Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged health authorities to take urgent action to
reduce and prevent patient overloading at hospitals, which affects treatment
quality and inconveniences patients.
Speaking at yesterday’s conference held by the
Health Ministry to review public health care performance in 2011 and discuss
tasks for this year, the PM requested health authorities and hospitals,
especially large specialty hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city, seek ways
to put an end to situations in which patients have to share sickbeds or lie in
hospital corridors.
On the occasion of the Vietnamese Physician’s
Day (February 27), however, he also commended achievements gained by the heath
sector in the past 57 years.
Since its establishment in 1954, the sector
has developed from a workforce of just 300 to 200,000 and increased the number
of hospitals to 13,500, from which diverse examination and treatment services
have been provided to the public.
In spite of these gains, patient overloading
at hospitals at central and provincial levels remains a big problem, and has
resulted in treatment of a quality that has yet to meet patients’ expectations.
Meanwhile, the country has been facing many
epidemics, including bird flu, hand, foot and mouth disease, and dengue fever.
To fix the problem, the PM asked health
authorities to expand the hospital systems rapidly, improve management and
financial mechanisms, enhance examination and treatment quality, and provide
health insurance for the entire population by 2014.
The heath authorities should also ensure the
provision of examination and treatment services for poor people, the PM said.
He said local authorities should encourage
investors to take part in building hospitals and give them favorable conditions
under which to develop their projects.
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said
efforts would be made to combat the epidemics, ease patient overloading,
renovate financial mechanisms, expand the public health system, strengthen
medical personnel, boost healthcare education, and plot the model of treatment
on demand.
She also reported that the prices of about 520
of the 4,000 health services will be increased in April 2012, in an effort to
cover increased operating costs and increase treatment quality.
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