President commends achievements by Children’s Hospital 1

visits the Children’s Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – President Vo Van
Thuong on February 22 visited the in Ho Chi Minh City on
the occasion of (February 27).

The State leader lauded achievements recorded by the
hospital, which is striving to be listed in the top five children’s hospitals
in Southeast Asia.  

Given the rapid developments of childhood diseases,
including emerging ones, the hospital’s doctors and nurses have put in place
appropriate health care models, he said, stressing its mortality rate dropped
to 0.3% last year from about 1.4% in 2005.

Its progress has been recognised by the international
and domestic , President Thuong said, taking the example of the first prenatal
heart surgeries in Southeast Asia conducted in the hospital.

President Vo Van Thuong speaks at the meeting with the hosptial’s staff. (Photo: VNA)

However, such statistics are not enough to
demonstrate the mettle and good professional skills of the hospital’s doctors,
as well as their dedication to child patients, he noted.

The President suggested the hospital expand
international cooperation, better the management work, and maximise
scientific-technological advances in both management and treatment.

The hospital should further guide and support
lower-level medical facilities in handling difficult cases, thus contributing
to easing hospital overload at the higher levels, President Thuong said.
 
He also asked municipal authorities to improve the
living standards of the hospital’s staff, upgrade its infrastructure, and pay
more attention to personnel training.

With 1,768 officials and health workers and a bed capacity of
1,500 each day, the hospital serves up to about 5,000 patients during peak
periods./.