Ho Chi Minh City has reached its goal to have 20 doctors per 10,000 people after implementation of a five-year programme on improving the quality of health care services for local residents.
On February 27, 1955, late President Ho Chi Minh sent a letter to a conference of health care workers across the country. The 368-word letter asked for three things: to stay honest and united, love patients, and devoted to developing the country’s healthcare sector. Since then February 27 has been known as Vietnamese Doctors’ Day.
Hanoi's health sector has improved its service in recent years, aiming to decrease the amount of money Vietnamese spend on treatment overseas, a figure that currently amounts to about 2 billion USD annually.
The Hanoi Oncology Hospital, the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Seongnam city and Bundang Jesaeng hospital under the Daejin Medical Fund will work together in training international medical experts following a memorandum of understanding signed in Hanoi on July 17.
Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City districts have shared knowledge about advanced medical techniques in an aim to offer treatment normally provided to patients admitted to city-level or central-level hospitals, under requirements of the city’s Department of Health.
The “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” title was bestowed upon the Hanoi-based Military Central Hospital 108, one of the five special nationwide hospitals, for a second time on December 17.
The first France – Vietnam conference on oncology took place in Ho Chi Minh City on November 18, bringing together leading oncologists from both countries.
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.
Politburo member and Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong on October 24 received a delegation of Japanese health experts led by Doctor Satoshi Nagasaka, head of the Thoracic Surgery Department of the Centre Hospital of Japan's National Center for Global Health and Medicine.
Members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in the central province of Quang Tri is carrying a volunteer campaign in Outhoumphone and Xaybuly districts of Savannakhet province of Laos from June 12–16.
Some 6.6 million people have received better medical treatment as a result of a project which rotates doctors from high-level to lower-level hospitals, implemented in Vietnam since 2008.
Ho Chi Minh City is willing to create all favourable conditions for Japanese investors, including those from Kanagawa prefecture, to operate effectively in the city.
The Ministry of Health has instructed health departments nationwide to strictly inspect private health clinics to ensure they are offering safe and high-quality treatment.
Health insurance profiteering is still common in private hospitals and health clinics, with medicine improperly prescribed and purchased, leading to an imbalance of the health care fund.
The Ministry of Health will soon spell out what medicines and medical techniques should be used by ward- and commune-level health centres around the country to make the family medicine model more efficient and reassure patients.
Local administrations should play a greater role in the national strategy on blindness prevention, head of the national steering committee for blindness control Nguyen Viet Tien said.
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