Promote the role of a final hospital, a leading hospital in the ENT system

On the afternoon of 10/10, the Central Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital held a ceremony to celebrate the 55 anniversary of the hospital's founding (1969-2024). Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan attended to celebrate with generations of hospital staff.

55 years ago, on July 14, 1969, Prime minister Goverment Pham Van Dong signed Decision No. 111/CP to establish the Institute of Otolaryngology - the predecessor of today's Central Otolaryngology Hospital. After 55 years of development, from a facility with only 10 beds and a staff of nearly 30 people, the Central Otolaryngology Hospital now has a scale of 320 beds and more than 400 staff. Inheriting and promoting the achievements and contributions of previous generations, the Central Otolaryngology Hospital has continuously developed and always deserves to be the country's final hospital in the field of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery, trusted and highly appreciated by patients.

Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Tuan Canh, Director of the Central Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital spoke at the ceremony.

Medical examination and treatment is always the most important task, the number of patients coming for examination and treatment is constantly increasing. In the past 5 years, overcoming the difficulties after the Covid-19 pandemic, the hospital has always strived to improve the process, regulate medical examination and treatment activities, flexibly arrange early examination rooms, make online appointments, reduce waiting time, and meet the medical examination and treatment needs of the people...

In addition, the hospital cares about the rights of patients, aiming for patient satisfaction with the goal: "Taking patients as the center", placing service quality first. medical top.

Notably, the hospital always researches, develops, updates new, specialized techniques and applies advanced techniques used for the first time in Vietnam. Such as techniques to support the examination, diagnosis and treatment of ear and vestibular diseases, successfully performing surgery on many diseases of the inner ear, cerebellopontine angle, and petrous bone peak. The hospital has applied endoscopic surgery combined with positioning to treat recurrent sinus diseases, cerebrospinal fluid leakage after surgery, sinus tumors invading the skull base, congenital sinus diseases in children such as brain herniation, meningocele with good results. Emergency diseases in the ear, nose and throat such as bleeding, difficulty breathing, infection and trauma have been treated promptly, saving the lives of many seriously ill patients upon admission.

In recent years, the hospital has invested in many devices to help diagnose and restore voice, swallowing, and breathing functions; perform cosmetic surgery for congenital and acquired diseases of the ear, nose, and throat such as hypoplastic auricle, rhinoplasty, airway reconstruction, reconstruction of head, face, and neck defects, especially applying flap techniques in late-stage cancer surgery... Many devices serve the early diagnosis of cancer, synchronous implementation of cancer treatment methods including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and palliative treatment... thereby being able to receive and treat all cancers in the ear, nose, and throat, even in the late stages that previously had to be transferred to specialized cancer treatment facilities.

Doctors at the Central Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital perform endoscopic sinus surgery using a navigation system.

The Surgical Area has 10 modern operating rooms with increasing capacity, peaking at 90 to 100 surgeries per day. In addition, advanced equipment has been invested in previously such as: 3D positioning machine for endoscopic sinus surgery, modern surgical microscope, 64-slice CT scanner, 1.5 Tesla MRI machine, Elektra accelerator radiotherapy machine...

The Central Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital is the main practice facility of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Ha Noi; cooperate with other medical universities and receive students for internships and practice. The hospital also always focuses on retraining and continuous training to improve the qualifications of ENT specialists nationwide. From 2019 to present, the hospital has sent 92 doctors to transfer 56 techniques to doctors at provincial and regional hospitals such as: Ha Giang, Hung Yen, Hai Duong, Thai Nguyen… on endoscopic sinus surgery, laryngeal microsurgery, emergency care in ENT… contributing to improving professional qualifications, improving the quality of medical examination and treatment at lower-level hospitals, creating favorable conditions for people in medical examination and treatment, reducing the number of patients going to central hospitals.

Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan congratulated the achievements of the team of doctors, medical staff and workers of the Central Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. However, in the coming time, the health sector in general and the ENT sector in particular will face difficulties and challenges; many difficult, rare and strange diseases will appear; the people's demand for high-quality medical examination and treatment will increase; rapid changes in technology and techniques will occur...

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan speaks at the ceremony

In order for the Central ENT Hospital to continue to promote its role as a final-line hospital and a leader in the ENT system, Minister Dao Hong Lan requested the Board of Directors and the hospital staff to effectively implement the health policies and guidelines that have been issued in recent times, especially the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment; Decree No. 96/2023/ND-CP of the Government detailing a number of articles of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment and related guiding Circulars of the Government. Ministry of Health.

The hospital needs to continue to innovate and improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, ensure optimal medical supplies, equipment, and medicines to serve patients, and strive to bring the best experiences to patients when they come to the hospital. Promote specialization and professionalization of medical staff, serving from reception, admission, care, treatment, recovery, and monitoring, and home care after discharge.

At the same time, promote the implementation of the work of directing the lower levels, providing professional support, and transferring techniques to lower levels to gradually improve the capacity and quality of medical examination and treatment of lower-level units, reducing the burden on upper levels. Continue to strengthen international cooperation to exchange expertise, techniques, and apply advanced science and technology in the implementation of new and specialized techniques; research and train medical human resources.

On the other hand, it is necessary to stop applying information technology and digital transformation in implementing medical examination and treatment procedures; cashless payment; remote medical examination and treatment; review and minimize administrative procedures that cause inconvenience to patients.