Nearly 40 percent of provincial satellite hospitals have reported adecrease in the number of patients being transferred to higher-levelhospitals for treatment, helping to lift the burden on central hospitalsthat has been weighing them down for decades.
The figure wasreleased at a conference on the development of satellite hospitals heldby the Ministry of Health in Hanoi on July 24.
Representatives ofmore than 30 central and satellite hospitals together with healthofficials and city and provincial leaders attended the one-dayconference to discuss solutions to the obstacles satellite hospitaldevelopment is facing.
The project, approved by the Ministry of Health in 2013, aims to reduce overloading at big hospitals.
Inthe first stage of the project, 14 central hospitals were chosen by theMinistry of Health as ‘core hospitals' responsible for transferringadvanced medical techniques to 46 satellite hospitals across 38provinces and cities in Vietnam.
The technical transfer focuses on cardiology, oncology, exterior injuries, obstetrics and paediatrics.
Thetransfer rate to higher-level hospitals of patients suffering frombrain trauma at Ninh Thuan Provincial Hospital, one of the satellitehospitals chosen for the project, reduced dramatically by about 88percent, from 104 cases in 2013 to 12 last year.
Phu ThoProvincial Hospital said that the number of patients that underwentradiation treatment and tumor removal surgery at the hospital rose from2875 cases in 2013 to 5535 a year later. This was thanks to theexcellent technical transfer from central hospitals, said Minister ofHealth Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.
The Ministry would speed up technicaltransfers and expand the network of satellite hospitals to allprovinces in the country, she said.
"The Ministry will alsoinvest more in the infrastructure of ‘core hospitals' to furtherfacilitate training and technical transfer in lower-level hospitals,"she said.
Telemedicine, in which telecommunications is used toprovide remote healthcare, will also be applied in training and used forjoint medical consultations between central and provincial hospitals,she said.-VNA
The figure wasreleased at a conference on the development of satellite hospitals heldby the Ministry of Health in Hanoi on July 24.
Representatives ofmore than 30 central and satellite hospitals together with healthofficials and city and provincial leaders attended the one-dayconference to discuss solutions to the obstacles satellite hospitaldevelopment is facing.
The project, approved by the Ministry of Health in 2013, aims to reduce overloading at big hospitals.
Inthe first stage of the project, 14 central hospitals were chosen by theMinistry of Health as ‘core hospitals' responsible for transferringadvanced medical techniques to 46 satellite hospitals across 38provinces and cities in Vietnam.
The technical transfer focuses on cardiology, oncology, exterior injuries, obstetrics and paediatrics.
Thetransfer rate to higher-level hospitals of patients suffering frombrain trauma at Ninh Thuan Provincial Hospital, one of the satellitehospitals chosen for the project, reduced dramatically by about 88percent, from 104 cases in 2013 to 12 last year.
Phu ThoProvincial Hospital said that the number of patients that underwentradiation treatment and tumor removal surgery at the hospital rose from2875 cases in 2013 to 5535 a year later. This was thanks to theexcellent technical transfer from central hospitals, said Minister ofHealth Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.
The Ministry would speed up technicaltransfers and expand the network of satellite hospitals to allprovinces in the country, she said.
"The Ministry will alsoinvest more in the infrastructure of ‘core hospitals' to furtherfacilitate training and technical transfer in lower-level hospitals,"she said.
Telemedicine, in which telecommunications is used toprovide remote healthcare, will also be applied in training and used forjoint medical consultations between central and provincial hospitals,she said.-VNA
