In November 2021, Quang Ninh experienced the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak. Every day, hundreds of people were hospitalized, but the number of people who became seriously ill or died was very low, only 1/10 of the national average. Speaking at a national health conference at that time, the leader of the Ministry of Health said that in order to prevent and control the epidemic, and be proactive in emergency situations, Quang Ninh must have had modern medical infrastructure, a team of highly skilled medical staff, a good system of preventive medicine, primary health care, and specialized health care...
Quang Ninh's healthcare is improving every day.
Quang Ninh General Hospital is a leading provincial hospital, the core of public health care. Dr. Nguyen Ba Viet, Director of the Provincial General Hospital, said: Since 2016, the hospital has mastered the technique of open heart surgery, the most difficult and complicated technique in the field of surgery that at that time not all central hospitals could do.
Approaching a patient who had just had a successful mitral valve replacement by doctors at the Provincial General Hospital, we learned that this patient had stage 3 heart failure and had undergone mitral valve repair surgery, meaning that when the heart anatomy is no longer intact, the heart muscle is attached to the pericardium, the pericardium becomes a mass, the risk of cardiac arrest and massive bleeding due to myocardial perforation is very high. Therefore, the surgery was much more difficult than in other cases. However, the surgery was successful, and the patient's heart recovered well after surgery.
Thanks to open heart surgery, hundreds of people with congenital heart disease, heart valve disease, heart blood vessel disease, etc. have been saved by doctors at the Provincial General Hospital; the rate of post-operative complications is very low, and there have been no deaths during surgery.
Currently, Quang Ninh provincial hospitals have deployed nearly 70% of the list of specialized techniques of the central level. According to Dr. Trinh Van Manh, Deputy Director of the Department of Health, in addition to the field of open heart surgery, the Cardiovascular Center (Provincial General Hospital) has saved the lives of thousands of patients related to coronary artery disease, cerebral vascular intervention, and visceral vascular intervention. In the field of cardiovascular disease, the Provincial General Hospital has installed artificial pacemakers. In the field of oncology, Bai Chay Hospital has mastered techniques in surgical diagnosis, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and the use of targeted drugs to treat difficult cancer diseases. In the field of obstetrics and pediatrics, Quang Ninh has a modern reproductive support center, thousands of children have been born by test-tube methods. In the field of neurosurgery, microsurgery has been applied to treat brain tumors and blood vessel tumors.
For district-level medical units, the pride of Quang Ninh is that there are units that meet up to 50% of the difficult medical techniques that the provincial level is implementing. On April 14, Tien Yen District Medical Center received patient Le Van H. (Tien Lang Commune, Tien Yen District) in a state of severe abdominal pain and stiff limbs. Using professional measures, the Center's doctors diagnosed patient H. with a perforated stomach and promptly performed medical procedures to handle it promptly and effectively. Patient H.'s health condition improved immediately after surgery.
Treatment of perforated hollow organs is a medical technique not unfamiliar to provincial hospitals, but is a new technique for district-level medical units. Because with this injury, the patient is at risk of fluid accumulation, effusion, inflammation, infection, poisoning, and worsening can lead to death. The fact that Tien Yen District Medical Center confidently treated patient H. shows the progress of district-level medical units.
The achievements in specialized areas of the provincial health sector are remarkable, helping people not have to transfer to other facilities but still have access to advanced techniques, specialized techniques, and modern equipment right in their home province.
According to Mr. Nguyen Trong Dien, Director of the Department of Health, there is a statistic to show the progress in the medical capacity of Quang Ninh, from 2015 onwards, the rate of patients transferred to central hospitals in Quang Ninh was about 20%, now it is less than 1%. Quang Ninh's medical system is improving every day, receiving more and more trust from patients.
Constantly striving for people's health
In fact, from early on, from afar, Quang Ninh province, the provincial health sector has made the right investment, the right direction, the right time to assign the provincial General Hospital to develop the Cardiovascular Center, and assign Bai Chay Hospital to develop the Oncology Center. These centers have been invested in infrastructure, appropriate equipment and machinery, especially trained human resources good at surgical techniques, good at anesthesia, resuscitation and post-resuscitation care.
