Ba Đình, Hanoi, Vietnam · also Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam–Russia Tropical Centre)
Medical-grade HBOT66ARK score
5 documented red flags
Vietnamese-language public medicine — not set up for foreign wellness clients.
Admission is indication-driven (stroke, wounds, burns), not protocol-driven.
Equipment vintage unverified.
Chamber pressure (ATA) is not published. The ~$12 session price is verified; the treatment PRESSURE is not. A 1.3 ATA session and a 2.0 ATA session are not the same product, and the ATA-dependent findings in the library — including the Thom 2006 CD34+ mobilisation result — were measured at 2.0 ATA. Ask for the protocol pressure in writing before treating this price as comparable to anything.
The widely repeated '$55/session Vietnam' figure does not match any named facility. Verified public-hospital rates are $9–$20; $40–$60 is the plausible private/international landing zone but no facility publishing $55 was found.
Published on every entry, including the top-ranked ones. A clinic with no red flags listed has not been proved clean — it has not had one found in this research pass.
Published price
from ~$12 / sessionVerified price
per 60-min session
From 300,000 VND per session. This is the verified low end of the global HBOT price spread — roughly 20x below US private clinic rates.
ARK never bills treatment and takes no share of what a clinic charges you — you pay the clinic or vendor directly. Prices shown are their own published prices, labelled with how they were verified.
What they do
Hard-chamber hyperbaric oxygen, 60-minute sessions. Joint Vietnamese–Russian government scientific centre, 30 years operating.
The evidence behind the primary service
HBOT — FDA-cleared indications — grade D-, carried unchanged from the ARK Protocol Library. A clinic's score cannot exceed 20 of 100 on service evidence, so no clinic can rank well on an unproven therapy.
Delisted for cognition: HBOT failed its 2025 sham-controlled randomised trial, with more serious adverse events in the treated arm. ARK will not show it for cognitive goals.
The cleared indications are specific conditions — decompression sickness, non-healing wounds, certain infections. Wellness use sits outside them.
Score breakdown
Price transparency25/25
Medical leadership15/25
Regulatory standing20/20
Evidence behind the primary service6/20
Disclosure & clean record0/10
Price transparency: Price published and independently sourced.
Medical leadership: Government scientific centre with medical staffing; named medical director not captured in this research pass.
Regulatory standing: Vietnamese state scientific institution.
Evidence behind the primary service: ARK Protocol Library grade D-, carried unchanged. Capped at 20 of 100 so no clinic can rank on an unproven therapy.
Disclosure & clean record: 5 documented red flags, published on this card.
Verification status
Medical leadership: Government scientific centre with medical staffing; named medical director not captured in this research pass.
Regulatory: Vietnamese state scientific institution.
ARK Verified: No. No clinic in this directory has passed the registry check and the human call. There is no gold star anywhere in this build.
Accreditation (JCI etc.): Not captured for this entry in this research pass. Absence is scored as absence, never as good.
Outcomes / PROMs: None published. No clinic in the directory publishes complication rates.