This is the sharing of Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung at the visit and working session with officers, employees and workers of Viet Tri Mental Rehabilitation Nursing Center on the morning of December 12.
Also attending were leaders of the following units: Department of Social Protection, Department of Children, Department of Labor Safety, Department of Planning and Finance, Ministry Office, Vietnam Children's Fund, Construction Investment Project Management Board, Dan Tri Newspaper.
At the Center, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung and the delegation directly visited a number of care departments, rehabilitation areas, physical therapy areas and gave gifts and encouragement to the subjects being cared for and nurtured here.
Working with the Center, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung emphasized his special interest in the work that the Center has been doing over the years. At the same time, he affirmed that this is a special task, requiring patience, dedication and responsibility in caring for mentally ill people from the staff.
Minister Dao Ngoc Dung recalled witnessing people with mental illnesses, mostly war-related, living in difficult conditions, while medical staff were extremely limited.
"Those memories make me understand more clearly the hardships that the officers and employees at the Center are facing...", he said.
“In the context of only having nearly 60 staff members, but having to take care of more than 500 mental patients, it is a very quiet and heavy job. A family with a mentally ill person is hard enough, let alone each staff member here has to take care of 10 people at the same time. If you do not love the job and do not do it with all your heart, you cannot undertake this special job, no matter how good the regime is,” the Minister shared.
In addition, the Center always maintains a green, clean, and beautiful campus; effectively combines patient care with occupational therapy. This is a model that needs to be maintained, promoted, and expanded in the future.
Minister Dao Ngoc Dung said: In the coming time, the Viet Tri Mental Rehabilitation Nursing Center will be transferred to the Ministry of Health . Therefore, the general spirit is to maintain the status quo, ensuring the rights and working conditions for staff. In particular, it is necessary to perform better the task of caring for and rehabilitating mental patients.
He suggested that the Center focus on adding human resources and creating conditions for staff to continue improving their professional qualifications.
At the meeting, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung assigned the Department of Social Protection to review all policies and regimes, especially policies for heavy and toxic work that the Center's staff are performing.
Regarding the Project on investment in facilities and equipment to meet the needs, functions and assigned tasks of the Center in the direction of a central-level psychiatric nursing and rehabilitation model, the Minister of the Ministry's Construction Investment Project Management Board coordinated with the Center to promptly start the Viet Tri Mental Rehabilitation Nursing Center project.
And complete the items within two years with the spirit of doing it thoroughly, not wasting State resources. "This is not only a construction project but also a work of conscience and responsibility," Mr. Dung emphasized.
Viet Tri Mental Rehabilitation Nursing Center is a public service unit under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. The center has the function of organizing management, medical examination, treatment, care, nurturing, and rehabilitation for people with mental illness, autistic children, and people with mental disorders according to the provisions of law; providing public service on social assistance according to the provisions of law.
Doctor Luong Ngoc Cuong, Director of Viet Tri Mental Rehabilitation Nursing Center, said: The unit currently has 59 staff members managing, caring for and rehabilitating nearly 500 patients.
In 2024 alone, the unit received 5 patients receiving social protection benefits (including 1 re-admission case) and 300 patients receiving rotational treatment.
Over the years, the Center has identified the management, treatment, care and rehabilitation of patients as its core political tasks. The unit's leaders always emphasize improving the service spirit and professional skills of the staff to better meet the needs of patients and their families.
In particular, the Center focuses on food hygiene and safety. Patients are well-nourished, ensuring stable health, which contributes significantly to the treatment and recovery process. In addition, patients are also instructed on personal hygiene, a clean environment, and provided with all essential living items.
By 2024, the Center will maintain about 80% of stable patients participating in occupational therapy and rehabilitation in many forms, the remaining 20% will receive simple motor rehabilitation in the management area.
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