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According to the statistics made by Dong Nai Department of Public
Health, Dong Nai province currently has 19 general hospitals with 3,720 patient
beds, of which 2,890 beds in province-level hospitals and 680 beds in
district-level ones, and an average of 3.6 doctors/ten thousand people which is
equivalent to a half of the national average. The patient overload has mainly
occurred in province-level hospitals (General Hospital of Dong Nai Province,
Thong Nhat General Hospital, and Children Hospital), this influences much on the
health check-up and treatment quality. At the seminar, the findings revealed in
reports has shown that the reason of hospital overload came from unsynchronous
investment in infrastructure construction (existing hospitals are being
downgraded, and these small-scale hospitals have to provide health services for
a great number of patients, exceeding its design capacity of 2-3 times); another
reason is that most patients prefer to come to province-level hospitals for
safer treatment though their health conditions are not serious; and the last one
is due to strong development of industrial zones which attracts the flood of
laborers from other places to live and work in the southern province of Dong Nai.
At the seminar, some solutions were also mentioned
as follows: rearranging patient beds for the time being, investing in
infrastructure construction in the long-term period, especially
non-State owned hospitals; investing in both health
facilities and medical workers; on the other hand, the public health needs to
have policies attracting human resources in line with training programs for
medical workers in localities; boosting the socialization of health activities;
creating favorable conditions for medical workers to serve patients outside
their office hours.
Reported by Thanh Canh,
Translated by Minh Minh