Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến has
invited local and overseas investors to invest into the healthcare sector in Việt
Nam, saying that one of the foundations of her ministry’s policy is to
encourage private enterprises to invest in the sector. — Photo giadinh.net.vn
Minister
of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến has invited local and overseas investors to
invest into the healthcare sector in Việt Nam, saying that one of the
foundations of her ministry’s policy is to encourage private enterprises to
invest in the sector.
Speaking
to about 1,000 delegates from 400 hospitals and organisations in 35 countries
at the 15th Hospital Management Asia (HMA) conference, which began in HCM City
yesterday, Tiến stressed that the Vietnamese Government had set a high priority
on promoting social welfare programmes and prioritising healthcare.
“The
Ministry of Health has strived to ensure fair, effective and quality health
care over past years. There are 1,300 hospitals with 250,000 patient beds in Việt
Nam at present. They serve more than 150 million outpatients and 15 million
inpatients while conducting 3 million surgeries every year,” she said.
However,
Tiến admitted there were challenges facing the health care sector and expressed
willingness to learn from other countries’ experience.
“We still
face many difficulties and challenges in expanding universal health insurance
coverage coupled with improving quality of service, extending benefits for
health insurance card holders together with innovating appropriate payment
mechanisms, identifying basic health benefits packages to meet the needs of
healthcare for most people,” she said.
“The
challenges also include deploying the family doctor system, improving primary
healthcare capacity and managing the quality of service and strengthening
quality management of hospitals and establishing an independant evaluation
unit,” she added.
During
the two-day event, 104 speakers from 22 countries will share their experiences.
They
focus on hospitals’ social responsibility, human resources development,
improving service quality, marketing and public relations, patient safety,
improving service quality, customer services, technical infrastructure and
medical equipment improvement, hospital governance reforms, and IT application.
Fifty-three
awards will be presented to the best among 322 quality improvement initiatives.
Meanwhile, Vi Nguyệt Hồ, who founded the Việt Nam Nurses Association, will be
honoured with the devotion award for her life-long contributions to nursing.
The HMA
conference is held by the Asian Hospital Federation with a view to sharing experience
in hospital management and service improvement.
Việt Nam
hosted the HMA conference in HCM City in 2009 and Hà Nội in 2012.
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