Patients rarely go to health stations because of loss of trust.

(Baonghean.vn) - Faced with the reality that patients rarely go to health stations because of loss of trust, Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Le Tuan - Deputy Minister of Health affirmed: Doctors at health stations are not bad, but only rarely updated with knowledge.

Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Le Tuan - Deputy Minister of Health stated: It is necessary to train and update knowledge for doctors working at the station to regain people's trust. Photo: Thanh Son

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the training course to improve the quality of examination and treatment of chronic diseases according to the principles of family medicine at Nam Dan District Medical Center on the afternoon of November 1, Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Le Tuan - Deputy Minister of Health stated: In recent years, primary health care for people in communes, wards and towns has gradually improved.improved. However, due to limitations in human resources and equipment investment, this work still has many limitations.

Specifically, the health station has not yet fully utilized its capacity; people have not yet had their health managed in the community, and mainly still go to district and provincial health facilities for medical examination and treatment, increasing the overload situation at the higher levels... Patients rarely go to health stations because they have lost trust.

Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Le Tuan affirmed: Doctors at the Health Station are not bad doctors. 90% of the knowledge that doctors acquire at school has been applied to diagnose and treat patients at the Health Station. The reason why the Health Station has lost the trust of the people is because of lack of training and knowledge update, so the expertise is not developed.

Doctors at the health station provide consultation and health check-ups for people in Nghia Binh commune, Tan Ky district. Photo: Thanh Son

The health stations have not performed their functions well due to the lack of timely and focused orientation according to the changes in society. That is, the disease model has changed with the increase of chronic diseases, non-communicable diseases such as blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, cancer; the financial mechanism has shifted from subsidy to health insurance source, the budget only ensures disease prevention work.

The primary health care system is always very important. To promote the effectiveness of primary health care in a comprehensive and continuous manner, the Health Station needs to integrate the family doctor principle with disease screening and appropriate referral, contributing to reducing the load on upper-level hospitals, creating favorable conditions for health insurance beneficiaries to access the nearest and most effective medical examination and treatment services.

The Deputy Minister of Health emphasized: An endocrine patient who goes to a higher level hospital every month to queue up just to get medicine can also get it at the Health Station. However, to do this, doctors must be upgraded. Doctors at the Health Station do not need specialized training courses but only need to attend short-term training courses. It is necessary to promote the implementation of the family doctor model because they are the protectors of the health system.

Dr. Duong Dinh Chinh - Acting Director of the Department of Health affirmed: Nghe An Health Sector will promote training of human resources for family medicine. Photo: Thanh Son

Nghe An is one of the first provinces in the country to implement the family doctor model. On October 3, the Nghe An Department of Health issued Document 2417/SYT-NVY directing the implementation of the family doctor model in Nam Dan district. The Nghe An Department of Health and Nam Dan district have requested the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management, Ministry of Health to allow them to open the first training course for the staff of doctors working in 24 communes and towns of Nam Dan district and the district health center.

Nghe An health sector and Nam Dan district hope that through this training course, doctors of Nam Dan district will be updated with new and more complete knowledge about public health management, first of all diseases related to endocrine, cardiovascular (hypertension), Oriental medicine and common diseases of the Geriatric specialty.

Thanh Son