Nam Dan District Medical Center becomes a satellite unit of Bach Mai Hospital

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of December 2, the Provincial People's Committee and the Department of Health of Nghe An held a ceremony to announce the Decision to recognize Nam Dan District Medical Center as a satellite unit and sign a training and technology transfer agreement with Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi).

Attending the ceremony were People's Physician, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Kim Tien - Minister of Health; leaders of Departments and Offices of the Ministry of Health; leaders of Bach Mai Hospital, Central Eye Hospital; Ha Tinh Provincial Department of Health.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission; representatives of departments, branches and sectors in the province; leaders of Nam Dan district.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien presented the decision and flowers to congratulate Nam Dan District Medical Center. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Nam Dan District Medical Center is a unit that performs two functions: medical examination, treatment and disease prevention for the people of Nam Dan District and surrounding areas. Each year, the center examines and treats more than 80,000 patients, provides inpatient treatment for more than 10,000 people and performs about 1,000 surgeries.

In the past, the implementation of advanced techniques at the center has had many limitations, failing to meet the people's needs for medical examination and treatment; the number of patients who had to be transferred to other facilities is still high, especially those with endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, and digestive diseases.

Delegates attending the ceremony. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The reasons for the above limitations are due to outdated infrastructure, equipment and human resources in all departments and offices that are lacking in quantity and poor in quality. Specialized departments do not have enough conditions to develop cutting-edge; there is a lack of doctors and specialized training staff.

In order to comprehensively improve the Nam Dan District Medical Center, in July 2017, Nghe An Department of Health expressed the wish to build Nam Dan District Medical Center into a satellite of Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi) and was approved in principle by the Ministry of Health.

Signing of a cooperation agreement between Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi) and Nam Dan District Medical Center. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Bach Mai Hospital is a special-grade central hospital, the largest medical examination and treatment facility in the country. Currently, the hospital is responsible for transferring technology to 34 satellite hospitals, including 33 provincial hospitals and 1 international private hospital.

To become a satellite hospital of Bach Mai Hospital, Nam Dan District Medical Center has developed a project to submit to the Department of Health, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee for approval and sent to the Ministry of Health. On November 16, 2017, the Ministry of Health issued a Decision to supplement the list, recognize Nam Dan District Medical Center as a satellite unit and sign a training and technology transfer agreement with Bach Mai Hospital.

Presenting the recognition decision and delivering a congratulatory speech at the ceremony, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien stated: The Satellite Hospital Project has two main purposes, which are to help transfer advanced technology in five groups of diseases: cancer, cardiovascular, obstetrics, pediatrics and resuscitation from the central level to the provincial level; contributing to helping patients receive treatment right at home, reducing costs during the treatment process, and reducing the burden on upper-level hospitals.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien expressed her hope that Nam Dan District Medical Center will continuously innovate comprehensively to fulfill its mission of providing health care for the people. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The project has been implemented since 2013, and up to now, 119 provincial hospitals in 63 provinces and cities have been recognized as satellite hospitals of central special-class hospitals. With the success of the project, the Ministry of Health has decided to deploy the project to district-level hospitals and medical centers. Nam Dan District Medical Center is the first district-level unit to be recognized as a satellite hospital.

The Minister of Health expressed his wish that the Nam Dan District Medical Center would fully receive the advanced techniques transferred by Bach Mai Hospital. Along with that, the center needs to constantly innovate its financial mechanism, hospital management, attract and train high-quality human resources to perform well the tasks of medical examination, treatment and disease prevention for the people of the district and province.

Nghe An Health Sector needs to advise and build more health centers to become satellite units of central hospitals. From there, patients in mountainous areas can also enjoy high technology; the poor will not be left without treatment; and there will be no situation where people have never received health care.

Dr. Duong Dinh Chinh - Acting Director of the Department of Health hopes that all levels and sectors will continue to pay attention so that the Satellite Hospital Project can achieve high results. Photo: Thanh Cuong

When becoming a satellite unit, Nam Dan District Medical Center will be transferred, trained, and developed with advanced technology; thereby improving the quality of examination and treatment; reducing costs for patients, reducing the rate of referrals and contributing to reducing the load on upper-level hospitals.

To implement this decision, Bach Mai Hospital focuses on helping transfer technology to Nam Dan District Medical Center in key specialties such as emergency resuscitation, artificial kidney, diagnostic imaging, trauma surgery, treatment and diagnosis of endocrine diseases, and training of specialist doctors (including 17 training packages).

Within the framework of the ceremony, the People's Committee of Nam Dan district announced the decision to establish a Charity Fund to support poor dialysis patients. Nam Dan District Medical Center was donated 3.5 billion VND by Vietnam Gas Corporation, Tuan Loc Construction Investment Joint Stock Company donated 1 billion VND to build a hemodialysis center. Many other groups and individuals have supported the Charity Fund to support poor dialysis patients.

PetroVietnam Gas Corporation donated 3.5 billion VND to Nam Dan Medical Center. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Thanh Son - Thanh Cuong