Hospital upgrade helps provincial patients in Vietnam

 12-Nov-15, Viet Nam News

The biggest success of Vietnam's Ministry of Health provincial hospital development project was narrowing the gap in quality of treatment between central and lower-level hospitals, a health official has said.

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Doctor Tang Chi Thuong, Deputy Director of HCM City's health department said after two years doctors of satellite hospitals in the south have applied advanced medical techniques transferred by their colleagues of central hospitals, mainly in cardiology, oncology, exterior injuries, obstetrics and paediatrics.

Fourteen central hospitals were chosen by the Ministry of Health as ‘core hospitals' responsible for transferring advanced medical techniques to 46 satellite hospitals across 38 provinces and cities in Viet Nam.

Can Tho City's Tumour Hospital was valued as one of the successfully implemented satellite hospitals in the south. It has so far applied 17 advanced medical techniques transferred by central hospitals, of which some techniques have never been used in provincial-level hospitals, including cervical cancer, laparoscopic surgery.

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