Centre transfers medical techniques to Sóc Trăng hospital The HCM City University Medical Centre has successfully transferred many advanced medical techniques in cardiovascular intervention, traumatology and orthopaedics to Sóc Trăng Province General Hospital over the past two years.

Satellite hospital project helps reduce hospital congestion

A satellite hospital project has helped reduce patient overloads at hospitals, especially at central facilities in Hà Nội and HCM City, in its five years of implementation, conference-goers were told today in Hà Nội.

Satellite hospitals save lives in remote areas

Historically, the mostly publicly financed health care system in Việt Nam has only been able to afford to pour resources into a handful of central level hospitals in big cities, forcing patients living in remote areas with serious diseases to go to Hà Nội or HCM City for treatment.

Provincial hospitals improve ability to treat heart ailments

The training provided by leading central-level hospitals in HCM City has helped doctors at provincial facilities apply latest techniques and advances to treat heart patients, reducing the need for emergency transfers.

Satellite hospitals now capable of heart surgery

Advanced medical techniques in cardiovascular surgery and interventions have been successfully transferred to provincial hospitals, saving the lives of hundreds of patients every year, doctors have said. 

 

Ninh Thuận hospital sets up specialised heart unit

The Ninh Thuận Province General Hospital yesterday opened a cardio-vascular intervention unit for specialised cardiac monitoring and procedures.

Hospitals use satellite offices to handle overload It was 10am at the HCM City Oncology Hospital in Binh Thanh District. Tran Van Ly, a 53 year-old who had travelled from nearby Binh Duong Province, was waiting for his turn to take a hematology test.

VN lacks cash for satellite hospitals A Ministry of Health plan to build additional satellite hospitals across the nation and upgrade existing ones lacks money and qualified personnel, the Minister of Health, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, has said.

Project helping reduce overcrowding at central hospitals Examination and treatment services have improved remarkably at 48 hospitals after two years of implementing a satellite hospital project that aims to reduce overcrowding at central hospitals in the country.

Healthcare upgrade will take time Overnight results cannot be expected on reducing hospital overload, Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Medical Examination and Treatment Department, tells Nong thon Ngay nay.