Health staff gives vaccines to a child in Long Bien district, Hanoi (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi
Department of Health has sent doctors, nurses and medical workers from central
level hospitals to district level facilities to help share advanced
professional techniques.
The plan aims to shorten the professional
capacity gap between medical staff at central and district levels.
Due to limited capacity of doctors at
grassroots-level hospitals, many patients infected with serious diseases must
be transferred to central hospitals, causing overcrowding. Meanwhile,
struggle to attract patients.
Doctor Nguyen Khac Hien, Director of the
city’s Health Department, said that this year 35 medical facilities in the city
have sent 55 , eight nurses, technicians and midwives specialising in
various major fields, from internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics
to ear-nose-throat and teeth to grassroots-level hospitals.
The mobilised healthcare workers have
strong professional qualifications. Many are heads and deputy heads of clinical
departments of .
Until now, 133 techniques have been
transferred through direct guidance.
The technique transfer has widened
opportunities for city dwellers to access better healthcare services.
Thanks to the transfer, My Duc Hospital
doctors are able to do ovarian cyst endoscopic surgeries. Quoc Oai Hospital can
do kidney dialysis.
In addition, doctors at Chuong My Hospital
are able to operate on thryroid gland lumps and conduct urinary analysis. Since
the transfer started in 2014, more and more patients in the district and from
surrounding areas flock to the hospital. The number of tables offering medical
examinations has risen from nine to 14 to meet increasing demands of local
patients.
The hospital’s 350 beds are always full,
with peak times having up to 400 inpatients.
Nguyen Quang Mau, Director of the Phuc Tho District
Hospital, said that conducting surgeries was very rare in the hospital before
July 2014. However, the hospital now conducts more than 100 surgeries each
month. Each day, there are up to six or seven operations, equal to the whole
month’s surgeries in previous years.
“Earlier, the hospital doctors never
thought of endoscopic surgeries. Now the technique is applied for ectopic
pregnancy and appendicitis surgeries,” he said.
According to the plan, there will be
additional 15 sent to 25 grassroots-level medical facilities
next year.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
