On the morning of June 17, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Medical Association organized a Conference to evaluate the effectiveness and orientation of specialized medical development in Ho Chi Minh City.
Attending the event were comrades: Nguyen Van Nen, Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Phan Van Mai, Party Central Committee member, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Nguyen Phuoc Loc, Head of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee's Organization Board; Duong Anh Duc, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee... On the side of the Ministry of Health, there was Prof. Dr. Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health.
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Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen viewed an exhibition on the city's medical achievements at the conference. Photo: VIET DUNG |
6 key tasks
Speaking at the conference, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai said that the city not only takes on the task of taking care of the health of local people but also receives and treats millions of patients from localities across the country and internationally.
In 2022, the number of inpatient and outpatient treatments in Ho Chi Minh City will reach 35.3 million, accounting for 22.8% of the total number of patients nationwide. The city has 22 hospitals that are the final line participating in professional cooperation and providing guidance to the southern provinces. At the same time, the city is also an important hub for international cooperation and exchange in healthcare.
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Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai speaks at the Conference on Evaluation of Effectiveness and Orientation for Development of Specialized Healthcare in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: VIET DUNG |
According to the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, in order to assume the role of a healthcare center in the Southern region, Ho Chi Minh City has been focusing on consolidating, developing and improving the quality of the grassroots healthcare network, focusing on managing and caring for non-communicable diseases; deploying health stations operating according to the principles of family medicine, developing technical expertise at health stations; combining the development of Eastern and Western medicine in examination and treatment.
In addition, focus on improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, training specialized human resources for general and specialized hospitals towards developing high-tech medicine, developing in-depth to meet the needs of patients at home and abroad...
"The leaders of Ho Chi Minh City respect and express gratitude to the team of professors, doctors, and medical staff who have boldly pioneered and researched so that the city's medical sector can achieve many achievements as it does today," emphasized comrade Phan Van Mai.
In order for Ho Chi Minh City to soon become the ASEAN regional healthcare center, according to comrade Phan Van Mai, the city will focus on implementing 6 key tasks such as:
Invest in completing the health care system according to the plan, especially specialized hospitals; have policies to encourage investment in hospitals and policies on private investment and foreign investment; focus on completing policies on developing health services and medical tourism; continue to promote and have policies to support the construction of hospitals according to international standards and international rankings.
Ho Chi Minh City will focus on training sufficient human resources, ensuring quality of service in an in-depth direction; recommending the Ministry of Health to pay attention to standardizing training quality programs and having solutions to support improving the quality of medical human resource training in the area; promoting international cooperation in medical human resource training.
In addition, focus on implementing the city's data strategy, focusing on developing medical data connections towards developing smart healthcare.
Issue policies on research and development activities, development of microbiological technology; encourage start-up activities in the medical field, especially high-tech medical, and the city is completing the project of pharmaceutical and microbiological industrial parks as well as the medical innovation center.
The City continues to propose to the Ministry of Health and relevant central and local agencies to complete the regional health network system in diagnosis, treatment, human resource training and other mechanisms, especially specialized health care.
Focus on perfecting and further improving the quality of state management of health, creating an administrative legal framework to develop international-level health care centers in a specialized direction.
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Delegates attending the conference. Photo: VIET DUNG |
Lots of effort but lack of mechanism
According to Associate Professor, Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, in order for the city to soon become a healthcare center of the ASEAN region, the city's health sector has recently studied the lessons learned from countries in the region, thereby concluding that it is necessary to soon form a center for training high-quality medical human resources; develop modern infrastructure, and deploy a high-tech medical zone following the hospital-school model.
In addition, develop specialized techniques to meet the disease model and health care needs of the people; build a network of specialized care from specialized to primary health care; provide a full range of quality health care services to meet the diverse needs of the people; strive to make Ho Chi Minh City a medical tourism destination, promote the combination of modern medicine and traditional medicine; promote research and development activities and innovation activities in the health sector.
However, the reality is that the communication language of medical staff in public hospitals has not met the needs of medical examination and treatment for foreigners; the strengths of the institute model in research and development activities, in promoting scientific research results, applying new techniques and technologies, etc. have not been promoted, causing the world to lack information about the development of the city's health sector.
Leaders of leading hospitals have not really paid due attention to research and proactively participated in the ranking of leading specialized hospitals in the region and the world; medical tourism has not been given due attention and development is still fragmented.
"The efforts of the city's medical staff are not lacking, but the effectiveness will be limited if there are no mechanisms and policies," Associate Professor, Dr. Tang Chi Thuong commented.
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Delegates at the conference. Photo: VIET DUNG |
Faced with this situation, the Department of Health recommends that the Ministry of Health and Ho Chi Minh City should soon put the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment QH15 into practice; Ho Chi Minh City should soon issue a strategy on developing medical tourism; have mechanisms and policies to attract prestigious hospitals in the world to open facilities in Ho Chi Minh City; have mechanisms and policies to mobilize social resources to participate in the development of specialized healthcare; have mechanisms and policies to attract prestigious medical universities in the world to coordinate with domestic medical schools to train doctors according to international standards.
In addition, there are mechanisms and policies to attract high-quality medical human resources from within and outside the country to participate in health care activities in the city; there are mechanisms and policies to promote the development of an innovative ecosystem in the health sector, contributing to promoting digital transformation, improving management efficiency and the quality of health care services.
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Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City and delegates at the Conference. Photo: VIET DUNG |
Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan: Ho Chi Minh City needs to continue investing in developing modern medical facilities.
Ho Chi Minh City is the leading locality in the country in developing technical expertise, performing many difficult techniques, treating many serious diseases, accessing and mastering most of the world's advanced medical techniques...
In the coming time, to meet the increasingly high and diverse health care needs of the people of the city as well as the southern provinces, contributing to socio-economic development, the leaders of Ho Chi Minh City need to continue to pay attention to and direct health care work, including: continuing to invest in developing modern, high-quality medical facilities on par with the region, aiming to become a specialized medical center of the Southeast Asian region through investment commensurate with the needs of specialized medical development. In addition, the city needs to have its own policy mechanism, possibly in the form of a pilot, especially the financial mechanism, the price mechanism for medical examination and treatment services in the direction of calculating correctly and sufficiently, ensuring the operation of the hospital and the development of technical expertise.
At the same time, implementing a number of important projects in the health sector such as: developing the pharmaceutical industry, ensuring food safety, socialization, mobilizing private health resources, applying information technology and digital transformation in the health sector, and promoting out-of-hospital emergency care.
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