After more than 60 years of construction and development, Children's Hospital 1 has the goal of developing specialized pediatrics with 5 priority areas: Neonatology, Emergency Resuscitation, Interventional Surgery, Pediatric Cardiology and Infectious Diseases. The hospital currently has 1,768 staff; examining and treating all diseases of children aged 16 and under. With a scale of 1,500 beds per day, the hospital has about 5,000 patients coming for examination and treatment at peak times. With a lot of efforts and struggles, Children's Hospital 1 has reduced the patient mortality rate to only 0.3%.
In 2005, the hospital established the first neonatal intensive care unit with new neonatal resuscitation techniques such as high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFO), NO gas ventilation, whole-body cooling for the treatment of brain diseases due to lack of oxygen, and surgery for congenital malformations. The hospital has a 70-bed Emergency and Intensive Care - Anti-Poisoning Unit with many modern resuscitation techniques applied, saving many serious cases, contributing to significantly reducing the child mortality rate.
President Vo Van Thuong with leaders and doctors of Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA
The hospital has promoted the development of endoscopic surgery, expanded the implementation of thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, urology, and maxillofacial surgery. The hospital has also developed the Real-time PCR technique to isolate EV71 virus, contributing to reducing the rate of diagnosis of encephalitis of unknown cause from 70% to 30%. The hospital has strengthened international cooperation, promoted activities to support poor patients, perfected the comprehensive care model and hospital quality management model, and promoted the widespread application of information technology in management.
President Vo Van Thuong encouraged and congratulated the staff, medical staff and workers of Ho Chi Minh City Children's Hospital 1 on Vietnamese Doctors' Day. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA
Notably, recently, the interventional cardiology team of Children's Hospital 1 collaborated with the surgical team of Tu Du Hospital to successfully perform "intrauterine cardiac catheterization" on a fetus with severe congenital heart disease. According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, this fetal cardiac catheterization is truly a new step forward in advanced techniques on par with developed countries in the region. In the world, only a few places such as Brazil, Poland... have successfully performed this technique. Countries in the region that have achieved many medical achievements such as Singapore, Thailand... have not yet implemented fetal cardiac catheterization.
Throughout the development process, the Hospital has always oriented towards 3 characteristics: Mass, Science and Humanity. Based on science in expertise, science in management, ensuring medical equity, caring for poor patients, building a friendly environment, linking frontline support, and orienting towards the community, the Hospital has both developed specialized spearheads and implemented community-oriented medicine, creating a foundation for continuous construction and development.
Delighted to visit the doctors and medical staff of Children's Hospital 1 on the occasion of Vietnamese Doctors' Day, witnessing the special achievements in medical work and people's health care of the Hospital, President Vo Van Thuong acknowledged, highly appreciated and said that this result was achieved thanks to the correct orientation of the City's leaders, the Department of Health and the Hospital's leadership over the years towards the goal of striving to become a top 5 high-quality pediatric medical center in Southeast Asia.
President Vo Van Thuong visits the mother of the first successful fetal interventional cardiac catheterization case. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA
The President highly appreciated the medical staff of Children's Hospital 1 for always being united, courageous, confident in their expertise, loving patients, daring to think and act for the health of the people, creating very proud achievements.
The President said that as the leading hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, the final specialized medical facility in the Southern region, in the context of rapidly changing disease patterns of children, with many new diseases, the hospital's doctors and nurses have actively researched and built a suitable health care model for patients.
The President highly appreciated the hospital's reduction of the mortality rate from about 1.4% in 2005 to only 0.3% in 2023. In particular, the hospital has made remarkable progress recognized by the world and Vietnamese medical communities, typically the first fetal heart intervention cases in Southeast Asia. This is a manifestation of the spirit of daring to think, daring to do for the lives and health of patients. This is a collective of hearts beating in unison, a brave heart, and extraordinary courage of doctors and nurses.
The President said that, in addition to the statistics, the success of Children's Hospital 1 also demonstrates the courage, daring to think and act based on the professional confidence of the doctors and nurses, and the desire to contribute to the health of children, bringing joy and happiness to many families and society. These are things that statistical reports cannot fully express.
President Vo Van Thuong visits a child patient being treated at Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA
The President emphasized that medicine is a noble profession because it protects health, brings life to people, brings positive emotions to society, brings joy and happiness to families, but it is also a difficult profession, requiring constant efforts to learn and improve. The President hopes that doctors and medical staff always keep in their hearts a strong desire and love for the profession to continue to strive and work.
The President said that the medical profession is different from many other professions, being good at professional skills is important but not enough, it also requires a spirit of sympathy and sharing like a relative of the patient. What a doctor brings to the patient, besides professional knowledge, is also sharing and sympathy.
The President hopes that the doctors and nurses of Children's Hospital 1 will maximize the achievements they have made in the past time; at the same time, strive to continue to reap new successes because achievements always pose new challenges to overcome, requiring constant efforts. Along with that, continue to expand international cooperation in the region and the world with the pride that Vietnamese doctors and nurses can confidently share experiences with the international medical community. Make more efforts to improve and enhance the effectiveness of hospital management, to build a smart, friendly, green, clean, beautiful hospital, applying to the maximum the achievements of science and technology in management and treatment.
President Vo Van Thuong visits a child patient being treated at Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA
The President instructed the city leaders, all levels and sectors to pay attention to and improve the lives of doctors, nurses and medical staff; to constantly upgrade medical facilities and equipment; to focus on continuing to train the next generation of doctors, especially sending young doctors to study medical experience in countries with developed medicine to promote the achievements and traditions of the Hospital in the future.
The President requested the Hospital to pay attention to, guide and support lower-level hospitals in handling difficult cases; thereby contributing to reducing the burden on upper-level hospitals, while improving the quality of lower-level hospitals.
President Vo Van Thuong and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen presented gifts and congratulated the leaders of Children's Hospital 1 and Tu Du Hospital for successfully performing two consecutive fetal interventional cardiac catheterizations. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA
President Vo Van Thuong and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen presented gifts and congratulated the teams of Children's Hospital 1 and Tu Du Hospital for successfully performing two consecutive fetal interventional cardiac catheterizations. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA
According to VNA/Tin Tuc Newspaper
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