Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee has honoured 233 outstanding individuals for their excellence in studying and following President Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and lifestyle, particularly their efforts in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The northern port city of Hai Phong joined hands with China’s Yunnan province to provide free eye examinations and cataract operations for 70 patients at the Viet-Tiep Friendship Hospital in the Vietnamese city on May 29.
Ho Chi Minh City has begun allocating funds to 24 health stations for upgrading their infrastructure, as part of efforts to strengthen primary health care in the model of family medicine.
Financial autonomy has improved the quality of many public hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, but some of them still do not have sufficient funds to upgrade facilities.
The proportion of people with HIV/AIDS in HCM City who have health insurance surged to 70 percent last February from 20 percent in April last year, according to the city HIV/AIDS Prevention Centre.
The training provided by leading central-level hospitals in HCM City has helped doctors at provincial facilities apply latest techniques and advances to treat heart patients, reducing the need for emergency transfers.
Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have been striving to improve the quality of examinations and treatment and patient satisfaction at appropriate costs and prices.
HCM City hospitals are preparing emergency aid for the Tet holiday as the number of traffic accidents, food poisoning incidents and drunk driving incidents is expected to increase.
Hospitals and health centres in HCM City’s districts and wards last year attracted more patients, reducing overcrowding at central and city-level hospitals.
District and provincial-level hospitals, in an attempt to receive more patients, are seeking additional training in advanced techniques from leading hospitals in an aim to improve service quality.
District-level hospitals in HCM City are now using more advanced techniques and treatment, often performing at a level that matches city-level hospitals.
Thanks to technical assistance from surgeons at HCM City’s Thu Duc District Hospital, doctors at District 11 Hospital were able to perform, for the first time, operations on a broken leg and hernia.
The building and upgrading of new health facilities in the country as well as the improved capacity of doctors, especially at the grassroots level, has helped reduce patient overload at hospitals.
More hospitals will be upgraded or newly built in Ho Chi Minh City this year to reduce the number of patients who have to share a bed, the municipal Department of Health has said.
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