Hung Vuong Maternity Hospital, Children’s Hospital 1,the People’s Hospital 115 are the top three medical facilities in HCMC in 2022, according to the Health Department’s report on the results of quality assessment of hospitals in the city in 2022.
The Medical Examination and Treatment Management Department (the Health Ministry) yesterday directed hospitals nationwide to ensure their duty on the approaching holiday.
Hospitals nationwide have so far been confronting a lack of both medicine and medical equipment, yet not much has been done to address the grave issue.
Many hospitals and clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have lately struggled to obtain sufficient medicines and medical equipment. There has been a serious lack of medical supply, and it is so challenging to stock more, while patients are in dying need of necessary medicine for their treatments or their diseases could worsen.
According to the HCMC Department of Health, 26 more public hospitals that specialized in treating Covid-19 patients will be returned to their pre-Surge functions, non-Covid work by October 31.
After more than 200 medical workers of Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital simultaneously quit the hospital to work for other facilities in April 2021, the problem of brain drain and doctors' income is once again raised though it is not new. Hospitals and medical workers have been so far struggling to achieve full self- autonomy.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc directed telehealth services provided by big hospitals must benefit people in disadvantaged districts and reduce patient overload in central infirmaries.
The HCMC Department of Health has assigned nine local hospitals to take care of patients in need of healthcare during their period of quarantine, in order to ensure regulations regarding COVID-19 prevention and control are met.
Most hospitals are urgently listing working shifts during Tet holiday (Lunar New Year) to ensure best healthcare services in these special holidays as well as take care patients and their relatives.
The application of information technology (IT) in medical treatment has been carried out by several hospitals nationwide to improve working performance, reduce financial as well as time waste, and release patients from unnecessary check-in procedures. In the reality, however, this implementation has run into grave difficulties.
Public hospitals in the Mekong delta are running low on doctors who have been quitting their job; accordingly, the hospitals stopped overtime examination affecting insured patients’ benefits.
The Ministry of Health sent its document to medical institutions and schools providing medical training asking to stop their own medical practice-oriented training courses.
Hospitals in Vietnam will provide gratis screening tests for patients with non-communicable diseases, said the Ministry of Health at a yesterday press brief.
The rate of good physicians in the southern province of Dong Nai leaving public hospitals for private facilities has risen alarmingly. Hence the provincial Department of Health has piloted physicians’ flat pay to increase their salary aiming to alleviate the matter.
The Vietnam Administration of Medical Services under the Ministry of Health and the Department of Administrative Management Police under the Ministry of Public Security yesterday signed an agreement on collaboration to ensure security in infirmaries.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved $100.6 million in financing to support the Government of Vietnam’s reform effort to improve health service delivery and the quality of health care providers, especially in poor and border crossings.
Hospitals Cho Ray, Thong Nhat and Children Hospital No. 2 yesterday signed cooperation agreement to coordinate organ donations and charity kidney transplantation.
People’s Committee in the Central City of Da Nang assigned the departments of Health, Home Affairs and Information and Communications to implement online appointment booking with doctors in hospitals and medical clinics in districts, communes.