Dr. Le Ngoc Dung, Director of Bai Chay Hospital, analyzed: Just considering investment in medical equipment, the province has invested in medical machines that even the central level does not have; such as the smart operating room system at Bai Chay Hospital, integrating the Navigation positioning system and mobile CT, that is, the mobile CT system in the operating room. At this time, the advanced techniques of the Vietnam Cardiovascular Intervention Center have been applied right at the Provincial General Hospital. The centers for tissue, embryo, and stem cell research have also been deployed by Quang Ninh at the Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital. This shows that the Quang Ninh health sector has invested in very basic equipment.
Doctor Bui Van The, Department of Obstetrics, Quang Ninh Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital, was transferred to work as Director of Tien Yen District Medical Center. This is also a way to improve the quality of primary health care. Doctor The said: Thanks to policies to attract talent, many doctors and PhDs trained abroad have returned to serve the province's health care. Tien Yen District Medical Center is willing to pay a 50% salary increase for good doctors in the first year, and pay an additional 2 months of basic salary for the following years.
Quang Ninh also has a socialization program, joint ventures and partnerships in human resources in the medical field. Bai Chay Hospital has invited leading professors from central hospitals to deploy advanced techniques and specialized techniques every day, creating conditions for Quang Ninh people to receive high-quality medical examination and treatment. The Department of Health has established a team of medical experts. On this basis, grassroots medical centers share high-quality medical human resources.
Provincial hospitals provide professional support to lower-level medical units. Bai Chay Hospital is ready to send volunteers to the grassroots to train, guide, and provide comprehensive support to Binh Lieu District Medical Center from planning, techniques, information technology, to direct patient examination. Grassroots medical units are connected to central hospitals through a remote medical examination and treatment system. The health sector encourages the establishment of specialized associations so that grassroots doctors and nurses have a forum to learn and share experiences.
During the Covid-19 outbreak, the provincial health sector has implemented a program of rotating provincial doctors to support district doctors, and district doctors to support commune doctors, ensuring that 100% of medical facilities, even the smallest ones, have doctors.
The method of utilizing human resources, intelligence, and expertise from the upper level for the lower level has helped Quang Ninh Health solve a "bottleneck" in reducing the gap and disparity between the grassroots health care level and the provincial health care level. Quang Ninh Health currently has a good grassroots health care foundation, a good disease prevention and control system, and a specialized treatment system, meeting the health care needs of people in the province.
Following closely the socio-economic development of the province, the health sector continues to bring medical services to tourists, so that tourists can combine health care and medical tourism. This orientation has been tested at Bai Chay Hospital in recent times. Bai Chay Hospital currently has 27 business-class rooms with full amenities, ensuring to bring relaxing moments to patients; affirming the brand, leaving an impression on the people and tourists.
Mr. Nguyen Trong Dien, Director of the Department of Health, affirmed: We are determined to improve the capacity of grassroots health care, improve the capacity of the preventive health system and bring specialized, high-quality, advanced techniques to provincial hospitals. Quang Ninh health care is showing great positive signs, promising a breakthrough in service quality and medical examination and treatment services. That is, the Provincial General Hospital is being built with a scale of 500 beds. The Provincial CDC Center, the Provincial Geriatric and Rehabilitation Hospital are gradually being completed. These are also 2 health sector projects to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Quang Ninh province.
Quang Ninh is increasingly improving the quality of people's lives, in which improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, care and protection of people's health is one of the important tasks, contributing to this goal of the province. With the existing foundation, with love and professional responsibility, the staff and leaders of the provincial health sector are determined to continue to create new steps forward, satisfy patients, move towards modern medical services, realize the aspiration of building Quang Ninh into a model province, becoming the initial and specialized medical examination and treatment center of Vietnam.
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