Cua Dong General Hospital: 18 years of carrying out a noble mission

WHERE PATIENTS PLACE THEIR TRUST

After more than 2 weeks of taking care of a relative who suffered a stroke and was being treated at the Oriental Medicine Department, Cua Dong General Hospital, and witnessing her relative facing death, Ms. Tran Thi Nga (Thanh Chuong district, Nghe An) deeply understood the spirit of dedication and devotion to the mission of saving people of doctors and nurses.

She choked up as she expressed her gratitude to the doctors: "When I was admitted to the hospital, my father's life was hanging by a thread. Thanks to the good doctors who promptly treated him and took good care of him, he was revived. Now, my father's health has gradually stabilized."

Associate Professor, Dr. Ha Hoang Kiem guides the transfer of dissection techniques to treat frozen shoulder periarthritis for patients at the Hospital. Photo: Cao Phuong

Choosing Cua Dong General Hospital to place her trust in treatment, patient Nguyen Thi D. (69 years old, Quynh Luu district) was touched and grateful to the doctors and nurses for their dedicated treatment and care, helping her to quickly recover after colon tumor surgery. “When treated here, patients are cared for and looked after by doctors and nurses like family members. The doctor directly washed the patient's wound and was always present whenever the patient needed it, which made me extremely grateful. In addition, inpatient treatment, in modern medical conditions, fully equipped, clean, with free in-room meals, made the patient feel secure and quickly recovered his health."

Cua Dong General Hospital has achieved many successes in 18 years of carrying out its mission of taking care of people's health. Photo: Cao Phuong

Satisfaction and gratitude towards doctors and nurses are the common feelings of patients when visiting, receiving treatment and taking care of their health at Cua Dong General Hospital. That is the result of strategic orientation and the tireless efforts of the hospital's leadership and medical staff throughout the 18-year journey of building and developing; for the goal of providing the best health care for the people.

CONSTANTLY IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT

Identifying “people” and “science and technology” as the “key” factors to build the brand, while meeting the needs of medical examination and treatment, Cua Dong General Hospital always focuses on training and fostering high-quality human resources along with implementing many new and specialized techniques from leading hospitals in the country. The hospital regularly sends masters, level I specialists, level II specialists, and resident doctors for training. Many doctors and nurses are sent to upper-level hospitals to receive technical transfer.

To effectively implement the satellite hospital project, the Hospital has coordinated with the Training and Command Center of Bach Mai Hospital to successfully organize training and transfer of nearly 10 specialized techniques and many new technical services...

The hospital has performed routine laparoscopic surgery in many areas of digestive, abdominal, and knee surgery. Photo: Cao Phuong

In order to create conditions for people to receive effective medical examination and treatment right in the locality, the Hospital has cooperated with central hospitals such as Viet Duc Hospital, Bach Mai Hospital, Cho Ray Hospital, Military Medical Academy... to directly examine and treat patients and train the hospital's professional staff in the form of "hands-on instruction".

At the same time, focusing on promoting scientific research, in 2019-2020, the Hospital has carried out nearly 10 scientific research topics, which have practical application value, contributing to improving the quality of medical examination and treatment; bringing many modern and advanced medical services to serve patients.

The hospital invests in a system of modern, synchronous medical equipment and machinery. Photo: Cao Phuong

Along with that, the Hospital constantly invests in a system of modern, synchronous medical equipment and machinery, providing accurate diagnostic results such as: 128-row CT scanner, MRI, 5P NBI endoscopy, modern testing lab system that can perform most of the tests currently being deployed by provincial and central hospitals; best meeting the needs of medical examination and treatment.

Thanks to the orientation of focusing on human factors and science and technology to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, currently, the hospital's team of more than 400 cadres, doctors and medical staff are implementing and mastering nearly 5,000 techniques according to the level, of which more than 50% of the techniques belong to the province and the central level; effectively treating many difficult and dangerous cases, notably: Laparoscopic surgery and open surgery to treat malignant and benign stomach tumors, colon and rectal tumors, liver tumors, mesenteric tumors, retroperitoneal tumors, cholecystectomy; hip replacement surgery, cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery...

ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY

In addition to promoting the top priority of taking care of people's health, the Hospital also always focuses on social security. In 2020, in the face of the complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Hospital promptly provided modern, fully automated molecular biology equipment and qualified human resources to the CDC Center to serve the screening of SARS-CoV-2 virus; with the desire to contribute a small part to the province in disease prevention and control.

Cua Dong General Hospital supports the automatic SHPT testing system for SARS-CoV-2 virus testing for Nghe An Province's Center for Disease Control. Photo: Cao Phuong