Doctors of Trung Vuong Hospital in HCM City’s District 10 perform an endovascular intervention on a patient (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Public hospitals in will
be allowed to employ doctors and other health staff members without the city’s
household registration book starting in November, helping them solve a shortage
of , according to the city Department of Health.
The current regulation which
allows state offices, departments and public establishments including hospitals
to employ only staff with an HCM City’s household registration book, had caused
difficulties for them in hiring.
The Department of Health
said that public hospitals, such as Pham Ngoc Thanh Hospital, Hospital for
Tropical Diseases, Cu Chi and Can Gio district hospitals, have not been able to
hire doctors and other medical staff due to this regulation in spite that they
were in a severe shortage of the staff.
Dr Huynh Van Luyen, head of
the Can Gio District Hospital, told Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated
Sai Gon) newspaper that the Department of Health had sent doctors of city
hospitals to work turn-by-turn at the hospital to help ensure enough doctors to
serve local demand for health examination and treatment.
The hospital also has
signed short-term contracts with retired doctors, Luyen said.
has not employed enough doctors to meet demand, Dr Nguyen Huu Tho, the
hospital’s head, said, adding that it needs to hire 10 additional doctors each
year, but only two or three doctors have been employed.
Moreover, representatives
of said that many qualified medical graduates who come from
other provinces and want to work at public hospitals in the city are not
allowed to.
On August 24, the city
People’s Committee issued the decision on abolishing the regulation.
According to Luyen, the new
decision will help his hospital hire enough qualified doctors.
However, managers of public
hospitals in provinces are worried because they will face a shortage of
qualified doctors.
They are worried about
whether qualified doctors, who are working at their hospitals, will quit jobs
and go to work at public hospitals in the city.
Nguyen Thanh Tung, head of
Hau Giang province’s Department of Health, said that most medical students
wanted to stay in the city to work after graduating because of higher income
and better incentives as well as chances for accessing advanced medical
techniques to improve their skills.
“Only a few of them go
back to their native province to work,” Tung said.
Dr Nhan To Tai, head of the
District 12 Hospital, said that if hospitals in provinces failed to have enough
doctors, local residents would continue going straight to health facilities in
HCM City for health examination and treatment, leading to more overcrowding of
patients, which the city has tried to solve many times.
According to Nguyen Thi Huynh
Mai, chief of the city’s Department of Health’s Secretariat, public hospitals
should develop good working environments and provide better incentives to help
doctors have chances to improve their skills in order to avoid the doctors
quitting.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
