The Ministry of Health has approved the inclusion of several more hospitals to the ‘Satellite Hospitals’ project in the period of 2016-2020, as heard a conference on implementing the project in Hanoi.
The mostly publicly financed health care system in Vietnam has only been able to afford to pour resources into a handful of central level hospitals in big cities, forcing patients living in remote areas with serious diseases to go to Hanoi or HCM City for treatment.
A satellite hospital project has helped reduce patient overloads at hospitals, especially at central-level facilities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, in its five years of implementation, heard a conference in Hanoi on November 15.