Observation and care for patient at the private general hospital Hong Ngoc in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)
instructed health departments nationwide to strictly inspect private health
clinics to ensure they are offering .
Local health departments will be required to disseminate
information about health examinations and treatment to all private health
facilities and ensure that local private practitioners have certificates to
practise in their field.
The departments will also be required to publicise on their
respective websites lists of licensed private health facilities that have
violated regulations on and treatment.
The ministry said that more effective s at private
health facilities would also help to identify and correct violations in a
timely manner.
The country has 206 private hospitals and more than 30,000 health
clinics, according to the Ministry of Health.
Some of the violations that have occurred include: employing
foreign doctors without a licence to practise from the Vietnamese government;
using medicine without origin or medicine not allowed in Vietnam; and doctors
promoting expertise in fields which they do not have licence to operate.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health said that it would
follow the ministry’s instruction and would require its district health offices
to enhance supervision at all clinics.
The city would offer its third training course for general health
clinics next month, and investors in the clinics who have yet to attend must
register for the course as well.
In June, the city department conducted its fourth assessment this
year of the quality of 24 general health clinics.
Of the 24 clinics, 15 of them failed to meet most of the
department’s quality standards.
The names of the 15 clinics have been published on the
department’s website.
Inspectors found that the clinics had not publicised prices of
technical services or had not carried out activities for management of tests
and biological safety in testing rooms. Some had used medical techniques that
had not been approved by the health department.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
