Nghe An: 3 million people were examined and treated in the first 6 months of 2019
(Baonghean.vn) - That was the information given at the conference to review the first 6 months of the year and deploy tasks for the last 6 months of 2019, organized by Nghe An Department of Health on the morning of June 28.
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Conference to review the first 6 months of the year of the Nghe An Health Sector. Photo: Thanh Chung |
According to the report, although there have been no dangerous outbreaks in the province since the beginning of the year, Nghe An has still recorded 4 cases of rabies deaths due to not being vaccinated. Targeted health and population programs such as vaccination, tuberculosis prevention, HIV/AIDS, population - family planning, food safety, etc. continue to be implemented with good results.
Hospitals continue to maintain, strengthen and develop high-tech medical services such as: heart surgery, mitral valve dilation, percutaneous gastrostomy, prostate vaporization. There have been 3 million medical examinations, 300,000 inpatients and over 50,000 surgeries of all kinds.
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There were 3 million people examined and treated in the first 6 months of 2019. Photo: Thanh Chung |
In addition to the achievements, preventive medicine and treatment still face many difficulties and problems: The development of infectious diseases is complicated, disease patterns change unpredictably, causing many difficulties in disease prevention and control. The management mechanism of Social Insurance is still not synchronous in management, leading to inconvenience in payment of benefits to patients.
The quality of medical examination and treatment at some facilities is still limited; equipment and infrastructure are not uniform. In particular, the lack of doctors with good expertise and techniques is common, especially at the grassroots level, causing suspicion for patients, as well as overloading the upper level...