Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh, wife of the late musician Hoang Van, passed away.

Of the more than 150 students of Hanoi Medical University who graduated in the first class after peace was restored, there were only 3 female students. Ms. Le Thi Ngoc Anh was one of them. She was also one of the people who defended her medical thesis in the first time Vietnam organized a national doctoral thesis defense.

Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh married musician Hoang Van in 1961 when she had just graduated and started working at Bach Mai Hospital.

She is a scientist , pedagogue and practicing doctor, but is known to the public as a muse, also the pillar of the family, a solid support for musician Hoang Van throughout his creative life. She is the wife he is always proud of. Musician Hoang Van passed away more than 5 years before his wife. He passed away in February 2018.

The funeral of Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh will take place on September 28, 2023 (August 14, Quy Mao year) at the Funeral Home of Friendship Hospital. Visitation starts from 7:30-8:30 am. Memorial service starts from 8:30-9:00 am. She was cremated at Hoan Vu Crematorium, Van Dien.

Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh is the wife of musician Hoang Van.

Dr. Ngoc Anh is a person who is devoted to her medical career. During her time working at Bach Mai Hospital, Dong Anh Hospital, Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Hospital (where she was Head of the Pediatric Emergency Department) and then Saint Paul Hospital (where she was Head of the Nutrition Department), Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh was not only devoted to treatment but also passionate about scientific research.

Proficiency in English and French and reading Chinese and Russian, Dr. Ngoc Anh has written many scientific research articles published in international journals in many languages. She has participated in writing professional books and training many generations of medical students.

After a training course in Paris and Montpellier (France) in 1980, she was one of the few doctors of that first course to successfully defend her Associate Doctorate thesis (currently PhD) at the University of Medicine in 1986, in the first time Vietnam organized a doctoral thesis defense in the country.

After retiring, she was invited by an American non-governmental organization to work as a medical specialist for a humanitarian program to treat and sponsor poor children in Luong Son district (Hoa Binh). At home, she continued to examine and dispense medicine to patients with limited means for more than two decades, until 2015 when she was forced to retire due to poor health. At that time, she was 82 years old.

Le Chi

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