Many high technologies were successfully transferred from Project 1816

Lately, to monitor the province’s implementation of Project 1816, the Ministry of Health’s working delegation led by Mr. Cao Hung Thai, Deputy Director of Department of Medical Exam and Treatment Management at the Ministry of Health had a working session with Dong Nai Thong Nhat General Hospital, Trang Bom District Health Center, Dong Nai Children’s Hospital and Dong Nai General Hospital. At the working session with the mission, units reported on their achievements, difficulties and weaknesses during the implementation of the province. The highlight shows that the implementation of the Project has gradually modernized the health sector of Dong Nai province and improved medical examination and treatment services.

According to the report by Dong Nai General Hospital, General Surgery Department, Dong Nai General Hospital is a satellite unit of the Department of Gastroenterology at Cho Ray Hospital. In the past years, thanks to the implementation of more modern techniques from the satellite hospital project, the number of cases that need to be transferred every year has decreased, with 12 cases of patients being transferred every year in serious medical conditions such as heart failure, kidney failure, and so on.

Recently, the delegation of Cho Ray Hospital has also worked with Dong Nai General Hospital on how to connect with the implementation of the satellite hospital project. After listening to Dong Nai General Hospital give a general report on the development of human resources, equipment, and so on. The mission highly appreciated the existing resources of Dong Nai General Hospital with a lot of advantages compared to those of regional hospitals such as facilities, modern medical equipment, abundant, experienced, and highly specialized human resources, and a caring and facilitating Board of Directors. These advantages will help Dong Nai General Hospital to receive and implement the contents effectively in the implementation of Project 1816 and supervise the implementation of the satellite hospital project and soon turn Dong Nai General Hospital into a regional respiratory center in the coming time.

At Thong Nhat Dong Nai General Hospital, thanks to the implementation of Project 1816 the effective implementation of the satellite hospital project of higher-level hospitals, in recent years Thong Nhat General Hospital has received support from higher-level hospitals in Ho Chi Minh city such as Cho Ray hospital, Tu Du hospital, and Orthopedic Trauma hospital. Accordingly, the hospital has implemented more modern techniques. The highlight is the Cardiovascular Intervention Center of Dong Nai Thong Nhat General Hospital. Bringing the center into operation, up to now about 3,000 coronary intervention cases have been taken. The rate of hospital transfer cases also decreases significantly year by year. According to the hospital’s report, in 2014 the rate of patients with cardiovascular diseases from Dong Nai Thong Nhat General Hospital transferred to higher-level hospitals was 38%. In terms of open-heart surgery techniques, the hospital has performed 5 cases, including 1 emergency surgery. The open heart surgery still needs support from the doctors of Cho Ray Hospital.

In addition to receiving high and modern technologies transferred from higher-level hospitals, in recent years thanks to the implementation of Project 1816 provincial-level hospitals have been able to increase their human resources to support lower-level hospitals

In addition to receiving high and modern technologies from higher-level hospitals, in recent years thanks to the implementation of Project 1816, provincial hospitals have strengthened their human resources to support lower-level hospitals and transfer technologies. In the spirit of all-heart support, the quality of examination and treatment activities has been increasingly improved and the quality of services has also been able to meet people’s needs.

According to Deputy Director of Dong Nai Department of Health Phan Huy Anh Vu, Project 1816 is both an opportunity and a condition for hospitals at provincial to regional and district levels to develop their techniques, improve their positions and create conditions so that locals can enjoy high technology locally. The implementation of the project has really enhanced the capacity of medical examination and treatment for satellite hospitals and training, technology transfer, facilities improvement, and equipment upgrading have been able to help patients to gain an access to high-quality medical examination and treatment services in satellite hospitals instead of having them transferred to higher-level hospitals.

Duy Minh (An Nhien)