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How does the Da Nang health sector focus on improving the quality of services at all levels and developing specialised medical fields?
- The health sector identifies improving the quality of medical services as a key task, with the motto of synchronous development of both grassroots and specialised medical care. First of all, focus is placed on strengthening and improving the quality of primary health care to ensure that people have access to primary health care services as quickly and as closely as possible.
Currently, the system of ward and commune-level healthcare stations has been renovated, upgraded and invested in equipment according to prescribed standards. Along with that, the approved job position project ensures sufficient quantity and occupational structure according to health care requirements in terms of population size and primary healthcare tasks.
Through the city’s specific policies including recruitment, attraction, training, and fostering, gradually perfecting human resources at the grassroots level, meeting the requirements of implementing preventive health programmes, public health, and gradually implementing non-communicable disease management, primary health care according to the principles of family medicine.
At the same time, through satellite hospital projects, district-level hospitals and healthcare centres are improving their capacity to perform techniques according to decentralization, contributing to reducing the burden on upper-level levels.
The city always keeps an eye on developing specialized medical fields, especially cardiovascular, oncology, obstetrics, pediatrics and orthopedics, gradually transferring advanced techniques in specialized fields, such as stroke and organ transplantation. Many advanced techniques have been transferred and put into routine implementation, such as open heart surgery, vascular intervention, high-precision radiotherapy, in vitro fertilization and organ transplantation.
In particular, the city is cooperating with national hospitals and international medical organisations helps Da Nang medical facilities quickly access advanced and modern medical technologies, helping people to receive high-tech medical examination and treatment right in the city, reducing the need to transfer patients to higher levels or abroad.
The city also promotes the application of digital technology in medical examination and treatment, deploys electronic health records, medical image storage and transmission systems (PACS Cloud), helps to connect information between levels, improves the quality of diagnosis and treatment.
* Da Nang is focusing on developing healthcare into a high-quality service sector and gradually becoming the core of a specialized healthcare center in the Central Viet Nam - Central Highlands region. How is the city’s healthcare sector preparing to soon achieve the set goals?
-To realize this goal, the Da Nang healthcare sector is synchronously implementing many solutions, focusing on three main pillars: investing in infrastructure, improving the quality of human resources and strongly applying modern medical technology.
Accordingly, the city continues to invest in upgrading and expanding key end-line hospitals such as the Da Nang General Hospital, the Da Nang Oncology Hospital, the Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children in the direction of forming specialized healthcare centers and at the same time develops a system of private clinics and hospitals that meet international standards.
The city also has issued policies to attract investors in the healthcare sector and developed a high-quality medical tourism model, thereby not only serving local people but also targeting patients in the region and internationally. Tasks have been fulfilled in training a team of high-quality doctors and medical staff through cooperation with universities, medical organizations, and large hospitals at home and abroad.
In-depth training programmes, professional exchanges and sending doctors to study abroad are being implemented effectively to improve skills and master advanced techniques.
At the same time, heed has been paid to promoting digital transformation in healthcare, building a smart hospital system, managing the health of the entire population with digital data, implementing remote medical examination and treatment and helping people access high-quality medical services right in the city.
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* How does the city's health sector prepare resources to develop Da Nang Hospital into a special-class hospital, one of the national coordination centres for human organ transplantation, and at the same time develop the Oncology Hospital and the Hospital for Women and Children into units assuming regional functions in oncology and obstetrics and pediatrics by 2030, with a vision towards 2050?
- Upgrading the Da Nang General Hospital to a special-class level, building general and specialized hospitals to play a regional role and form a regional organ transplantation coordination center in the Central Viet Nam - Central Highlands regions is an important part of the city's health system development strategy, as determined in Resolution No. 43-NQ/TW of the Politburo on building and developing Da Nang city by 2030, with a vision to 2045.
To achieve this goal, the city is focusing on investing in expanding the scale and modern equipment at the Da Nang General Hospital. Accordingly, the Da Nang General Hospital has invested in upgrading its infrastructure, expanding specialized treatment centers, especially the Organ Transplant Centre, the Cardiovascular Centre, and the Orthopedic Trauma Centre.
At the same time, it is promoting the training of organ transplant teams, cooperating with major hospitals in the country and internationally. The city aims to build the hospital into a regional organ transplant coordination centre in the Central Viet Nam - Central Highlands regions, contributing to reducing the burden on those in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City.
For the Da Nang Oncology Hospital, the Da Nang Department of Health is investing in a modern radiotherapy system, developing advanced cancer treatment techniques such as immunotherapy and targeted therapy. By 2030, the hospital aims to become the leading cancer treatment center in the region.
Along with that, the Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children is also investing to improve the capacity of maternal and child health care, build advanced reproductive support centres, develop newborn care services and treat complex diseases. These preparations will help Da Nang become a specialized medical center, serving not only the people of the city but also the whole region.
* How does the Da Nang health sector promote digital transformation to improve service quality and facilitate people?
- The Da Nang Department of Health has issued a project to develop smart healthcare through creating a foundation for digital transformation in the health sector and unify the management of information technology applications throughout the sector. In addition, the city is effectively implementing medical tasks under Project 06/QD-TTg of the Vietnamese Government (integrating chip-based citizen identification cards, cashless payments, biometric kiosks); digitizing medical records, moving towards deploying electronic medical records, not using paper medical records; applying RIS-PACS in storing and transmitting medical images. At the same time, the city is promoting online appointment booking services and improving patient experience.
In the coming time, the health sector will complete the electronic health records for the entire population; develop a shared medical data warehouse, connect tests between hospitals; apply artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnosis, treatment and smart medical management; build a smart prevention system and early disease warning. These solutions will help Da Nang become a pioneer city in digital health, bringing many benefits to the people.
