National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (L) meets with health workers of the 108 Military Central Hospital on February 27. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – National Assembly
Chairman attended a gathering held at the 108 Military Central Hospital
in Hanoi on February 27 in celebration of the 68th Vietnamese
Doctors’ Day (February 27).
Addressing the event, Chairman Hue described
the job of as one of the few with high requirements for both
morality and specialised capacity, adding it is a particularly noble job
honoured by the Party, State, and people.
He highlighted Vietnam’s proud
healthcare achievements, including the considerably improved stature of the
Vietnamese people, the average life expectancy higher than the global average
and that in many countries with the same income level, the medical service
coverage larger than the Southeast Asian and global averages, the successful production
of most vaccines used in the expanded vaccination programme, the successful
application of many new techniques and high technologies, and especially the containment
of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last three years.
He also highly valued the activeness,
creativity, and dedication by the staff of the 108 Military Central Hospital to
caring for not only senior officials of the Party, State, and army but also for
the poor and residents in border and maritime areas.
Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and officials visit a patient under treatment at the on February 27. (Photo: VNA)The hospital is currently one of the
biggest centres for tissue and organ transplantation in Vietnam.
Setting several tasks for the
hospital, the top legislator affirmed that ministries, central agencies, Party
committees, administrations, and the entire political system will continue
standing side by side with the health sector by quickly overhauling policies
and laws and tackling obstacles and difficulties, thus creating the best
possible conditions for public health care and fundamental and breakthrough
improvements to the sector to be made.
On this occasion, the NA Chairman
visited and offered encouragement to health workers and patients at departments
of the hospital.
Sixty-eight years ago, on February
27, 1955, then President Ho Chi Minh delivered a letter to a conference of
medical workers, asking the sector to stay united, sincerely care for patients,
and develop the country’s health sector. Since then, the date February 27 has
become the sector’s traditional day./.
Source: VietnamPlus
