Medical examination and treatment in Hanoi: Breakthroughs in public health facilities
The Hanoi People's Committee has issued Decision 5369/QD-UBND approving the Project to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment at public health facilities under the Hanoi People's Committee by 2030. The Decision takes effect from January 1, 2025.
The project aims to build and develop an advanced and modern health system in the capital city that is appropriate to the population size and comprehensively meets the needs of protecting, caring for and improving people's health, aiming for quality, efficiency, progress, social equity and international integration.
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Focus on developing and improving the quality of services in some areas to reach the level of advanced countries in the region and the world. Improve the quality of medical examination and treatment and the capacity of the primary health care system, the family medicine examination and treatment network. Develop the public outpatient emergency system.
The city will focus on developing a system of medical examination and treatment facilities with sufficient capacity to provide quality medical services to meet health care needs by region and by assigned levels of medical examination and treatment (initial, basic, and specialized); focusing on investing in infrastructure and equipment.
Specifically, 4 hospitals will be established to assume regional functions (Hanoi Heart Hospital, Hanoi Oncology Hospital, Hanoi Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, and Saint Paul General Hospital).
Develop grade I general hospitals and specialized hospitals to meet the needs of specialized medical examination and treatment; grade II general hospitals to meet the needs of basic medical examination and treatment; general clinics and medical stations to meet the needs of initial medical examination and treatment according to regulations of the Ministry of Health.
In addition, strengthen and develop the external emergency system to meet the emergency needs of people in the city.
Next is to develop a sufficient number of medical human resources, ensuring quality, professional capacity and medical ethics, with a reasonable structure and distribution. Comprehensive digital transformation towards smart healthcare.
The project also sets out specific tasks and solutions to be implemented from now until 2030. That is to review and arrange the city's medical examination and treatment system into 3 levels of medical examination and treatment, with hospitals taking on regional functions. Developing sufficient medical human resources, ensuring quality, professional capacity and medical ethics, with reasonable structure and distribution.
Improve the quality of professional techniques in medical examination and treatment. Develop an outpatient emergency system associated with the development of smart cities.
Comprehensive digital transformation towards smart healthcare by developing information systems and centralized data platforms; applying information technology and digital transformation in medical examination and treatment facilities towards building smart hospitals.
Strengthen international cooperation to meet the requirements of expertise, foreign affairs and international integration in the new situation. Improve the effectiveness of coordination in preventive treatment; communication and health education.
The City People's Committee also assigned specific tasks to departments and branches, in which the Department of Health is the leading unit, primarily responsible for advising the City People's Committee to deploy and implement the Project.
Preside over and coordinate with agencies and units under the Ministry of Health and relevant agencies and units to ensure the development of regional hospitals, regional drug, cosmetic and food testing centers in accordance with the planned network of medical facilities.
Preside, synthesize and periodically report to the city on the implementation progress, advise on solving difficulties and problems arising during the implementation of the Project.
According to statistics, the city has 19 central hospitals with about 10,420 beds; 10 hospitals and medical examination and treatment centers under ministries/sectors and 15 hospitals/institutes under the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defense with about 5,680 beds.
The city has 42 hospitals under the Hanoi Department of Health. The district, county and town levels include 30 medical centers with 55 general clinics and 4 maternity homes. The commune, ward and town levels include 579 medical stations. The total number of employees is about 26,000 people, including over 5,000 doctors.
As of June 2024, there were 15,399 non-public medical and pharmaceutical establishments licensed to operate in the city, including 4,648 medical examination and treatment establishments (23 general hospitals, 21 specialized hospitals with 2,203 beds and over 16,000 employees) and 10,691 pharmaceutical establishments.
The non-public health system has met the increasing demand for medical examination and treatment of the people, while helping to reduce overload at public hospitals.
Pharmaceutical businesses play an important role in providing quality, timely medicines to public and non-public health facilities and to people in the city.
Source: https://baodautu.vn/kham-chua-benh-o-ha-noi-nhung-buoc-dot-pha-trong-co-so-y-te-cong-d227719.html
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