Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits and extends New Year greetings at hospitals in Hanoi

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh encouraged and wished a Happy New Year to the staff and doctors of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA

Forever lighting up the spirit of medical ethics, serving the community

At Viet Duc Hospital, the Prime Minister visited and wished a happy new year to patients being treated at the Intensive Care Unit II; and gave gifts to encourage doctors and nurses on duty at the unit.

Reporting to the Prime Minister, the leader of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital said that the hospital has more than 2,500 doctors, officers and medical staff. The hospital currently has 1 institute, 12 centers, 43 departments, 15 divisions, and 1 Medical College.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits and wishes a happy new year to patients being treated at the Intensive Care Unit II, Viet Duc Friendship Hospital. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA.

In 2022, the Hospital exceeded all professional targets despite having just overcome the COVID-19 pandemic: performing 79,788 surgeries, mainly special surgeries; of which 12.3% were emergency surgeries. The hospital was crowded with patients, doctors worked almost from 6 am, having to ensure a huge amount of medicine and medical supplies.

The hospital is certified by the Royal College of Surgeons of England; is the leading organ transplant center in the country, transferring organ transplant techniques to other hospitals in the country; the hospital also performs all types of brain surgery... During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1,000 cadres, doctors, and medical staff of the hospital volunteered to go to the South to support the fight against the pandemic.

In 2022, the Hospital effectively managed its finances with a revenue of more than 3,500 billion VND, ensuring an average income of 27 million VND/person/month; for Tet bonuses alone, the Hospital spent more than 50 billion VND. A total of about 600 patients were being treated at the Hospital on the 30th of Tet, with an average of 150 patients/day coming for examination. The Hospital has 95% of health insurance patients and poor patients; supporting 8.5 billion VND for the poor from the Hospital's resources and sponsorship.

Here, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan presented gifts to encourage representatives of 10 families of patients in difficult circumstances who are being treated at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital; and presented gifts to encourage doctors and nurses on duty on the 30th of Tet at the hospital.

Speaking at the program "Loving Tet - Sharing Tet" Spring Quy Mao 2023 organized by the Hospital, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh was moved to visit and share the difficulties and hardships of the team of doctors, medical staff, and patients being treated at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his sympathy to the families of patients being treated at hospitals across the country; hoping that doctors, with the spirit of “Doctors are like kind mothers”, will take care of patients wholeheartedly, selflessly, and purely, so that patients can feel secure and quickly recover and return to work and family.

The program "Tet of Love - Tet of Sharing Spring Quy Mao 2023" organized by Viet Duc Friendship Hospital. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA

The Prime Minister expressed his emotion at the hospital's Tet celebrations and gifts for patients being treated there; hoped that families would cooperate with the hospital to take care of patients; and that doctors and nurses would also try to assign shifts to ensure patient care.

On the occasion of the New Year, the Prime Minister sent his warmest regards, best wishes and best wishes for the New Year to all cadres, doctors, medical staff, and patients being treated at Viet Duc Hospital in particular, and all hospitals nationwide.

The Prime Minister hopes that the Hospital will continue to improve its skills, professional capacity, management, implementation, and other tasks; improve and innovate science and technology to meet the requirements of medical examination and treatment, keeping up with world trends; continue to perfect the mechanism to be autonomous, mobilize resources from the people and society to continue to do better in the work of caring for and treating the people. The health sector and the Hospital must strongly grasp this spirit.

The Prime Minister requested Viet Duc Friendship Hospital to continue to promote the spirit of "Doctors are like kind mothers" as taught by Uncle Ho; to put the care and protection of people's health first and foremost; to build a spacious, clean, and environmentally friendly hospital; to improve professional skills and medical ethics; to increase innovation and creativity, to find the most optimal solutions to care for and protect people's health; to promote the tradition of solidarity, unity, and always innovate in difficult times. The Prime Minister stated that our country is in the process of transformation, so the Government is making efforts to innovate mechanisms and create the best conditions for the health sector, however, the process still faces many difficulties.

The Head of Government hopes that the health sector in general and Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in particular will continue to contribute, forever lighting up the spirit of medical ethics, serving the community, doing a good job of taking care of people's health, contributing to the successful implementation of the two tasks of building and defending the Fatherland.

