Dr. Nguyen Xuan Ngai was born in South Vietnam. He is a Vietnamese American and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the People's Action Party of Vietnam.

Biography

He had served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) as an Medical Officer at Nguyen Van Hoc Hospital in Saigon.

During the Fall of Saigon, he was an Officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He chose to remain and protect his patients at the hospital in Saigon, and defend South Vietnam from the invading North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong Agents.

On April 30, 1975, he was imprisioned by the Communist Vietnamese government for three years and was released. He secretly left Vietnam and immigrated to the United States.

In 2002, he was invited by the Communist government Public Health Ministry, to teach Vietnamese doctors the techniques of angioplasty and angiograms .

Dr. Nguyen Xuan Ngai's work was praised within the medical field in Vietnam and was reported by media networks thoughout Vietnam. This alarmed the Vietnamese Communist when news spread thoughout the media that Dr. Nguyen Xuan Ngai was also involved with an Anti-Communist oganization known as the People's Action Party of Vietnam.

On March 1, 2002, Communist Police arrived at his hotel in Saigon and seized his passport, visa and airplane ticket. He was accused of having tried to overthrow the Vietnamese Communist government, a crime that can carry the death penalty.

There was an outcry by the Vietnamese Community in the United States and after one week he was enventually released and allowed to return to the United States.

External Links

• Dr. Nguyen Xuan Ngai Return to Vietnam lands him in Jail Atlanta Journal
• Dr. Ngai Nguyen, Vice-Chair of the PAP being detained by Vietnamese authorities during a medical mission in Vietnam Mercury News
• Dr. Ngai Nguyen after a week of being detained by Vietnamese authorities during a medical mission in VN pg. 1
• Dr. Ngai Nguyen after a week of being detained by Vietnamese authorities during a medical mission in VN pg. 2