Many doctors quit working at public hospitals in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, the provincial Department of Health reported. According to the department, last year, up to 31 doctors gave up their jobs at Ca Mau’s state-owned hospitals. Most of them moved to private clinics and hospitals. Ca Mau's Department of Health The modest salary at public hospitals was blamed for the main cause of the issue, said the department. Meanwhile, private hospitals often offer much higher salaries. Doctors at state-owned hospitals usually face more pressures and difficulties than those in the private sector, including work pressure and the threat from being attacked by patients’ relatives. Lots of public hospitals lack equipment and human resources, restricting career development opportunities. The department has proposed the government to improve the salary for doctors along with the equitisation of public hospitals. Between 2015 and 2018, 97 doctors stopped working at public … [Read more...] about Dozens of doctors at Ca Mau’s public hospitals resign
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Doctors head towards the private sector
Viet Nam News Many doctors in Việt Nam are preferring to work in private hospitals rather than in public hospitals. This is because they find it nicer to work at the private institutions and the pay is better. This trend is a worry for the country because it causes problems for hospitals that ordinary people need and use when they are sick or injured. Authorities are now thinking of how to change things so that fewer doctors leave the public hospitals. ĐỒNG NAI – More talented and experienced doctors are leaving public hospitals to work in private facilities, raising concerns of a shortage of key doctors in the public sector. Low salaries and poor working conditions were among reasons given by doctors leaving public hospitals. Figures from southern Đồng Nai Province’s Department of Health show that the number of doctors leaving public hospitals for private facilities has increases over the past few years. In 2016, as many … [Read more...] about Doctors head towards the private sector
Hospitals offer flat pay to stop doctors leaving public hospitals to go private
At the latest meeting, the Department assigned Dong Nai General Hospital, Thong Nhat General Hospital and the General Hospital in Long Khanh to become financially self-sufficient and pilot measures to increase its budget in a bid to keep experienced physicians working at hospitals. Deputy Director of Dong Nai General Hospital Dr. Le THi Phuong Tram said of 300 doctors in the hospital, 120 have been working at the hospital for two to five years accounting for 40 percent while 60 have been working for six years accounting for 20 percent. Their average pays are VVD9 million to VND15 million ($387,950 - $ 646,584) per person monthly. Last year, out of as many as 32 doctors quit their job in the hospital to work in the private sector, three of them were deputy department heads and eight had post-graduate degrees. Just three first months of 2019, the hospital managers received resignation letters of six doctors and one of them had post-graduate degree. According to Dr. Tram, young doctors … [Read more...] about Hospitals offer flat pay to stop doctors leaving public hospitals to go private
More doctors leaving public hospitals to go private
More talented and experienced doctors are leaving public hospitals to work in private facilities, raising concerns of a shortage of key doctors in the public sector.– Photo thanhnien.vn ĐỒNG NAI – More talented and experienced doctors are leaving public hospitals to work in private facilities, raising concerns of a shortage of key doctors in the public sector. Low salaries and poor working conditions were among reasons given by doctors leaving public hospitals. Figures from southern Đồng Nai Province’s Department of Health show that the number of doctors leaving public hospitals for private facilities has increases over the past few years. In 2016, as many as 65 doctors quit their jobs in favour of the private sector. The number increased to 98 in 2017 and 102 in 2018. Since early this year, 11 doctors from public hospitals resigned to move to private centres. Dr Lê Thị Phương Trâm, deputy head of … [Read more...] about More doctors leaving public hospitals to go private
Skilled doctors reject work in remote areas
Viet Nam News HÀ GIANG — Doctors have rejected jobs at health centres at commune and ward levels in poor and remote areas in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang after receiving training to improve their capability. Lương Viết Thuần, director of provincial Health Department, reported the trend to a delegate from the Ministry of Health who came to the locality to check on the presence of highly skilled doctors. Thuần said after the doctors finished their training courses, the department issued decisions to send them to work at the health centres. Many of the doctors did not even show up at the department to receive the decision, electing instead to quit their jobs. The province had suffered from the situation for many years and had tried and failed to find workable solutions, he said. Hà Giang was not the only province suffering from the situation. The national health sector also has to face it. Statistics from the … [Read more...] about Skilled doctors reject work in remote areas