Seven young doctors from the Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics and Bach Mai Hospital have been dispatched to work in impoverished districts in the northern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai, Bac Kan, Son La and Dien Bien.
Half of all medicine used in Vietnam is locally manufactured, however, it has been largely unused in central hospitals, PhD Truong Quoc Cuong, Deputy Minister of Health, has said.
A project to develop healthcare services in coastal and island areas through 2020 has showed good outcomes with remarkable improvements recorded in quality of medical services for local people.
Standard medical wastewater treatment systems have been set up in only 60 percent of total 13,000 healthcare clinics nationwide, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long at a conference held in Hanoi on March 30.
The Hanoi Department of Health has sent doctors, nurses and medical workers from central level hospitals to district level facilities to help share advanced professional techniques.
Patients and the broader health care system are desperately calling for a solution to a bed-sharing problem that has been protested for years, so far to little avail.
The health sector of Hanoi has built a monitoring system for early detection of epidemics across the locality as part of efforts to improve the city’s capacity to prevent and control diseases.
Local governments play a key role in implementing health care programmes and coordinating the cooperation of stakeholders to help people access high-quality, reasonable-cost health care services.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the Health Ministry to direct the progress of constructing branches of Hanoi-based Viet Duc and Bach Mai hospitals.
Advanced medical techniques in cardiovascular surgery and interventions have been successfully transferred to provincial hospitals, saving the lives of hundreds of patients every year.
Hanoi health authorities have taken precautions to prevent epidemics and diseases that frequently occur in the period over spring and summer during the hot weather.
Health experts exchanged experiences at a recent workshop in Hanoi on the application of the microarray-based CGH technique in reproductive health support and genetic disease detection.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien spoke with Tuoi tre (Youth) newspaper about the shortcomings of implementing the family medical practice model in Vietnam and its development plan by 2020.
Public health facilities in HCM City will be under pressure to improve their quality of services as they will no longer receive city funds for regular expenditures.
The Ministry of Health is pushing the second phase of the Regional and Provincial Hospital Development Project, improving healthcare for local people and ease overcrowding at major central ho
The Ministry of Health has urged all hospitals to boost their application of information technology to improve medical examinations, treatment and management, ministry officials said.
The biggest success of the Ministry of Health's provincial hospital development project was narrowing the gap on quality of treatment between central and lower-level hospitals.
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