JICA helps Vietnam build a biosafety laboratory

JICA of Japan has just approved a grant of more than 8 million USD for the project of building a level 3 biosecurity safety laboratory located at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

The first phase of the project has started. By June 2006 at the latest, the first international standard level 3 mobile biosafety laboratory in Vietnam will be inaugurated.

Previously, the health sector also asked the Government to consider and build 2 level 3 biosafety laboratories at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute in 2005-2006.

According to the proposal, each laboratory worth $ 2.5 million (about 80 billion total) to preserve and study the pathogens in time.