Illustrative photo (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of
Health has synchronously implemented measures to ease patient overload in
hospitals over the past five years, contributing to improving the quality of
health check-ups and treatment, said .
The ministry reported that after the
five-year implementation of the during
2015-2017, procedures for medical check-ups and treatment have been cut from 12-14 steps to 4-8 steps, helping
save 27.2 million working days each year.
The health sector has also built and
upgraded many hospitals and increased the rate of sick-beds per 10,000 people from
24.7 in 2012 to 31.4 in 2015 and 32.7 in 2016.
As many as 37 out of 39
have committed to having no cases of sharing bed in the first 24-48 hours of
hospital admission of patients.
At the same time, the ministry has made the
best use of 17 central hospitals and 75 satellite hospitals in cities and provinces,
while maintaining training courses and technical transfer for staff from
grassroots hospitals.
Minister Tien said apart from satellite
hospitals, the health sector has piloted the family doctor model, completed the
network of communal medical centres and intensified preventive medicine.
She, however, pointed out patient overload
in several central hospitals, and material facilities and human resources
failing to meet public demands for health care.
The sector aims to basically deal with
patient overload in hospitals by 2020, she said, adding that all hospitals at
the central, municipal and provincial levels in major cities like Hanoi and Ho
Chi Minh City are expected to promise to put an end to bed sharing in 2018.
All provincial hospitals are also set to
join the satellite hospital project and benefit from technical transfer, she
added.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
