Striving to become a hospital on par with the region and the world

On December 12, in Hue City, Hue Central Hospital held a ceremony to celebrate its 130th founding anniversary. Attending were members of the Party Central Committee: Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan; Secretary of the Thua Thien Hue Provincial Party Committee Le Truong Luu.

Hue Central Hospital is the first Western medicine hospital in Vietnam, established in 1894 by decree of King Thanh Thai. In 1944, it was officially named Hue Central Hospital. To date, it has completed 130 years of construction and development.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan presented the First Class Labor Medal to Professor Pham Nhu Hiep.

After 130 years of construction and development, the Hospital has a team of highly qualified, dedicated and ethical staff, with 9 People's Doctors, 143 Excellent Doctors, nearly 200 Professors, Associate Professors, Doctors, BSCKII and over 1,500 other University and Postgraduate staff. The Hospital is a prestigious practice facility of Universities and Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy nationwide, a center for specialized training, guidance and technology transfer to many lower-level hospitals. Many Professors, Doctors, Level II Specialists, and Resident Doctors have been trained and matured here to serve all over the country.

The hospital has established 15 centers, 109 clinical and paraclinical departments, 14 functional rooms, is a practical training facility of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and is also a place to welcome many foreign doctors to research and study. After 130 years, Hue Central Hospital has become a trusted address for high-quality care and treatment. Every year, there are over 800,000 patients for medical examination, 180,000 inpatients, and up to 51,000 surgeries.

The unit has achieved great achievements in the fields of organ transplantation (such as heart transplantation with 14 successful cases, kidney transplantation with over 2,000 successful cases, stem cell transplantation, corneal transplantation); hundreds of new techniques have been updated and implemented, the successful treatment of difficult cases always reaches a high rate nationwide. Especially in recent years, the hospital has continuously made many breakthroughs in the fields of high-tech, specialized treatment, becoming one of the major centers to successfully perform the triple organ transplantation "heart, liver, kidney", 100% successful cross-Vietnam heart transplantation...

Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan commended and congratulated the great achievements of the leadership, staff, civil servants and employees of Hue Central Hospital over the years.

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan spoke at the ceremony.

In order to continuously improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, striving to become a hospital on par with the region and the world, Minister Dao Hong Lan requested Hue Central Hospital to focus on the following issues: Implementing Resolution 54 of the Politburo on building and developing Thua Thien Hue province to 2030 with a vision to 2045 as a specialized medical center of the region. Resolution 8 on Building Thua Thien Hue to be worthy of being one of the centers of the Southeast Asian region in the period of 2021 - 2025 with a vision to 2030.

On November 30, 2024, the 15th National Assembly approved and issued Resolution 175 on the establishment of Hue City under the Central Government, which is placing increasingly high demands on the city's health sector, including the contribution of Hue Central Hospital in health care for the people of Hue City... Developing advanced medical techniques, improving the quality of medical examination and treatment in all aspects of professional qualifications, modern equipment, service attitude, communication skills. Strengthening the mobilization and rational and effective use of investment resources. In addition, it is necessary to build a team of Hue Central Hospital staff with good medical ethics, deep medical theory and good medical skills, for the health of the people. Strengthening human resource training, improving the quality of life of medical staff, promoting passion, professional development and peace of mind in serving patients of hospital medical staff. Focus on implementing project programs to improve the quality of hospital facilities, on that basis focus on developing information technology infrastructure, digital transformation in the medical field. Build software to serve administrative management and operations, towards smart hospitals for the people.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and Minister Dao Hong Lan presented gifts to heart transplant patients and the Cardiovascular Center, Hue Central Hospital.

At the same time, the unit must promote administrative reform, innovation, and improvement of administrative processes and procedures in all areas of operation. Improve the quality of hospital management, develop and perfect the unit's operating regulations, including medical examination and treatment management, financial management, human resource management, and administrative management. Improve the implementation of patient satisfaction assessment criteria according to the criteria issued by the Ministry of Health. In addition, the hospital must promote international cooperation and technology transfer. Strengthen medical support and health care between the hospital and other countries and hospitals in the region. In particular, actively participate in contributing to the process of perfecting and developing policies of the health sector...

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan hopes that the entire team of doctors, medical staff and workers of Hue Central Hospital, promoting the fine tradition of 130 years of construction and growth with the achievements that have been achieved, will strive to overcome all difficulties and challenges, unite, unite, join hands and strive to excellently complete the tasks assigned by the Party, State, People and Ministry of Health, contributing to the successful implementation of the task of caring for and protecting people's health in the new situation.

After 130 years of construction and development, Hue Central Hospital has been awarded by the Party and State with the title of Hero of Labor in the renovation period, the First Class Independence Medal (2nd time) and many other noble titles. Notably, in 2024, the Hospital is one of 10 units honored in the program "Glory of Vietnam".

Leaders of Thua Thien Hue province presented flowers to congratulate the Board of Directors of Hue Central Hospital.

Prof. Dr. Pham Nhu Hiep, Director of Hue Central Hospital shared: The hospital has identified short-term and long-term goals, needs to take appropriate steps and continue to make continuous efforts to achieve the goal: Ensuring people have the right to enjoy high-quality, safe and effective health care services; being treated equally in health care as well as ensuring the satisfaction of patients and relatives when accessing and using services...

“All hospital staff and employees are determined to build Hue Central Hospital into a Center of Advanced Medicine, a Center for training high-quality medical human resources, aiming to meet the standards of hospitals in Southeast Asia and internationally according to Resolution No. 54 of the Politburo. Develop the hospital into one of the 6 public hospitals in Vietnam at international standards according to the health network planning for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050 approved by the Government.” - Prof. Dr. Pham Nhu Hiep affirmed./.

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