Illustrative image (Source: VNA) the quality of medical treatment was held in the central province of Thua
Thien-Hue on March 29, with the participation over 300 domestic and foreign
experts and doctors.
The seminar,
entitled “Enhancing quality of primary care following the principal of family
medicine”, was co-organised by Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy under Hue
University and the Wallonie Brussels delegation.
Assoc. Prof. Dr
Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the (MoH)’s Medical Services
Administration, said in 2013, the MoH approved a project to build and develop
the model of family clinic in eight provinces and cities nationwide.
The country
currently has 340 family clinics, including 256 public and 84 private ones.
However, there is a limit of skilled personnel, infrastructure, coordinating
regulations and information exchanges between those clinics and medical system,
he noted.
Khue said that Vietnam
needs to build a patient care database and a system of electrical medical
records in family clinics nationwide. Training courses for medical personnel
should be held frequently, he added, stressing the need to raise public
awareness about grassroots clinics and quality of medical treatment.
Rector of the
Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cao Ngoc Thanh said as the world and
Vietnam’s disease models have seen many changes, the family clinics and primary
care following the principal of will meet the demand for
comprehensive and qualified health treatment.
At the seminar,
participants also discussed ways to establish coordination mechanisms for
health care which optimise effects of medical treatment for senior citizens and
manage acute non-communicable diseases in grassroots clinics.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