Looking forward to the Vietnamese Doctors' Day on February 27, the Prime Minister wished the Viet Duc Friendship Hospital to continue to uphold the tradition of the medical sector and achieve more success in the cause of protecting and caring for people's health; especially as a final-line hospital, the Prime Minister hoped that the Hospital would strive to enhance its professional capacity, take advantage of the "golden hour" to treat patients, especially those who have had accidents, bringing early recovery to patients and happiness to families.

Link in preventing and fighting COVID-19

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits and wishes a happy new year to staff and doctors at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA

At the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases (Dong Anh, Hanoi), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Department; visited and presented gifts to the on-duty team and some patients being treated there.

Speaking and wishing the hospital’s staff, doctors and medical staff a Happy New Year, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his emotion when visiting the hospital and witnessing the doctors and medical staff still working hard to take care of people’s health and protect their lives; especially many female doctors and medical staff still put aside family work to work.

The Head of Government was pleased to see that the Hospital has been constantly developing in both scale and quality over the years. From a building with 120 beds and 75 staff members at the time of its establishment, the Hospital now has two spacious facilities with relatively modern machinery and equipment, a team of highly qualified and responsible doctors, nurses and technicians; truly becoming a trusted address for the people in the treatment of dangerous diseases.

The Prime Minister assessed that the Hospital has grown remarkably through the COVID-19 pandemic; requested the Ministry of Health to summarize the expertise, organization, and other related work within its functions, tasks, and major policies on epidemic prevention and control.

The Prime Minister emphasized that Vietnam has made the right decisions in preventing and fighting the epidemic and achieved high efficiency. Thanks to that, Vietnam has controlled and repelled the epidemic early, opened the economy early, and successfully and safely organized the 31st SEA Games, which is a very important test of safety against the COVID-19 epidemic.

In that success, the Ministry of Health plays a very important role and the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases is an important link in the fight against the epidemic. During the pandemic, cadres, doctors and medical staff bravely faced dangerous epidemics to treat patients, dedicating themselves to the Fatherland and the people. The hospital had to make efforts to treat patients and support the South.

On behalf of the Government, the Prime Minister commended and highly appreciated the results that the Hospital has achieved in the past time; hoped that the Hospital would unite and strive to fulfill the noble tasks assigned, promote the spirit of "Bright medical ethics, profound medical theory, good medical skills"; promote the spirit as Uncle Ho taught "Doctors are like kind mothers"; "... love and care for patients like their own blood brothers and sisters, consider their pain as their own pain...".

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents gifts and encourages relatives of patients in difficult circumstances being treated at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA

The Prime Minister hopes that the Ministry of Health will promote its recent achievements and be ready to go anywhere and do anything when people's lives and health are threatened. The team of doctors, cadres and medical staff of the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in particular and the team of doctors and nurses in the health sector have been dedicated, not afraid of hardship, difficulty and danger, joining hands with the medical team and other forces to fight tirelessly against the epidemic, putting people's lives and health first and foremost.

The Prime Minister stated that the epidemic will continue to develop complicatedly in the coming time, requiring accurate forecasts to prepare the mindset, resources, and human resources, and replicate good models and practices; strengthen epidemic prevention and control, promote vaccination, especially for people with underlying diseases and the elderly; and request localities to follow the spirit of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control to vaccinate enough doses of vaccine according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health in a scientific, safe, and effective manner.

Agencies, units and localities must raise awareness of disease prevention and control, especially in crowded places; strengthen food hygiene and safety during Tet.

The Ministry of Health needs to provide guidance on food safety measures for localities during this Tet holiday, avoiding mass food poisoning incidents in crowded urban areas, factories, enterprises, etc.; calling on people to both prevent and fight the epidemic and ensure food safety and hygiene, so that everyone and every family can have a safe, joyful, healthy and economical Tet holiday.

The Head of Government requested the Hospital to increase its readiness during these Tet holidays, provide the best service, and put the health and lives of the people above all else.

“The Party, State and people acknowledge the efforts of doctors and medical staff during this Tet holiday,” the Prime Minister affirmed.

Looking forward to the Vietnamese Doctors' Day on February 27, the Prime Minister wished the Hospital to uphold its tradition, continue to do a good job of taking care of people's health and lives during Tet; make efforts to assign staff to ensure work, be ready to promptly treat patients; maintain health, ensure food hygiene and safety; and wish the health sector in general and the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in particular to reap more success.

Pham Tiep