Improving the capacity of medical stations after merger
According to Associate Professor, Doctor, Doctor Nguyen Anh Dung, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, the new Ho Chi Minh City health system after the merger includes 164 hospitals (14 ministerial hospitals, 32 general hospitals, 28 specialized hospitals, 90 non-public hospitals), 38 medical centers (17 medical centers with beds and 21 medical centers without beds); 168 medical stations, 296 medical points; 11 centers without beds; 110 social protection centers, 15,611 private pharmaceutical businesses and pharmacies and more than 10,000 private clinics.
In the coming time, the city's health sector will reorganize the system of health centers and health stations to improve the capacity of health stations after the merger, standardize output quality and expand the coverage of primary health services; build a mechanism to attract people to health stations. Advise the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to change the name of the hospital to match the name of the new administrative unit after the arrangement; merge specialized health centers (3 disease control centers, 3 medical assessment centers and 3 forensic centers).
In addition, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee will approve the project to merge Saigon General Hospital into Gia Dinh People's Hospital, establish a second facility of Tu Du Hospital in Can Gio... The city's health sector will also continue to expand health check-ups for the elderly and students at medical facilities in areas 2 and 3; convert data on periodic health check-ups to digital. Unify the process of disease control and monitoring in the new Ho Chi Minh City area.
Deploy electronic medical records before September 30
According to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Anh Dung, a key task from now until the end of the year for the city's health sector is to deploy electronic medical records at public hospitals before September 30; create a Big Data platform to serve industry management; connect health data of Ho Chi Minh City residents with the national population database and the VNeID platform (according to the Ministry of Health's roadmap) and complete electronic prescriptions at hospitals before October 1, 2025.
The city's health sector will also focus on expanding the network of satellite emergency stations, especially in areas 2 and 3; training first aid skills for the community; applying digital maps and AI to emergency coordination, shortening the time to reach patients; focusing on developing specialized medical services for the Con Dao special zone; reviewing and speeding up the progress of medical projects in the new Ho Chi Minh City area such as: inaugurating the Cu Chi Regional General Hospital (the 3rd gateway hospital) to celebrate National Day September 2; speeding up the progress of projects of the 115 Emergency Center, Facility 2, Blood Bank, Testing Calibration Center and reviewing medical projects that are still stuck ( Binh Duong General Hospital, Gia Dinh People's Hospital, Trung Vuong Hospital, etc.).
At the same time, deploy centralized drug procurement for grassroots health care; organize job fairs for doctors who have completed practical training programs; innovate operating methods and promote administrative reform and effectively deploy the operations of inspection and legal departments.
At the conference, Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, said that in the first 6 months of the year, the number of outpatient examinations and treatments in Ho Chi Minh City (old) was more than 22 million, an increase of 10.5% compared to 2024; the number of inpatient treatments was more than 1 million (an increase of 9.9% compared to the same period in 2024).
In 2024, Ho Chi Minh City inspected and evaluated the quality of 140 hospitals, with the following results:
Top 10 hospitals in terms of evaluation results : Binh Dan Hospital, Gia Dinh People's Hospital, Tam Anh General Hospital, City Children's Hospital, Hung Vuong Hospital, Children's Hospital 1, People's Hospital 115, Thu Duc City, Tropical Diseases Hospital and Oncology Hospital.
10 hospitals with the lowest rating : Cao Thang Eye Hospital, District 10 Medical Center, Saigon Maxillofacial Hospital, STO Phuong Dong Hospital, District 3 Medical Center, Paris Cosmetic Maxillofacial Hospital, JK Japan - Korea Cosmetic Surgery Hospital, District 5 Medical Center, Gaya Vietnam - Korea Hospital and Ky Hoa Medika Cosmetic Hospital.
Early organization of conference to implement Resolution 57 of the health sector
Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Phuoc Loc, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, acknowledged the results that the Ho Chi Minh City health sector has achieved in the first 6 months of the year and agreed with the tasks for the last 6 months of the year of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health. He assessed that the city's health sector has done a lot of work with high labor intensity, great pressure..., contributing greatly to the city's socio-economic development, and above all, serving the people.
According to comrade Nguyen Phuoc Loc, Ho Chi Minh City has just merged and consolidated the two provinces of Binh Duong and Ba Ria - Vung Tau, so it is necessary to promptly amend, supplement and issue new contents of principles in the directive, which are regulations, rules and procedures to build a synchronous, modern and effective health system. The health sector needs to increase its forces at gateway hospitals; coordinate with the education and training sector in implementing school medicine to prevent early and forecast epidemic prevention activities related to children.
It is necessary to have hospital management regulations, orient hospitals towards spearhead and specialized areas... for comprehensive management. In addition, it is necessary to advise competent authorities to issue regulations on response and drills when there is a disaster related to epidemics and issue responses on inter-hospital emergency care when there is another disaster. This is a regulation of the city and must be regularly practiced, Comrade Nguyen Phuoc Loc emphasized.
At the same time, we hope that all staff in the health sector will continue to promote the spirit of solidarity and unity to achieve many new victories and new results.
Comrade Nguyen Phuoc Loc also suggested that next August, the Department of Health organize a conference for the health sector to participate in implementing Resolution 57 on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation. "We organize the conference first to discuss the plan, then evaluate and inspire and motivate the health sector to gradually move towards the standard of becoming a regional specialized medical center," said Comrade Nguyen Phuoc Loc.
Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/xay-dung-he-thong-y-te-dong-bo-hien-dai-va-hieu-qua-post803107.html
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