Associate Professor Hoi was former deputy head of the HCM City Pasteur Institute, and vice president of the Vietnam Red Cross. Currently, she is Vice President of the HCM City-based Vietnam-France Friendship Association.
The 81-year-old woman has spared no effort to develop the medical sector in Vietnam and joined humanitarian work run by French organisations for 27 years.
She has lobbied government and non-governmental organisations of France to raise nearly EUR2 million for 312 projects in 53 provinces and cities across the country.
Hoi is the fifth Vietnamese woman receiving the French honour. Other recipients were former Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly‘s External Relations Committee Ton Nu Thi Ninh (1997 & 2013), former headmaster of the Marie Curie High School (2004), Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien (2009), and former war correspondent Nguyen Thi Xuan Phuong (2011).
