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City (VNA) – The training provided by leading central-level hospitals
in HCM City has helped doctors at provincial facilities apply latest techniques
and advances to treat heart patients, reducing the need for emergency
transfers.
In
the process, it has also improved the skills and professionalism of doctors at
the provincial level.
For
instance, doctors at Can Tho City General Hospital in the Mekong Delta are now
able to perform open heart surgeries, endoscopies, stent placements and
techniques after learning them from the Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City.
Early
last week, they implanted pacemakers in two patients 44 and 63 years old. The
patients, residents of Phong Dien and Ninh Kieu districts, were admitted with
heart rates of less than 40 beats per minute compared to normal 60 to 100 beats
per minute.
Moreover,
they suffered from bundle branch block, which causes delays and obstructions on
the pathway that sends electrical impulses to the left or the right side of the
bottom chambers of heart, leading to regular tiredness, vertigo and sometimes,
loss of consciousness.
Dr
Trinh Thanh Tam of Can Tho City General Hospital’s cardiovascular ward told the
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that doctors decided to implant pacemakers that
would work for a long time, providing electrical stimuli as needed to keep the
pulse rate normal.
If
this was not done, the patients were at risk of suffering a stroke, Tam said,
adding that this was a noninvasive technique.
Doctors
at Thong Nhat General Hospital in Dong Nai province have also benefited from
training provided by Cho Ray Hospital, enabling them to perform many procedures
on their own, including open and other cardiovascular
interventions.
Dr.
Pham Van Dung, the hospital’s director, said it was very important to develop
the expertise for making timely cardiovascular interventions and ensuring the
patients’ safety.
The
Dong Nai newspaper recently quoted the head of the provincial Department of
Health, Huynh Minh Hoan, as saying that learning and using advanced techniques
and technological developments is a common trend that hospitals all over the
country have to follow in the coming time.
Thong
Nhat Hospital in HCM City and Vinh Long province’s General Hospital also signed
a five-year (2016-2020) agreement on training the latter’s staff in
cardiovascular interventions within the period between 2016 and 2020.
Since
2013, a Satellite Hospital project has been providing training in advanced
techniques for treating heart diseases to private and public health facilities
throughout the country.
The
project is one of several measures being taken to improve the qualification of
doctors, especially those at provincial and grassroots levels, according to
Medical Examination and Treatment Department under the Health Ministry.
In
a recent conference, Dr Luong Ngoc Khue, the department’s head, said that
residents in outlying areas now had better access to modern treatment.
The
availability of modern treatments at more district and provincial hospitals in
recent years helped reduce overcrowding at major central and city-level
hospitals, he said.
In
particular, the rate of transfer to central and city-level hospitals had fallen
by 98.5 percent in patients with , he added.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
