen as a foreigner in Da Nang

Book ahead or pay sixty per cent more. One private hospital’s published tariff charges markedly more for walking in without an appointment. A phone call saves the difference.

The public ambulance is free here, and an app will summon it. The city application requests a 115 ambulance and tracks it by satellite. That routes around having to describe your address in Vietnamese.

Two local hospitals have confusingly similar names. One is a 250-bed private hospital with a round-the-clock emergency department. The other is an outpatient clinic that closes at five.

What healthcare costs in Da Nang

The gap between public tariff and private price is roughly tenfold, and both are published. Vietnam bills inpatient stays per bed-day rather than per admission. Scans are priced by body region, with contrast charged separately.

Ambulance via 115	Free Waived for patients here
Specialist consult (public)	$1.94 Official published tariff
Specialist consult (private, booked)	$26 Walk-in costs more
Specialist consult (private, walk-in)	$42 Sixty per cent premium
Blood count (public)	$1.91 Official published tariff
Blood count (private)	$10 Five times public rate
Emergency visit (private)	$69 Before tests and drugs
MRI, one region (public)	$88 Contrast excluded
MRI, one region (private)	$153 Priced per body region
Hospital bed, per day	$15 Ward rate, billed daily
Intensive care, per day	$77 Single room rate
Porcelain crown	$420 Private hospital list

Public and private prices differ by roughly ten times here, and inpatient stays bill per bed-day.

Pharmacies

Vietnamese pharmacies dispense many drugs that need a prescription elsewhere, including antibiotics. That is convenient and genuinely risky, because nobody checks what else you are taking. Bring the generic name of anything you rely on. Da Nang has no verified twenty-four hour pharmacy, unlike Hanoi. Stock up before a weekend or a storm. Chain branches in the centre keep the longest hours.

Health tips

Common visitor health risks in Da Nang

Typhoon season floods hospitals

October storms put over a metre of water inside three city hospitals in 2025.

Dengue, all year now

4,176 cases in 2025 across every week. Days three to seven are the danger window.

Rip currents on the beaches

Swim inside lifeguard hours only. The calmest-looking water is where the current runs.

Motorbike traffic

Vietnam recorded 10,491 road deaths in 2025. Helmets are required and worth buying well.

Emergency

Emergency number: 115

115 is the ambulance line and it is free in Da Nang. English support is not documented.

English at the private hospitals only

Private hospitals run English-speaking services for foreigners. The public hospitals with the deepest capability work in Vietnamese.

Frequently asked questions

Is the ambulance free in Da Nang?

Yes. The city reports that 115 ambulance costs are waived for patients and accident victims. You can also request and track one through the city app rather than explaining your address by phone.

Will a Da Nang hospital bill my insurer directly?

For inpatient care, often yes. Outpatient cashless billing at the main expat hospital is limited to Asian insurers, so European and American policyholders pay cash. One private hospital takes a deposit even with a guarantee of payment.

Do serious cases get evacuated from Da Nang?

Usually not abroad. Da Nang Hospital performs transplants and runs extracorporeal life support, which is unusual for a provincial hospital. Cases that do escalate go two hours north to Hue by road.

Healthcare in Da Nang