An Giang aims for specialized healthcare

An Giang's health sector is accelerating investment in provincial hospitals, developing new and specialized techniques, rearranging medical facilities, and gradually forming regional medical centers to ensure social security for all classes of people.

A heart surgery at An Giang Cardiovascular Hospital. Photo: HANH CHAU

A wide range of high quality medical services

Kien Giang General Hospital has been built with a new, spacious facility, with quite complete and modern medical equipment. The medical staff is constantly improving in quantity and quality. The hospital has now performed 100% of the techniques belonging to the provincial hospital division and more than 90% of the technical division of the central hospital. Many advanced techniques have been performed, such as: open heart surgery, cardiovascular intervention, radiotherapy, microvascular neurosurgery, knee replacement, endoscopic surgery of the digestive system, thyroid gland... The hospital is currently a satellite hospital of Cho Ray Hospital, Orthopedic Trauma Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital; has been cooperating with many international organizations, such as: L'AAPEL, Project, Children's heart, Smile...

Kien Giang General Hospital cooperates with Cho Ray Hospital to send a team of experts and experienced doctors to directly support training and transfer many specialized techniques in disease treatment. Accompanying Cho Ray Hospital to provide medical support to Phu Quoc Medical Center, Dr. Truong Cong Thanh - Director of Kien Giang General Hospital proposed the Department of Health to consider approving a new technical list, creating a legal basis for the center to expand its scope of services. Cho Ray Hospital organizes training courses for staff, improves capacity and ensures the ability to perform basic technical services. Kien Giang General Hospital is ready to increase human resources, supplement equipment, supplies and transfer support when necessary to help Phu Quoc Medical Center proactively and effectively deploy techniques.

Many techniques that were previously only performed at the central level have now become routine techniques at provincial hospitals, including medical centers. Recently, doctors from Cho Ray Hospital provided professional support and coordinated with doctors from Phu Quoc Medical Center to promptly save the lives of two patients with ischemic stroke by injecting thrombolytic agents, opening a major turning point for Phu Quoc Island's medical care in intensive treatment.

An Giang Cardiovascular Hospital affirms its pioneering position, applying the most advanced medical techniques in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, bringing hope and life to thousands of patients with cardiovascular diseases. “Up to now, the hospital has successfully performed hundreds of open heart surgeries, with a high success rate, especially for heart valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting. Nearly 1,000 cases of pacemaker implantation, with a 100% success rate; mastering coronary intervention with more than 2,000 successful coronary intervention cases, helping patients avoid dangerous complications of myocardial infarction…”, said Dr. Mai Pham Trung Hieu - Deputy Director of An Giang Cardiovascular Hospital.

Investing in specialized healthcare

According to Dr. Tran Quang Hien - Director of the Department of Health, in the coming time, the health sector will fundamentally innovate its medical thinking, taking people's health as the center, strongly shifting from the thinking of "treating diseases as the main thing" to the thinking of "taking disease prevention as the key, preventive medicine and primary health care as the foundation". This is a revolutionary change in the approach to health policy. Not only stopping at orientation, the health sector concretizes it by actions of strong investment in primary health care, strengthening forecasting capacity, early detection and early medical intervention in the community; along with breakthroughs in financial mechanisms, ensuring health security for all people; organizing free periodic health check-ups for all people, prioritizing vulnerable groups; exempting basic hospital fees.

The health sector has focused and focused investment in primary health care, ensuring that 100% of commune-level health stations have standard facilities, adequate medical equipment, and are modernized to meet the requirements of primary health care. Each commune and ward needs to have at least 4-5 general practitioners and specialists, and strengthen training and rotation of upper-level doctors to support lower-level doctors. Ensure that the rate of primary medical examination and treatment at the grassroots level reaches at least 20-25% of the total number of medical examinations in the province. Encourage private health care to develop strongly in the direction of public-private cooperation, especially in the field of high technology and intensive treatment.

The Department of Health recommends that the province has a policy to attract medical talent; comprehensively transform digital health through the deployment of electronic health records for all people before 2026; complete the hospital - health station - health insurance - residential data platform. Build a smart health operation center that integrates epidemic warnings, monitors the quality of medical examination and treatment, and coordinates emergency care across lines. Promote remote medical examination and treatment, artificial intelligence to support diagnosis, and robots to support surgery and patient care.

HANH CHAU

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