Nghi Van Medical Station - a trusted address for initial medical examination and treatment for people

(Baonghean.vn) - Nghi Van is a purely agricultural commune located in the southwest of Nghi Loc district. It has a large population and is often affected by floods. The development of epidemics is quite complicated, so in recent years, the need for health check-ups of people has increased.

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Faced with the above situation, when implementing the national target program on building new rural areas, based on reviewing the criteria, the Party Committee and People's Committee of Nghi Van commune chose the goal of achieving national health standards as one of the important criteria. After determining the roadmap, the commune started to build and implement the project. Along with investing in infrastructure, the commune has added human resources and improved the quality of initial health examinations for the people.

Despite many difficulties, the commune has spent more than 400 million VND and accessed and integrated the Natural Disaster Prevention Fund with more than 4.5 billion VND to renovate the office building, renovate and upgrade the station yard and campus, repair the waiting room... and purchase additional equipment to serve patients.

A working group from the Department of Health and the District Health Center inspected the facilities of Nghi Van Commune Health Station. Photo: Nguyen Hai.

Along with investment in infrastructure, the Party Committee and the People's Committee of the commune regularly direct the Medical Station to actively improve the quality of medical examination and treatment services for the people. With the enhancement of the expertise of the medical staff, the number of people coming to the Station for examination is increasing. Not only the people in the commune but also patients from communes such as Nghi Dien and Hung Yen Nam also come for examination.

At its peak, the station examined 40-50 patients a day and on average examined and treated more than 1,000 patients each year. Thanks to focused investment, Nghi Van Commune Medical Station now has a fairly spacious facility including a 2-storey medical examination and treatment building with 16 functional rooms and other full-fledged auxiliary works. In addition, the station has also built a manual incinerator to process common medical waste, contributing to environmental protection.

Ribbon cutting ceremony for Nghi Van commune health station. Photo: Nguyen Hai.

As a commune located in an area that is frequently flooded, the risk of various epidemics is quite high, so the Station pays great attention to preventive medical work. Along with effectively implementing campaigns on vaccination and cleaning and treating the environment, the commune has increased propaganda campaigns to raise people's awareness of maintaining environmental hygiene, and when signs of disease appear, they must immediately report to the Station for handling measures. Therefore, for many years in a row, the commune has not had any epidemics.

To carry out the above tasks, the commune is interested in building a team of village health workers; currently, 16/16 hamlets have health workers who have been trained for 9 months or more. Every month, this team has professional activities, meetings with the station and integrated training with collaborators of health programs, so their expertise is significantly improved.

Taking care of the medicinal plant garden at Nghi Van Commune Health Station. Photo: Nguyen Hai.

Not only does the health staff network in the village matter, during peak periods, the Health Station also advises the commune to establish an interdisciplinary team to inspect and urge food trading and supply establishments. During the recent Dinh Dau Lunar New Year, the commune inspected and requested 25 food production, trading and service establishments to sign a commitment to ensure hygiene; increased propaganda on the loudspeaker system about clean agricultural production and residential areas saying no to dirty food.

Along with Western medicine treatment, the Station also built a model garden of traditional medicine to guide people to learn and follow. With over 80 species, including quite common medicinal plants, people can grow and care for them at home, and when necessary, they can treat common diseases according to folk experience.

Thanks to the close attention of local authorities and synchronous solutions, medical examination and treatment and preventive medicine in Nghi Van have clearly changed. Up to now, over 80% of families dispose of waste according to regulations, the rate of families using hygienic latrines is 75%, over 98% of children are vaccinated against diseases according to standards, and there have been no cases of mass poisoning in the area for many years.

Ceremony of attaching the sponsorship sign for Nghi Van Commune Health Station. Photo: Nguyen Hai.

Doctor Cao Van Tien - Head of Nghi Van Commune Health Station said: The commune's recognition of meeting national health standards is a great effort of the locality, in which the first factor is that the Party Committee and the People's Committee of the commune have paid attention to investing thoroughly and systematically. One of the current concerns of the station's medical staff is to do a good job of prevention and continue to improve the quality of medical examination for the people. Every time people come for a medical examination, the doctors and nurses not only serve and treat them attentively but also examine and advise properly to find the best treatment solution for the patient.

Talking to us, comrade Thai Doan Si - Chairman of Nghi Van Commune People's Committee said: one of the biggest orientations and wishes of the Party Committee and the commune government is that the medical team of the Station continues to strive, promote the achievements, organize more active examination and treatment for the people, worthy of the commune's investment and the people's trust in the commune's doctors./.

Nguyen Hai