Vietnam..Overloaded central hospitals in need of support
HÀ NỘI — Local-level health care facilities are expected to increase their capacity and provide better services to help reduce pressure at central hospitals by “gaining public trust”, said Nguyễn Nam Liên, director of the Planning and Finance Department under the Ministry of Health (MoH), at the ministry’s press conference yesterday. As Vietnamese in general tend to skip their local health facilities to go straight to central hospitals located in urban centres when they seek treatment, causing persistent overloading at these hospitals, the Government has been trying to find ways to improve the attractiveness of grassroots health care. Director Liên said that in the coming time, the health ministry would continue to invest in grassroots health care, especially at the district and commune level. Grassroots medical health facilities are also ordered to strengthen preventive care, monitoring and management of non-communicable diseases, as well as early diagnosis and effective initia...