Many scientific and technological advancements were applied successfully in organ transplants in 2017. (Source: VNA)Hanoi
(VNA) – The has announced the top ten events of Vietnam’s
in 2017 as follows:
1. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam issued Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW on enhancing the protection, care and improvement of and Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW on population work.
2. Wages of health workers included in costs of medical services
Wages
for health workers were included in the costs of the medical services at public
hospitals for the first time, contributing to improving the quality of health
examination and treatment and increasing the coverage of health insurance to
nearly 86 percent.
In
particular, the pricing scheme creates conditions for hospitals to improve the
quality of health services and to better serve insurance card holders while
encouraging grassroots hospitals to develop medical techniques to reduce
overloading at central hospital.
The
scheme does not affect policy beneficiaries, children under six years old or
needy people who receive state subsidy in .
3. Organisational apparatus streamlined
In
2017, the health sector rearranged the medical system and streamlined the
apparatus by merging medical centres without beds into provincial or municipal
disease control centres.
Each
province cut down an average five medical centres without beds and all 63
provinces and cities nationwide are expected to reduce 315 medical centres,
resulting in the elimination of at least 1,260 managerial positions in addition
to the reduction of staffing and saving State funds.
4. Many scientific and technological advancements applied successfully in organ transplants
Doctors at the 103
Military Hospital and the Vietnam Military Medical University worked with
Japanese experts to perform the first human lung transplant in Vietnam on a
6-year-old boy on February 21, 2017.
Ten-year-old
Nguyen Thanh Dat became the youngest patient in Vietnam to receive a transplanted
heart after a 10-hour surgery at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi on March
15.
Cho Ray Hospital
set eight Vietnamese records in the transplant area recognised by the Vietnam
Book of Records, including “the first hospital to perform a kidney transplant
from a brain-dead donor in Vietnam,” “the first hospital to carry out a kidney
transplant from a non-heart-beating donor in Vietnam” and “the unit
performing the most kidney transplants in Vietnam.”
5. Creation of personal health records at
commune health stations and implementation of the grassroots health care
promotion project
For
the first time, individual health records associated with universal health
insurance were established in 2017. Up to 78 percent of more than 11,400
commune-level health stations had doctors, making it easier for the management
of personal health records. The establishment of personal health records and
the coverage of health insurance for all people will be one of the steps to
carry out comprehensive health care at the grassroots level.
6. National immunisation information system
launched
Launched
on March 24, the National Immunisation Information System has been running in
63 cities and provinces nationwide since June 1, 2017. So far, the system has
recorded 8,713,381 people. The system ensures the lifetime management of all
immunised people through their ID.
7. Centralised drug procurement bidding to reduce
drug prices, save money
The
National Centralised Drug Procurement Centre carried out the first
ever centralised bidding for procurement of five active substances and 22 types
of drugs. The total bid price was more than 2.269 trillion VND (100 million USD)
while the estimated price of these pharmaceutical products was 2.746 trillion VND
(121 million USD), helping save more than 477 billion VND (21 million USD).
8. Vietnam produces measles-rubella vaccine
Vietnam
has become one of four Asian countries capable of producing the measles-rubella
vaccine, after China, Japan and India. This is the first time Vietnam has
produced the two in one vaccine, using modern technologies. The vaccine was
approved by the Health Ministry in March 2017 to be put into circulation, one
year ahead of schedule.
9. Kidney dialysis incident at Hoa Binh General
Hospital.
Eighteen
patients undergoing hemodialysis at Hoa Binh General Hospital on May 29, 2017
suffered signs of anaphylactic shock after one hour of hemodialysis.
Eight
of them died while ten others were transferred to Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi.
The
Ministry of Public Security’s Criminal Science Institute announced that water samples
from dialysis machines number 10 and 13 had a low level of potential of hydrogen
(pH) and high conductivity. The florua level in the machines were 245 and 260
times higher, respectively, than permissible limit of Association for the
Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).
The
other dialysis machines tested also had the florua levels hundreds of times
higher than permitted.
10. Violence, attacks on health workers
The
community and the media condemned attacks on health workers, including the cases
at Thach That Hospital in Hanoi, Hospital 115 in central Nghe An province, the
medical centre in Huong Long commune, central Ha Tinh province, Viet Nam – Cuba
Friendship Hospital in Dong Hoi city, central Quang Binh province and Hospital
115 in northern Thai Binh province.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
