Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, the Minister of Health, emphasized that at the conference on strengthening the hospital overload reduction plan in the North, organized by the Ministry of Health yesterday 24.7 in Hanoi.
The modern machinery system at Phu Tho General Hospital meets the requirements of a satellite hospital - Photo: Phu Tho General Hospital
According to the report, after 46 years of implementation of the project, 46 subordinate hospitals in 38 provinces were transferred technology from the upper level hospital for 5 specialties - cardiology, orthopedics, obstetrics, pediatrics and tumors. . With a budget of more than 1.7 trillion dong, some satellite hospitals now have mastered the high medical technology to help patients access and use in lower level hospitals. As General Hospital of Phu Tho province, Bac Ninh hospital has implemented the technology of cancer treatment; Ninh Thuan Hospital has completed brain injury surgery; BV - Quang Ninh Children's Hospital has performed in vitro fertilization ...
"Most of the satellite hospitals have reduced the rate of referral patients with the techniques being delivered. The average reduction is 3-5 times, even higher, depending on the service package. For example, with the transfusion technique in the brain transferred by Viet Duc Hospital, the referral rate of Ha Giang Hospital from 19% previously only 1%; In Thai Binh, from 50% of transits will reduce to 0%, "said Luong Ngoc Khue, director of the Department of Management, Ministry of Health.
According to Tran Quy Tuong, Deputy Director of the Department of Management and Treatment, some satellite hospitals also have policies to treat good doctors to ensure the effective reception of high-tech transfer. At Phu Tho General Hospital, 300 million VND is donated to the boarding doctor for receiving work; 900 million VND for doctorate. The kidney transplant and treatment of many difficult diseases such as spinal disease, brain skull, cancer; Heart.
However, the Ministry of Health admitted that the overload at the hospital is still quite tense. Many satellite hospitals have not enough human resources, facilities and equipment to receive high technology transfer. Currently, 8 out of 28 provinces and cities in the North do not have satellite hospitals in Hung Yen, Ha Nam, Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang, Yen Bai, Lang Son, Lai Chau and Son La.Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien requested in the coming time, the Nuclear Administration should drastically deploy the development of base station satellite and proposed the provincial People's Committee to facilitate the provincial hospital to participate in satellite BV .