Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital signed a professional cooperation agreement with Kon Tum Provincial Hospital - Photo: Provided by the hospital
On the morning of May 24, Dr. Diep Bao Tuan - Deputy Executive Director of Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital - said that the hospital had just signed a "Professional Cooperation Agreement with Kon Tum Provincial General Hospital and Gia Lai Provincial General Hospital".
Specifically, Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital has signed a professional cooperation agreement related to a number of chemotherapy and surgical techniques to treat cancer with these two hospitals.
According to Dr. Tuan, after this signing ceremony, the Oncology Hospital will organize training courses and send experts to directly support Kon Tum General Hospital. The first technique will be "Ultrasound-guided subcutaneous injection chamber placement".
As for Gia Lai Provincial General Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital has committed to quickly transferring some techniques in the coming June. The techniques that will be transferred are fine needle aspiration cytology (FNA/SA), pathology, palliative care, and then continue with other techniques in the fields of chemotherapy, radiosurgery, and surgery.
Dr. Tuan commented: "The program signed with provincial hospitals in the Northern Central Highlands region was a great success. This program aims to share experiences, support technical expertise, help improve the capacity of lower-level medical examination and treatment facilities, and contribute to reducing the load on upper-level medical examination and treatment facilities."
These signed agreements are built and implemented according to the regional linkage project for the period 2025-2030 focusing on a number of areas such as screening, diagnosis and early detection of cancer, chemotherapy - radiotherapy - surgery, palliative care... and a number of activities related to specialized scientific activities.
Previously, Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital also signed a professional cooperation agreement with Ba Ria Hospital.
Many patients have to wait for surgery and radiotherapy at Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital.
Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital, Branch 2, has been put into operation with a scale of 1,000 beds according to international standards and many modern machines. The hospital is expected to solve the overload situation for decades at the examination department of Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital, Branch 1, as well as shorten the waiting time for radiotherapy for patients. However, after only a year of operation, the hospital is already overloaded.
There are currently about 500 - 600 cancer patients on the waiting list for radiotherapy at the hospital, as well as many patients waiting for surgery.
Currently, the hospital receives 4,700 - 4,800 patients for examination every day, 950 inpatients and about 1,000 - 1,100 outpatients receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy during the day.
Of these patients coming for examination and treatment, 84% come from provinces and cities in the region, while previously this rate was only about 75%. The number of patients with addresses in Ho Chi Minh City coming to the hospital for examination has not fluctuated much, only about 700 - 750 patients per day.
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