Leaders of Nghe An General Friendship Hospital met and exchanged experiences with doctors and pharmacists

Focus on improving the quality of medical examination and treatment

At the meeting, the Hospital representative reported on the first 6 months' performance and development orientation for the last 6 months of the year.

Accordingly, currently, Nghe An General Hospital has 54 departments, offices, centers and affiliated teams, including 48 departments and offices (9 functional departments and 8 paraclinical departments, 31 clinical departments); 3 centers and 3 affiliated teams. As of June 2019, there are 1,302 staff, civil servants, public employees and workers; of which 385 have university degrees and 163 have postgraduate degrees.

Nghe An General Friendship Hospital successfully organized the program "Hospital leaders meet and exchange experiences with university and postgraduate doctors and pharmacists" for the first time. Photo: Duc Anh

In recent times, the Hospital has invested in synchronous, modern and advanced facilities and equipment and focused on training and improving the qualifications of its human resources. Thanks to that, the hospital has effectively deployed a number of advanced techniques, new techniques, and difficult techniques such as: neurological intervention, cardiovascular intervention, electrophysiological cautery of the heart muscle, complex open heart surgery, in vitro fertilization, multidisciplinary endoscopic surgery, continuous blood filtration, gene mapping, etc.

In the first 6 months of 2019, the hospital received nearly 143,900 patients, an increase of 103.3% over the same period in 2018; The number of inpatients was over 49,200 people, an increase of 111.3% over the same period in 2018;The number of major and secondary surgeries was 10,158, an increase of 107% over the same period in 2018.

Regarding the organizational structure of the Hospital, from January 1, 2019, the Stroke Center and the Department of Pediatrics - Neonatology have officially come into operation; Completed procedures to request the establishment of the Center for Reproductive Support; Developed a project to change the name of the Department of Internal Medicine A to the Department of Internal Medicine A - Geriatrics; Prepared a plan for autonomy in organizational structure, personnel and finance in group 2, Decree 85/2012/ND-CP of the Government for the second time (2020 - 2022 period), submitted to competent authorities for approval.

Orientation, in the last 6 months of the year, the Hospital will continue to invest in facilities, medical equipment, focus on training in many fields, to deploy new and high-tech techniques; complete the construction of the Job Position Project to prepare for the recruitment of civil servants; gradually build and implement the Electronic Health Project; Upgrade the application software system and hospital management to achieve a "Smart Hospital".

In vitro fertilization technique is being routinely and effectively implemented at Nghe An General Hospital. Photo: Hoang Yen

The hospital continues to perfect the implementation of registered techniques, focusing on cutting-edge high-tech specialties: endoscopic surgery, vascular intervention, neurointervention, emergency resuscitation; stem cell transplantation and kidney transplantation...

Exchange, share experiences, focus on hospital development

With the theme "Solidarity, humanity, focusing on developing specialized, multi-disciplinary, multi-specialty healthcare to bring Nghe An General Friendship Hospital to the level of the North Central region", at the meeting, the hospital leaders and university and postgraduate doctors and pharmacists exchanged and shared experiences in an enthusiastic and open manner.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Huong - Party Committee Secretary, Hospital Director oriented some key tasks for the hospital's development in the coming time. Photo: Duc Anh

There are 15 opinions of university and postgraduate doctors and pharmacists focusing on reflecting and providing solutions.on issues: Hospital professional development (development of aesthetic and dermatological specialties, improvement of medical examination and treatment processes,testing procedures, prescription issues, ensuring sterility in operating rooms and hospital infection control, hospital quality management activities, etc.); training and fostering of human resources; policies, renovation and application of hospital facilities and medical equipment; administrative reform (application of IT in patient payment procedures, medical examination and treatment procedures), coordination of departments, rooms, and centers in the hospital and promoting communication, etc.

Doctors and pharmacists reflect and offer solutions to problems to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment and the efficiency of the hospital's operations. Photo: Duc Anh

After listening and absorbing the opinions of the hospital's doctors and pharmacists, the Board of Directors, heads of functional departments and heads of paraclinical departments answered the above issues in detail, sympathetically and reasonably.

The meeting and exchange of experiences between leaders of Nghe An General Hospital of Friendship with university and postgraduate doctors and pharmacists demonstrated new thinking and breakthroughs of the Hospital Board of Directors in leadership and management; demonstrated the spirit of solidarity, democracy, and promoting the strength of the collective for a common goal.

The Hospital Board of Directors listens to opinions, thoughts, aspirations, and proposes solutions from university and postgraduate doctors and pharmacists, in order to contribute to improving and reforming the unit's activities. Photo: Duc Anh

Through that, the Hospital Board of Directors has listened to the opinions, thoughts, aspirations, and proposed solutions of university and postgraduate doctors and pharmacists, aiming to promote the "brainpower" of the human resources team, contributing to improving and reforming the Hospital's activities; contributing to the development of the Hospital as a medical center worthy of the North Central region.

Pharmacist CKI. Luong Quoc Tuan - Head of Pharmacy Department shared experiences and answered questions from doctors and pharmacists at the meeting. Photo: Duc Anh

Concluding the meeting, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Huong - Party Committee Secretary - Hospital Director emphasized: True to the theme of the meeting, the Hospital leadership hopes that all cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers will always be united in building the Hospital into a united bloc; departments, offices, and centers will share and sympathize with each other, strengthen good coordination in activities; be compassionate and love patients... to develop the Hospital.

The meeting content of university and postgraduate doctors and pharmacists has been included in the working regulations of the Hospital: Every year the Hospital will organize 2 meetings and exchange experiences, each time with a separate topic, reviewing the previously implemented content, and continuing to propose directions for implementing new content.

Every year, the General Hospital of Friendship will organize two meetings and exchange of experiences between the hospital leaders and university and postgraduate doctors and pharmacists, each with a different topic. Photo: Duc Anh

The Hospital Director also identified the key areas that the Hospital needs to focus on in the coming time, so that cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers have an orientation to promote their own capacity; contribute to the development of the unit: Focus on completing the necessary conditions to deploy routine kidney transplant techniques, under the help, direction, and technical support of Viet Duc Hospital; Focus on receiving the transfer of stem cell transplant techniques; Complete the information technology system; prepare to form an organ donation facility of Viet Duc Hospital's organ transplant center; determined to make the Hospital a hospital worthy of the North Central region in the surgical system./.