A doctor gives advice to an elderly women at the (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – The medical centre of
Thao Dien ward in District 2, , has become the first of its
kind in Vietnam to have 17 specialist doctors when a satellite consulting room
of the district’s hospital was opened there on August 8.
The facility is able to give check-up to more
than 300 patients each day. Its doctors specialise in emergency aid, internal
medicine, surgery, paediatrics, odonto-stomatology, otolaryngology,
ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, and traditional
medicine.
Aside from the high-quality staff, the consulting
room is also equipped with modern equipment, Director of the District 2
Hospital Tran Van Khanh said, adding that people who come to the clinic will
receive similar examinations as at his hospital.
The District 2 Hospital has invested 10 billion
VND (over 430,300 USD) in developing the satellite consulting room, which
initially focuses on basic examination and treatment activities and epidemic
prevention. In the future, the hospital will develop it into a specialist
consulting room with high techniques and low cost.
Tang Chi Thuong, Deputy Director of the HCM City
Health Department, said opening satellite consulting rooms at local medical
centres is one of the solutions to reduce the overload at higher-level
hospitals while making use of the clinics’ facilities and staff. It will also
help improve people’s trust in the grassroots healthcare network.
Before the , the hospitals of
Thu Duc and Tan Phu districts also opened consulting rooms at local clinics,
but these facilities are on a small scale and do not have as many specialist
doctors as the Thao Dien ward medical centre.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
