To make Ho Chi Minh City become the ASEAN regional healthcare center

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Phan Van Mai, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, acknowledged and praised the tireless efforts of the city's health system and medical staff for the cause of taking care of people's health.

According to the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, in order to fulfill the role of a healthcare center in the southern region, the city's leaders and the city's health sector have been focusing on consolidating, developing and improving the quality of operations; combining the development of Eastern and Western medicine; training and developing specialized human resources, aiming at developing high-tech and specialized skills...

Để TP.HCM trở thành Trung tâm chăm sóc sức khỏe khu vực ASEAN - Ảnh 1. — Mr. Phan Van Mai acknowledged and commended the tireless efforts of the team of doctors and medical staff.

"The Resolution of the 11th Congress of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and Resolution 31 of the Politburo on the orientation and tasks for the city's development in the coming time have identified the priority of building an advanced and modern city health system, applying high technology, developing a number of fields to approach the world's advanced level, aiming to become the ASEAN regional health care center," Mr. Phan Van Mai emphasized.

The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee outlined 6 key areas that city leaders and the health sector need to focus on to develop specialized healthcare in the southern region:

Firstly, Ho Chi Minh City focuses on investing in completing the health care system according to the plan, especially specialized hospitals.

Second, train sufficient human resources in quantity, ensuring quality of service in a specialized direction.

Third, deploy the city's data strategy, focusing on developing health data connectivity towards smart health development.

Fourth, issue policies to develop research and development activities in microbiological technology.

Fifth, perfect the regional health network system in diagnosis, treatment, human resource training and other mechanisms, especially specialized mechanisms.

Sixth, further improve the quality of state management of health to create an administrative legal framework, aiming to develop international-level health care centers in a specialized direction.

Examination and treatment at Children's Hospital 1

Mr. Phan Van Mai, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee

Ho Chi Minh City is proud of its achievements in specialized healthcare with many research and application activities. The city's leaders would like to express their gratitude to the medical facilities, professors, doctors, and medical staff who have been bold in pioneering and researching so that we can develop and achieve achievements in taking care of people's health.

Focus on developing medical tourism

Associate Professor, Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, brought to the conference lessons learned from countries in the ASEAN region to attract a large number of tourists for medical examination and treatment. This is a group of solutions for Ho Chi Minh City to soon become a healthcare center in the ASEAN region.

Accordingly, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia are the three countries voted as the leading destinations for medical examination and treatment in the region.

Lessons learned from these three countries are to focus on training high-quality medical human resources; developing modern infrastructure; constantly developing specialized medical techniques; developing medical tourism, combining modern medicine and traditional medicine...

According to Professor, Dr. Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health, Ho Chi Minh City is a bright spot in the country in terms of healthcare work.

The Deputy Minister of Health hopes that the Ho Chi Minh City health sector will continue to pay attention to and increase the attraction of resources, invest in developing modern medical facilities commensurate with the requirements of specialized medical development; attract international visitors to Ho Chi Minh City to combine relaxation and medical examination and treatment.

In addition, Ho Chi Minh City needs to pay attention to the quality of human resources, professional training for medical staff and preferential policies so that doctors and medical staff can work with peace of mind and take care of people's health.

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