Ho Chi Minh City wants to become the medical tourism center of Southeast Asia | Medical

2023-06-17 12:57:02

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“Ho Chi Minh City needs to implement many synchronous solutions to soon become the healthcare center of the whole ASEAN region.” This is the opinion made at the Conference “Evaluating the effectiveness and orientation of intensive health development in Ho Chi Minh City” held on June 17.

Reporting at the Conference, Associate Professor, PhD, Doctor Tang Chi ThuongDirector of the City Health Department said: The city’s health sector has learned the lessons of experience from countries in the region with developed health systems such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia…

From the reality of the City’s health sector, the Director of the Department of Health has proposed 7 groups of solutions to help the health sector develop in an advanced and modern direction. That is: It is necessary to soon establish a center for training high-quality medical human resources; Develop modern infrastructure, deploy high-tech medical zone according to the model of institute – school; Developing specialized techniques to meet the disease patterns and health care needs of the people; Building a network of specialized care from specialized medical care to grassroots health care; Provide a full range of quality health care, meeting the diverse needs of the people; Building and developing a network of medical tourism, promoting the combination of modern medicine and traditional medicine; Promote research and development and innovation activities in the medical field.

Professor, Dr. Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health commented, Ho Chi Minh City is the leading locality in the country in professional and technical development when it can perform many difficult techniques and treat many serious diseases. poor, access and master most advanced medical techniques in the world…

In the coming time, in order to meet the increasing and diverse health care needs of the people of the city as well as the southern provinces, contributing to socio-economic development, leaders of Ho Chi Minh City need to continue to continue to pay attention and direct medical work, in which: continue to invest in the development of modern, high-quality medical facilities on a par with the region, with the orientation to become a specialized medical center of the Eastern region. South Asia through investment commensurate with the need for specialized medical development.

In addition, the city needs to have its own mechanism and policy, possibly in the form of a pilot, especially a financial mechanism, a price mechanism for medical examination and treatment services in the direction of correct calculation, sufficient calculation, ensuring for hospital operations and technical professional development.

At the same time, the city has implemented a number of important projects in the health sector such as: developing the pharmaceutical industry, ensuring food safety, socialization, mobilizing private medical resources, and applying technology. information and digital transformation in the medical field, promoting outpatient emergency…

Proud of the medical achievements that have been achieved, Mr. Phan Van Mai, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee said: In order to assume the role of health care center in the South, the city has been practicing focus on consolidating, developing and improving the quality of the grassroots health care network, focusing on the management and care of non-communicable diseases; Deploy medical stations operating on the principles of family medicine, develop technical expertise at medical stations; Combining development of eastern and western medicine in examination and treatment.

In addition, the city focuses on improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, training specialized human resources for general and specialized hospitals towards the development of high-tech and intensive medical care to meet the needs of patients. domestic and foreign patients.

[Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh đối mặt với nguy cơ ‘dịch chồng dịch’]

In order for Ho Chi Minh City to soon become an ASEAN regional health care center, according to Chairman of the City People’s Committee Phan Van Mai, the city will continue to invest in completing the medical facility system according to the plan. , especially specialized hospitals; Having policies to encourage investment in hospitals and policies on private investment, investment from abroad; Focus on perfecting policies on development of medical services and medical tourism; Continue to promote and adopt supportive policies to build hospitals according to international standards and international ratings.

In the photo: Representatives of the Department of Tourism and Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health chaired the discussion session at the launch event of medical tourism products in 2023. (Photo: My Phuong – VNA)

Besides, Ho Chi Minh City will also focus on developing health data connection towards smart health development; To promulgate policies on research and development activities, and to develop microbiological technology; Encourage start-up activities in the medical field, especially high-tech healthcare.

Mr. Phan Van Mai suggested that the Ministry of Health and relevant central and local agencies perfect the regional network of health care in diagnosis, treatment, human resource training and other mechanisms. most specialized medical. At the same time, focus on perfecting and further improving the quality of State management in health, creating an administrative legal framework to develop an international-level healthcare center in an intensive direction.

The conference “Evaluation of effectiveness and orientation for intensive medical development in Ho Chi Minh City” took place in two days (June 17 – 18) with more than 80 scientific reports, focusing on medical techniques. Specialized training has been successfully implemented by hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City.

The conference is an opportunity for managers and experts in the medical field to share experiences and knowledge; thereby offering solutions to help Ho Chi Minh City soon become a health care center for the whole ASEAN region./.

Dinh Hang (VNA/Vietnam+)