People’s Hospital 115 is urgently developing plans for organizational structure, staffing, and medical expertise while arranging appropriate medical teams to ensure uninterrupted operations at its first facility and prepare to launch and gradually strengthen healthcare services at the second facility.
In addition to directly providing medical examinations and treatment at the second facility, People’s Hospital 115 will serve as the medical support hub for the Con Dao Special Zone Medical Station, gradually establishing a continuum of care.
Under the model, the medical station will provide primary care and manage residents’ health, while the hospital’s second facility will handle emergency cases as well as examinations and treatment for patients whose conditions exceed the medical station’s capacity.
The hospital’s medical expertise will gradually be brought to the island. Medical techniques that cannot yet be performed regularly in Con Dao will be supported through remote consultations, rotating specialists, and connections with the city’s network of tertiary hospitals.
The goal is to ensure that residents of Con Dao Special Zone receive better healthcare right on the island: conditions that can be treated locally will be managed locally, while severe and complex cases will be identified early, receive appropriate initial treatment, and be safely and promptly transferred to the mainland when necessary, Associate Professor and Doctor Tang Chi Thuong said.
This is also a concrete step toward realizing Ho Chi Minh City’s strategy of developing a multi-tiered, multi-polar, and multi-centered healthcare system, bringing specialized medical expertise closer to residents, including those living in the city’s most remote areas from the mainland, he added.
