First ward-level clinic with 17 specialist doctors in HCM City
First commune-level clinic with 17 specialist doctors in HCM City
The medical centre of Thao Dien ward in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, has become the first of its kind in Vietnam to have 17 specialist doctors when a satellite consulting room of the district’s hospital was opened there on August 8.
A doctor gives advice to an elderly women at the medical centre of Thao Dien ward (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The medical centre ofThao Dien ward in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, has become the first of itskind in Vietnam to have 17 specialist doctors when a satellite consulting roomof the district’s hospital was opened there on August 8.
The facility is able to give check-up to morethan 300 patients each day. Its doctors specialise in emergency aid, internalmedicine, surgery, paediatrics, odonto-stomatology, otolaryngology,ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, and traditionalmedicine.
Aside from the high-quality staff, the consultingroom is also equipped with modern equipment, Director of the District 2Hospital Tran Van Khanh said, adding that people who come to the clinic willreceive similar examinations as at his hospital.
The District 2 Hospital has invested 10 billionVND (over 430,300 USD) in developing the satellite consulting room, whichinitially focuses on basic examination and treatment activities and epidemicprevention. In the future, the hospital will develop it into a specialistconsulting room with high techniques and low cost.
Tang Chi Thuong, Deputy Director of the HCM CityHealth Department, said opening satellite consulting rooms at local medicalcentres is one of the solutions to reduce the overload at higher-levelhospitals while making use of the clinics’ facilities and staff. It will alsohelp improve people’s trust in the grassroots healthcare network.
Before the District 2 Hospital, the hospitals ofThu Duc and Tan Phu districts also opened consulting rooms at local clinics,but these facilities are on a small scale and do not have as many specialistdoctors as the Thao Dien ward medical centre.-VNA
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A doctor gives advice to an elderly women at the medical centre of Thao Dien ward (Photo: VNA) 
