The Pasteur Institute, Nha Trang is located at the north end of Tran Phu Blvd. The Pasteur Institute, Nha Trang was established in the year 1895 by Alexandre Yersin, the first director of the institute appointed by Louis Pasteur. The museum is dedicated to the French national Dr. Alexander Yersin (1863-1943). Yersin was a man of Renaissance and was famous for his pioneering medical research and was himself an explorer, biologist, botanist and entomologist. He was very much interested in astronomy and photography as well. He introduced rubber and quinine producing trees. He also discovered the microbe which is the cause of the bubonic plague.
The Pasteur Institute, Nha Trang is among the thirty Pasteur Institutes present worldwide. The name of the institute has been maintained throughout the institute history. Soon after the reunification of Vietnam in May, 1975, the institute was taken over by the government and it has been under the direction of Ministry of Health of Vietnam.
The Pasteur Institute, Nha Trang nowadays performs research as well as makes vaccines. There is a public library as well as office within the complex for public viewing and has a good collection of his equipments used in research. On the recommendation of Yersin, his laboratory in Nha Trang and the Dr. Albert Calmette Laboratory in Saigon were made to the lever of Indochina Pasteur Institute, which is the first to be established outside Paris.
The Pasteur Institute, Nha Trang is taking care of the 11 provinces as well as 99 districts in the central part of Vietnam. The total area covered is 130 kilometers of coastline and the population covered exceeds 11 million people. The terrain taken cared of includes coastal to mountainous region. The dedicated staffs work in storms, floods, typhoons, drought and in other extreme conditions.
The primary aim of the Pasteur Institute, Nha Trang includes conducting research in microbiology, epidemiology, environmental protection, immunology, water surveillance, entomology, nutrition and occupational as well as school health. The institute also monitors and prevents epidemics in the central area of Vietnam. Programs like immunization, polio eradication, sanitation and AIDS prevention are some of the other works done by the institute.
Apart from The Pasteur Institute, Nha Trang, there are other Tourist Attractions in Nha Trang which are worth a visit and these are Po Nagar Cham Tower, Hon Chong Headland and the Pagodas and churches.
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