A good doctor must be like a mother!

69 years ago, in a letter to medical staff on February 27, 1955, President Ho Chi Minh advised: “Patients entrust their lives to you; the Government entrusts you to treat illnesses and maintain the health of our people. That is a very glorious task. Therefore, doctors must love and care for patients as if they were their own brothers and sisters, treating their pain as if they were their own, and physicians must be like mothers.” Following his teachings, over the years, the staff of the medical sector has continuously studied, improved their expertise, mastered many new techniques, and gradually improved the quality of health care for the people.

Remember Uncle Ho's teachings: A good doctor must be like a mother! A laparoscopic liver resection surgery for a patient at Thanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital.

Cultivate virtue, train talent, build medical ethics

Only with your own eyes can you see the pressure and hardship of the team of doctors and nurses in the Emergency Department - Intensive Care Unit 2, Thanh Hoa General Hospital. On holidays as well as on normal days, the work of the doctors, nurses and staff here is always busy from early morning until late at night, "wrestling" with death to win back the lives of patients; a wrong decision can cost a person's life.

Master, Doctor Lam Tien Tung, Head of the Emergency Department - Intensive Care Unit 2, said that every day the department receives nearly 200 emergency cases, including many "life-threatening" cases due to stroke, traumatic brain injury, myocardial infarction... From morning to night, doctors continuously examine and provide emergency care to patients, sometimes their legs are numb, their stomachs are growling with hunger but they cannot rest. Each difficult case is a new challenge, but also an opportunity to learn to improve professional knowledge and the most precious gift for us is when we save patients from death's door and return to normal life.

Talking with People's Physician, Doctor CKII Le Van Sy, Director of Thanh Hoa General Hospital, it is known that, along with performing well professional tasks, the hospital pays special attention to cultivating ethics and talent, constantly building a team of doctors who are both virtuous and professional; investing in facilities, advanced equipment and deploying the application of achievements, high and specialized techniques, constantly improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, worthy of being the leading bird of the province's health sector.

As one of the medical units with a team of cadres, doctors and nurses serving well the medical examination and treatment work for the people, Meritorious Doctor, Doctor CKII Nguyen Ngoc Han, Director of Trieu Son District General Hospital affirmed that the hospital has concretized with key tasks, which are changing the style and service attitude of medical staff associated with building a green - clean - beautiful working environment towards patient satisfaction; strengthening training to improve professional qualifications for medical staff and doctors; constantly renovating and upgrading increasingly modern facilities, applying advanced management models towards autonomy, associated with increasing the application of information technology in hospital management and operation..., thereby creating prestige with patients, the number of patients coming to the hospital for examination and treatment is increasing.

Over the years, every cadre, medical staff and doctor in the province has always strived to fulfill medical ethics, constantly study, improve their professional qualifications, and save the lives of many patients, including many cases in critical situations. The sector has also launched many emulation movements to implement Uncle Ho's teachings in conjunction with implementing medical ethics, developing technical services to improve hospital quality; building green - clean - beautiful - safe hospitals... Thanks to that, it has created a strong and profound change in the awareness of the entire sector. Medical staff have performed well in communicating and behaving with patients, caring, sharing, and encouraging patients as if they were their own relatives. The sector also regularly inspects, supervises, promptly rewards, sets examples of advanced models, and strictly reminds and criticizes cases that cause trouble and negativity in medical examination and treatment. Mistakes at medical facilities have been gradually eliminated, professional responsibility and love for patients have been increasingly enhanced.

Create conditions for people to access the best medical services

Synchronous infrastructure and high-quality human resources are important foundations for the health sector to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment. The sector has proposed many solutions to meet the increasing needs of the people. In particular, many new, high-tech, specialized techniques have been successfully deployed by medical examination and treatment units and facilities in the area.

In addition, the sector has also constantly innovated training and fostering; focusing on specialized training for clinical specialties and some other specialties according to the needs and development orientation of the units. Prioritizing contract training to transfer technical packages, training to improve professional practice skills in teams; mobilizing and flexibly using high-quality human resources, overcoming difficulties for the grassroots level. Along with that, the grassroots health system continues to be consolidated and improved, creating favorable conditions for people to access health services.

Dr. Nguyen Ba Can, Acting Director of the Department of Health, said: Keeping in mind Uncle Ho's teachings, in recent years, the health sector has continuously developed a system of synchronous and modern medical facilities and equipment in parallel with building a high-quality human resource team to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment for the people. Medical facilities in the area continue to maintain and synchronously implement solutions to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment services towards people's satisfaction; actively implement solutions to promote the application of information technology, digital transformation in management and medical examination and treatment activities; strengthen the application of science and technology, apply new techniques, high techniques to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment...

The attention to investment in facilities, medical equipment and human resources has helped people not only in urban areas but also in remote, isolated and extremely disadvantaged areas to access quality medical services and advanced techniques in health care without having to spend money on travel, reducing the burden on upper-level hospitals. Currently, the whole province has 37 hospital beds per 10,000 people, the number of doctors is 11.7 per 10,000 people (among the top in the country); the work of disease prevention and control and health target programs have been focused on by the industry, ensuring progress and effectiveness. This result has affirmed the capacity of medical facilities and the trust of patients in the team of doctors and nurses in the province.

Medicine is a noble profession that is honored by the whole society. Proud of its glorious tradition, deeply aware of the great responsibility and mission that Uncle Ho taught, the Party and the People entrusted, every cadre, civil servant, employee and worker in the entire health sector always remembers Uncle Ho's teaching "A good doctor must be like a mother". From there, we constantly strive to improve our morality, train our talents, and continue to build a modern health system step by step, meeting the needs of protecting, caring for and improving people's health.

Article and photos: To Ha

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