Associate Professor PhD Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment (C) at the event (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has shared
its in preventing and controlling the pandemic and lessons to
make the initial success in treating the disease, as well as upcoming
orientations of its Ministry of Health (MoH) for the work.
Addressing a forum on
future health trends hosted by the National University of Singapore via a video
conference on November 18, Associate Professor PhD Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment
under the MoH, said Vietnam’s initial and positive success in disease
prevention, treatment and control was thanks to great efforts of the whole
political system, society, people and partners.
Vietnam has developed
strategies and plans to respond to disease situations, organised
treatment, management and caring at all levels, managed reports on the number
of COVID-19 cases and regularly updated professional guidelines, Khue noted.
It has also built regulations
on equipment, drugs and medical consumables for COVID-19 treatment units, established testing
systems at medical examination and treatment facilities, and implemented the assessment
of human resources working in resuscitation and infection, and provided
training courses to improve their expertise.
country also set up mobile teams to provide regular support to localities in
the work and an online centre for supporting COVID-19 treatment, while regularly
monitoring and supervising the implementation of safe hospital criteria in preventing the pandemic, he added.
In the time to come, will continue to
focus on both disease and economic development, with its priority
given to the development of a Tele-Medicine Network to improve the quality of
medical services, apply information technology in disease prevention and
control and treatment, Khue said.
Attention will be also paid to reducing hospital overloading and cross-infection at health facilities, he went on.
Participants to the
forum mainly focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the response of health systems,
especially difficulties to and challenges to allocating resources, including
financial ones; major policy changes; and recommendations for public – private
partnership.
technology and digital platforms in health systems such as tele-consult,
tele-monitoring, and drug delivery to increase efficiency and reduce costs for health
systems were also put on table.
The forum is rotated annually in Asia. Vietnam
hosted the event in 2016 and 2018.
This year’s forum saw the participation of health
experts from Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan (China), India, Indonesia, the Philippines,
and Bangladesh./.
Source: VietnamPlus
