Vice President attends 130th anniversary of Vietnam's first Western medicine hospital

On the morning of December 12, Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan attended the ceremony to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the founding of Hue Central Hospital.

At the ceremony, Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan presented the Prime Minister's Certificate of Merit and a commemorative gift to Hue Central Hospital. She also awarded the Labor Order to Professor Pham Nhu Hiep, Director of the hospital, and two collectives of Hue Central Hospital.

On this occasion, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan commended and congratulated the great achievements that have left a strong mark on the leadership, staff, and workers of Hue Central Hospital throughout the years. Minister Dao Hong Lan requested that Hue Central Hospital focus on six issues to continuously improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, striving to become a hospital on par with those in the region and the world.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan presented the Prime Minister's Certificate of Merit and souvenirs to Hue Central Hospital.

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan expressed confidence that the entire team of doctors, medical staff, and workers of Hue Central Hospital, building on the fine traditions of 130 years of development and growth with the achievements already attained, will strive to overcome all difficulties and challenges, unite, work together, and strive to excellently fulfill the tasks assigned by the Party, the State, the People, and the Ministry of Health, contributing to the successful implementation of the task of caring for and protecting the health of the people in the new situation.

Minister of Health Dao Thi Hong Lan spoke at the ceremony.

Prof. Dr. Pham Nhu Hiep - Director of Hue Central Hospital said that the hospital has identified short-term and long-term goals, needs to take appropriate steps and continue to be determined and make continuous efforts to complete the goals.

That is, ensuring that people have the right to enjoy high-quality, safe and effective health care services; to be treated equally in health care as well as ensuring the satisfaction of patients and their 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 the Southeast Asian region and internationally according to Resolution No. 54 of the Politburo.

In particular, develop the hospital to become 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.

It is known that Hue Central Hospital is the first Western hospital in Vietnam, established in 1894 under the decree of King Thanh Thai. In 1944, the hospital was officially named Hue Central Hospital, to date it has been 130 years of construction and has become one of the three largest special-level hospitals in the country.

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

From a French doctor and a few medical staff, after 130 years of development, Hue Central Hospital now has more than 1,800 university and postgraduate staff with 9 people's physicians, 143 excellent physicians, nearly 200 professors, associate professors, doctors...

The hospital has a total area of ​​35.7 hectares (including 2 facilities) with more than 5,000 beds, many newly built and upgraded infrastructure areas, nearly 300 types of modern medical equipment on par with the region and the world.

With nearly 2,000 successful organ transplants, the hospital has become one of the major centers successfully performing the "heart, liver, kidney" trio of organ transplants, putting Vietnam on the world heart transplant map.

Nguyen Vuong

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