Viet Nam News Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến, Minister of Health, speaks to Lao động Cuối tuần (Labour Weekend) about measures to improve health examination and treatment quality at hospitals in 2019. In 2018, the Ministry of Health focused on improving health treatment quality at grassroots clinics, especially the 26 communal clinics operating by the principles of family medicine. Please tell us the results of such an effort and your plan to increase the number of clinics working by those principles? Since the beginning of 2018, the healthcare sector had taken concrete actions to make sure grassroots healthcare becomes the foundation and the backbone of the country’s healthcare system, including making major, practical changes in the mechanisms and methods of operation of healthcare services at the communal level. Over the past year, apart from providing the 26 communal clinics with training courses on family medicine and healthcare … [Read more...] about Improve health examination and treatment quality in 2019
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Hepatitis C patients find treatment too expensive
Delegates speak about advantages and disadvantages in the implementation of a pilot project to raise awareness of and screen high-risk populations for hepatitis C in HCM City at a review meeting.–VNS/Photo Gia Lộc Viet Nam News Gia Lộc HCM CITY— A former intravenous drug user in HCM City had the hepatitis C virus (HCV) for many years but did not know about it. Through a pilot project for raising HCV awareness among high-risk populations in the city and screening for the disease, she recently came to know about her status. But she said in tears, “I cannot get treatment because I cannot afford the medicines.” The medicines alone cost VNĐ7.5-15 million (US$322- $644) a month, whether at private or public hospitals. Dr Vũ Ngọc Bảo, deputy programme director of HIV/TB at PATH, a global NGO, said high-risk populations cannot afford HCV screening, diagnosis and treatment costs. According to Nguyễn Đăng … [Read more...] about Hepatitis C patients find treatment too expensive
Retired doctor gives free treatment for patients
Viet Nam News Tạ Nguyên HÀ NỘI — When doctor Nguyễn Văn Chương, decided to retire, he wasn’t ready to put his feet up. He could have decided to live the rest of his life relaxing after a lifetime of hard work, but no. Instead he decided to create a rehabilitation and physical therapy clinic to help those in need. In the small and old treatment room in Hà Nội’s Tây Hồ District, the doctor has found his joy and happiness by giving treatment for patients free of charge or at very low cost. For the last 24 years, Đông Hồ Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy Clinic has become the familiar address of poor people who get trouble with osteoarthritis. The clinic is always full of patients exercising with machines, being treated with infrared light therapy, getting massages or acupuncture from morning to night. Trần Thị Kim Ngân, patient from Bắc Từ Liêm … [Read more...] about Retired doctor gives free treatment for patients
Experts: Local clinics in need of revamp
A child receives a regular health check at the Hai Thuong health clinic in Hai Lang District, Quang Tri province. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - People require medical care even before they fall sick, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at the opening of a training programme to improve the quality of local clinics and the country’s grass-roots level health care system, in Hanoi’s Dan Phuong district. The most troubling issue faced by clinics is patients’ lack of faith due to inadequate medical supplies, equipment and medical workers’ ability. As of now, the clinics also double as vaccination and nutrition counselling centres for local communities, but when it comes to more complicated tasks such as diabetic treatment and cardiac complications they fall short of people’s expectations. “On top of training courses to improve local medical workers’ capacity, we will be sending skilled doctors from provincial and national hospitals … [Read more...] about Experts: Local clinics in need of revamp
Local clinics in need of revamp
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — People require medical care even before they fall sick, said health minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến at the opening of a training programme to improve the quality of local clinics and the country’s grass-roots level health care system, in Đan Phượng District, Hà Nội. The most troubling issue faced by clinics is patients’ lack of faith due to inadequate medical supplies, equipment and medical workers’ ability. As of now, the clinics also double as vaccination and nutrition counselling centres for local communities, but when it comes to more complicated tasks such as diabetic treatment and cardiac complications they fall short of people’s expectations. “On top of training courses to improve local medical workers’ capacity, we will be sending skilled doctors from provincial and national hospitals to work alongside them,” said Tiến. Also, according to the … [Read more...] about Local clinics in need of revamp