PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc (third, right) presents a gift to Cho Ray Hospital. (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNA)
– Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has applauded Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray
Hospital for its efforts to apply technical advancements in medical check-up
and treatment, as well as its renovations in management, especially
.
He made the appraisal while
visiting Cho Ray Hospital, one of the leading hospitals in the southern region,
on February 24 on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of Vietnamese Doctors’
Day (February 27).
The PM said the number of 1.5
million people using Cho Ray Hospital’s services in 2017 has reflected its
prestige, particularly in the southern region.
The leader used the occasion
to call on doctors and health workers nationwide to overcome difficulties and
limitations in order to better meet public demands for health care.
Greater efforts should be
made to deal with shortcomings relating to medical ethics, patients overload in
hospitals, antibiotic abuse, administrative reform, medical equipment and
medicine management, and security and safety in hospitals, he stressed.
PM Phuc urged the health
sector to review, amend and supplement suitable mechanisms and policies to
encourage different economic sectors to invest in health care, thus helping
improve the quality of medical check-up and treatment.
Established in 1900, Cho
Ray Hospital was one of the first public hospitals nationwide to establish a
self-mechanism in 2010.
is one of the four health centres recognised as special hospital, together with
Vietnam-Germany Hospital and Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, and Hue Central
Hospital in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
With 4,000 staff, the
hospital admitted patients from 23 southern cities and provinces. During the
recent Tet holiday, which lasted from February 14-20, it received nearly 2,200
patients.
In 2017, Cho Ray Hospital recorded noted
achievements, including the adoption of a robot-assisted system to perform
complex minimally invasive surgery.
This is the third hospital
in Vietnam that has applied the most advanced medical technology, according to
Luong Ngoc Khue, head of the Ministry of Health’s Medical Examination and
Treatment Department.
Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital also successfully
performed organ transplants for four patients from an 18-year-old girl rendered
brain-dead by a traffic accident.
It is the
first time that Cho Ray Hospital doctors have performed a heart transplant and
the second time they were doing a liver transplant, thanks to technology
transfer from the Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi, a leading institution for surgery
in Vietnam, and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s ASAN Medical Centre.
The same day, visited Tam Duc Cardiology
Hospital in HCM City.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
