There were 23.6% of medical doctors 11.3% tertiary pharmacists. In Ben Tre: There were 65.2% of villages with health collaborators and 140/140 commune health stations, of which 74.5% had medical doctors; the district level had 8 hospitals, the average number of beds of these hospitals were 100 - 130. There were 11 workers with Master degrees in health sciences, 190 medical doctors and 8 tertiary pharmacists; the provincial level had 2, 981 beds, of which hospitals accounted for 82.9%.