Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam visits sanitation workers and patients

Late afternoon on the 30th of Tet, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung visited Hanoi Urban Environment Company and Bach Mai Hospital.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam visited and presented gifts to patients being treated at A9 Bach Mai on the afternoon of the 30th of the Lunar New Year - Photo: THUY ANH

Speaking to the doctors, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that medicine is a difficult profession, requiring night shifts and Tet shifts with high work intensity.

The Deputy Prime Minister hopes that Bach Mai Hospital, the leading medical facility in Vietnam, will be a pioneer in applying information technology.

According to Mr. Dam, in 2016, the cost of medical examination and treatment from the Health Insurance Fund reached 70,000 billion VND, with tens of thousands of types of drugs and technical services. If information technology is not applied, costs will not be controlled.

Mr. Dam said the Government has a plan to use this savings to establish a health monitoring book for all people, instead of only the rich and officials being monitored as is currently the case.

According to Mr. Nguyen Quoc Anh - Director of Bach Mai Hospital, by the afternoon of the 30th of Tet, the hospital still had more than 800 seriously ill patients who had to stay for treatment during the Tet holidays.

The hospital will organize free Tet meals for all patients and medical staff during Tet, and organize medical examinations at the clinic during Tet as usual.

On the 30th of Tet alone, the hospital received and examined 300 patients.

After visiting seriously ill patients at Department A9 Bach Mai, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Chairman of Hanoi visited environmental workers.

At 9:00 p.m. on the 30th of Tet, President Tran Dai Quang will visit patients being treated at Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi and wish a happy new year to medical staff.

According to TTO