Made-in-Vietnam (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Health Ministry has released its top ten events of 2016.
1-At
7:20 am on January 22, the first baby born through surrogacy was delivered by
Caesarean section at the Hanoi-based .
was official allowed in the Law on
Marriage and Family adopted by the National Assembly in 2015. As by now, nearly 200 surrogacy cases have
been approved, with 30 surrogate mothers having given birth.
Only three
hospitals meet the technical requirements for surrogacy. They are the Central
Maternity Hospital in Hanoi, Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, and Hue-based
Central Hospital.
2-Hospitals nationwide implemented synchronous
measures for better patients’ satisfaction about their services.
The
measures, which included promoting friendly attitude of staff, building clean
and green facilities, and improving comprehensive management, have brought
about positive changes.
3-Vietnam successfully produced
measles-rubella vaccine
The
Centre for Research and Production of Vaccines and Biology announced on
November 8 that domestically-produced measles-rubella vaccine had been
clinically tested and proven safe and effective.
The
vaccine was produced under a joint project with the Japan International
Co-operation Agency (JICA). It will be available for the national expanded
immunization programme as from 2017.
4-The
first robotic laparoscopic surgery was successfully performed on an adult
On
December 10, ten adult patients at the Binh Dan Hospital in HCM City’s District
3 received robotic surgery. The hospital also put into operation a robotic
surgery facility, the second of its kind in Vietnam.
In
2013, the National Hospital of Paediatrics carried out similar surgery for
children.
5-The
health insurance coverage reached 81.3 percent of population as of November 30,
exceeding the early target by 2.3 percent.
6- The
moved up 9 places in the ministerial-level public administration
reform (PAR) index to the 8th out of 19 ministries and ministerial-level
agencies.
7-The
Prime Minister approved a project on developing grassroots health facility
network.
The
network covers medical stations at districts, towns, villages, communes, wards
and cities under provincial-level. The project focuses on boosting human
resources as well as overhauling the structure, finance and operation mechanism
of these facilities. The work is expected to help improve service quality and
ease overcrowded conditions at central medical facilities.
8-Medical workers’ salaries were calculated in
insurance-covered health services fees.
The
move was in line with the roadmap for the adjustment of public service prices
as regulated in Decree 16/2015/ND-CP.
As
such, the State budget previously used for paying medical workers is
transferred to support people joining health insurance.
9-A
common code list for health management, treatment and health insurance payment
was implemented for the first time.
The
list serves data connection among management agencies, medical establishments
and the Vietnam Social Insurance to better manage patients’ records and
facilitate insurance payment procedures.
10-Vietnam was elected to the World Health
Organisation’s Executive Board for 2016 – 2019.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
