Nghe An Orthopedic Trauma Hospital was honored as 'Green Hospital 2020'

Throughout the journey of carrying out the mission of taking care of people's health, Nghe An Orthopedic Trauma Hospital always focuses on investing in facilities, equipment, training to improve the professional qualifications of doctors and medical staff, promoting the effectiveness of advanced techniques in examination and treatment; mastering and developing new, modern techniques to improve quality, bringing the best services to the people.

With thoseWith efforts in management and comprehensive quality improvement, the hospital has achieved many outstanding achievements in recent times; becoming a trusted address for people in the area and neighboring areas.

In addition to medical expertise, building a “Green - Clean - Beautiful” environment is identified by the hospital as an important activity to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment; aiming at patient satisfaction.

The hospital campus is covered with trees and flowers, creating a cool, friendly feeling for patients. Photo: Dau Huyen

Efforts to build a "Green Hospital"

When visiting Nghe An Orthopedic Trauma Hospital, the general feeling of patients and their families is a feeling of comfort, coolness, cleanliness, and friendliness because the hospital campus is covered with green trees and flowers. In the treatment departments, many green trees are arranged along the corridors; creating a fresh, green, clean, and beautiful environment.

After many days of treatment for injuries at the hospital, patient NTH shared: "The weather is hot, but we inpatients always feel comfortable and pleasant when being cared for and treated in the airy and friendly hospital space. In the morning and afternoon, patients often walk in the tree-lined campus, the fresh air creates a feeling of relaxation and comfort, thereby recovering better."

To create a green space, recently, the Hospital has invested in landscape renovation, flower and ornamental garden renovation, and planted more green trees in the campus, for patients and their families to rest and relax.

The hospital also always focuses on infection control in patient rooms. Photo: Dau Huyen

At the same time, the Hospital also always focuses on infection control by regularly cleaning hospital beds, patient rooms, and changing inpatients' clothes regularly; creating a sense of security and trust for patients coming for treatment.

To have a green, clean, and beautiful healthcare model requires not only the efforts of the unit's leaders but also the consensus of the staff, employees, and patients themselves.

According to Master, Doctor Nguyen Hoai Nam - Director of the Hospital, in recent times, the hospital has always focused on building a green, clean, and beautiful medical facility combined with emulation movements. The staff, doctors, and nurses have actively done a good job of preventing infections in departments, rooms, and on the hospital campus and regulations on personal hygiene and environmental sanitation procedures of medical facilities. Each medical staff member spends time every day cleaning the workplace and participates in general cleaning of the entire hospital every week.

Good management of waste treatment process

The hospital always fully complies with environmental protection regulations, infection control procedures are strictly implemented. In particular, the collection, treatment and management of medical waste as well as domestic waste always follow a closed process.

In performing daily professional tasks, medical staff have been educated, raised awareness, fully grasped the procedures and regulations on personal hygiene, strictly followed the routine hand washing procedure, and classified medical waste right at the place of generation, according to each group of regulations.

The hospital has signed contracts with legally qualified entities for the collection, transportation and treatment of waste, and has specified transportation routes and secured storage facilities for each type of waste.

Focus on social security work

Determining that the noble mission of the medical industry is always associated with community responsibility, over the past time, Nghe An Orthopedic Trauma Hospital has always actively supported patients, accompanied people in difficult circumstances with many practical social security activities.

The hospital organizes free haircuts and shampoos for patients treated at the hospital once a month. Photo: Dau Huyen

Every month, patients being treated at the hospital receive free haircuts and shampoos. This meaningful charity activity not only helps with personal hygiene for patients but also makes them feel loved, cared for and close to medical staff like family. In addition, poor patients and single people being treated at the hospital receive both material and spiritual support from the hospital.

Every year, the Hospital also carries out many other meaningful volunteer activities such as: Giving gifts to poor households in mountainous districts, supporting people affected by natural disasters and floods, supporting the "Tet for the Poor" Program Fund, giving free masks and hand sanitizer to patients during the Corona epidemic...

The hospital regularly organizes meaningful charity programs to give gifts and provide free medical examinations and medicine to the poor. Photo: Dau Huyen

Along with that, the journey of "Free medical examination and medicine distribution" for the poor of the Hospital has reached many difficult communes in mountainous districts and remote areas of Nghe An province such as: Ky Son, Tuong Duong, Tan Ky...

Nghe An Orthopedic Trauma Hospital was honored to receive the title "Green Hospital 2020". Photo: Dau Huyen

Recognizing the efforts in the movement to build a green - clean - beautiful hospital as well as environmental protection and social security work in the locality, on July 19, Nghe An Orthopedic Trauma Hospital was proud to join big names in the Vietnamese health sector such as Bach Mai Hospital and Children's Hospital 2 to receive the title "Green Hospital 2020" organized by the Vietnam Association of Trade Information and Consulting in coordination with agencies and units.