INTRODUCTION
Phu Tho Provincial General Hospital, whose first name is Officers Hospital, was established in 1965. Since 2006, the hospital has been renamed Phu Tho Provincial General Hospital.
Phu Tho Provincial general hospital is the highest level hospital in Phu Tho province. It is ranked the first class hospital with 1500 sick-beds with more than 1400 officials among whom there are 420 doctors.
Phu Tho Provincial General Hospital has a total of 42 divisions and departments, centers including 9 functional divisions, 7 sub-clinical departments, 25 clinical departments and 6 centers (Center for Training and Healthcare activity direction, Center for Cardiology, Center forTumour, Center for High Quality Medical examination and treatment, Center for Hematology and Blood Transfusion and Center forAutomatic Test).

Overview picture of the hospital.
Since 2009, the hospital has successfully applied and has been certified ISO 9001-2008qualitystandard. All stages in medical examination and treatment process at the hospital are standardized,professional regulations in emergencies, medical examinations and patient care are taken seriously.
The hospital has been well equipped with modern facilities and machines. The hospital is located on a 2.94 hectare campus with 3 7-storey buildings, 2 11-storey buildings (multi-center building and Center forHigh quality medical examination and treatment).

Well-equipped with modern facilities and machines.
Phu Tho Provincial General Hospital is a satellite hospital ofcentral hospitals namely Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital; Vietnam National Cardiology Institute - Bach Mai Hospital; Vietnam national cancer Hospital (K Hospital),Vietnam national Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vietnam national Hospital of Paediatrics,National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, National Hospital Of Endocrinology, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases. Therefore, the hospital has received support in staff training, expertise transfer from the nuclear hospitals. Up to now, the hospital has carried out 100% of the technical category class I and 46% of the technical category class Special, hospital’s equipment is more and more modern and synchronous. Specifically, the hospital has applied a variety of specialized techniques such as anesthesia &resuscitation, spinal surgery, brain tumour surgery, joint replacement surgery, trauma surgery, open-heart surgery, endoscopicdigestive surgery, endoscopic urologic surgery, diagnostic imaging, pathology, kidney transplant ...

Considerate and professional service.
In addition, strengthening international cooperation is a new step of Phu Tho Provincial General Hospital in training and transfer of specialized techniques to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment toward modernization, professionalism.
The strength of the hospital is the development of cutting-edge specialized major such as tumors, cardiovascular, orthopedic traumas, stroke, reproduction support,hematology and blood transfusion, kidney transplantation, blood filtration - artificial kidney. .
The hospital is constantly promoting administrative reform, management reform, improving morale and attitude when serving patients, management and medical examination and treatment in the model of smart hospital. The hospital is oriented to develop toward specialized multi-center hospitals.
With the motto "Patients are customers, the customersare Benefactors", Phu Tho Provincial General Hospital will surely become a trustworthy leading health care place in Phu Tho province and in North Western provinces.