Synchronous deployment, widespread dissemination

According to Colonel Tran Cong Truong, Deputy Director of the Military Medical Department (General Department of Logistics), over the past 5 years, the PTTĐ building "5 good military medical units" has continued to receive attention from the Party Committees and commanders of agencies and units throughout the army, leading, directing, and organizing serious and effective implementation. Units regularly propagate and educate about PTTĐ to all officers and soldiers, creating a unified awareness, building motivation, sense of responsibility, and determination to implement PTTĐ. In particular, PTTĐ has received a very high response and consensus from the team of officers and employees of the military medical sector, thereby promoting responsibility, fully and creatively implementing the "5 good" contents that the sector has launched, practically contributing to improving the quality of work to protect and care for the health of soldiers and people.

Together with the working groups of the Military Medical Department, we surveyed and inspected a number of units and found that the PTTĐ was maintained in a disciplined manner. To improve the effectiveness of the movement, the units combined the PTTĐ to build "5 Good Military Medical Units" with the PTTĐ "The Army Logistics Sector Follows Uncle Ho's Teachings", PTTĐ Quyết Thắng and other movements and campaigns.

Along with promoting education and propaganda work, many units have built effective models and methods, replicated advanced examples, thereby promoting PTTĐ to develop both in breadth and depth, completing the 5 contents of PTTĐ to build "5 good military medical units" as set out, including: Emulation in combat readiness service (SSCĐ), training, building good units; building a scientific and hygienic lifestyle, ensuring good health; good health management and emergency, treatment; combining modern medicine with good traditional medicine; emulation in good management and use of drugs and medical equipment.

Military doctors at the 5G Infectious Diseases Field Hospital instruct Covid-19 patients on rehabilitation exercises. Photo taken in September 2021. Photo: DANG DUY

Complete the task of ensuring military medicine well

According to Major General, Professor, Dr. Nguyen Truong Giang, Director of the Military Medical Department, through the implementation of PTTĐ, the military medical units have regularly and proactively grasped the situation, improved the system of combat readiness documents and plans to handle unexpected situations, in accordance with the unit's tasks. The military medical sector has successfully completed the task of participating in drills and ensuring drills at all levels, typically participating in the command-staff exercise of strategic agencies in 2018; deploying field hospitals to participate in joint drills, including joint drills for disaster relief and epidemics in the Vietnam-China border area; strategic combat drills in a number of battlefield directions... contributing to fostering and training the capacity of command, coordination, mobile organization, and performing field missions.

Over the past 5 years, the military medical sector has regularly reviewed and reserved combat readiness military medical materials according to Directive No. 15/CT-TM of the Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army and the guidance of the Military Medical Department to ensure that they are suitable for the practical situation; organized and provided full initial equipment of military medical supplies according to the instructions and orders of superiors. Up to now, the Military Medical Department has researched, coordinated the production and construction of more than 20 types of equipment, focusing on equipping forces participating in protecting the sovereignty of the sea and islands; built a list and ensured medicine and equipment for submarines; equipped remote medical examination and treatment systems for the Navy, Coast Guard, Border Guard, etc.

Lieutenant Colonel Duong Van Hai, Chief of Military Medicine of Division 367 (Air Defense - Air Force) shared: “In recent years, the epidemic situation in the area where the unit is stationed has been complicated, while the units of the Division are stationed scatteredly, the intensity of the troops' activities is high. Implementing the PTTĐ to build "5 good military medical units", the Division's military medical sector always closely follows reality, effectively mobilizes resources, prioritizes timely assurance of military medicine for combat readiness tasks, training and regular and unexpected tasks of the unit. In particular, the Division's military medical agency has focused on adjusting the amount of military medical material reserves in accordance with the Division Commander's instructions; regularly perfecting and supplementing combat documents during drills according to the plan to ensure and successfully complete assigned tasks".

Studying at the Cao Bang Provincial Border Guard, we saw that the medical force of the unit always strictly maintained the regimes and professional work order. Border posts and training units all organized and effectively promoted the planting and development of medicinal herb gardens; regularly trained 5 emergency techniques, transfer of wounded soldiers at the front line, integrated into the training program for new soldiers; promptly propagated and disseminated to soldiers and people in the stationed area measures to prevent and control epidemics, especially seasonal epidemics, contributing to improving knowledge, quality and effectiveness of primary health care for officers, soldiers and people in border areas.

In addition to the above results, in an exchange with Colonel Bui Duc Hai, Deputy Head of the Planning Staff Department (Military Medical Department), we learned that over the past 5 years, military academies and schools have trained more than 7,800 military medical officers and staff to serve in units; trained thousands of civilian doctors, village and hamlet medical staff, nurses and pharmacists to serve in the health sector to provide health care for people across the country. From 2018 to present, the Military Medical Department and military medical units have organized hundreds of training courses for military medical officers and staff; many scientific conferences and competitions for the entire army have been organized to promote the scientific research capacity and creativity of military medical staff at all levels to improve the quality of health care for soldiers and people...

From 2018 to present, the military medical sector has implemented more than 2,800 scientific research projects, including 43 national-level projects and 129 Ministry of National Defense-level projects. Many individuals in the military medical sector have been honored to receive the Vifotec Award, hundreds of works by young scientists in the military medical sector have been awarded the Creative Youth Award in the Army, including 14 first prizes. Notably, in 2022, the Military Medical Academy was honored to receive the Ho Chi Minh Prize for Science and Technology as a co-author of the Cluster of Works "Research on the application of advanced techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases".

(To be continued)

VAN CHIEN-HONG ANH