A health check-up room at the Da Nang General Hospital. (Photo: VNA)Da Nang (VNS/VNA) – The under the central city’s General
Hospital has been given ‘platinum status’ by the
(WSO) for its efforts in caring for stroke patients in 2021.
Director of the hospital Le Duc Nhan said the awards resulted from the endless
endeavour of doctors, nurses and staff of the centre in applying procedures and
rescuing patients in the critical condition.
Deputy head of the stroke unit doctor Duong Quang Hai said the awards
recognised that people with stroke had been given rapid treatment and cared for
in an emergency at the hospital.
Hai said 75 percent of stroke patients were treated with door-to-recanalisation
therapy within 60 minutes, while more than 80 percent of all stroke patients
undergoing dysphagia had been screened and ischaemic stroke patients discharged
with antiplatelets of atrial fibrillation and anticoagulants.
The unit had practised ‘the golden period’ for saving the life of stroke
emergency patients at 8 percent in the standard of between 5 and 15 percent, he
said.
More than 4,000 are taken to the 100-bed unit annually, and
most of them are given active treatment and interventions within 40 minutes.
The unit also promotes communication and exchange with SOS groups via social
networks such as Zalo, Viber, and Facebook to speed up the time of rescuing
patients.
In 2020, the unit was granted the ‘golden status’ from the WSO for its efforts
to save the lives of stroke patients.
The Da Nang general hospital also assigned the first 200-bed cardiology centre
to provide cardiovascular examinations, treatment and surgeries for patients in
the city and the central and Central Highland provinces.
A report from the city’s health department showed that around 450 people out of
1,000 participating in a survey had high blood pressure, while 52 per cent of
people were found to have hypertension with health checks at local health
centres.
The city had launched the ‘Know Your Number’ campaign, which aims to address
the high rates of undiagnosed hypertension in adult men and women in the over
40 age group./.
Source: VietnamPlus
