Encouraging Humanitarian Activities for Public Health

 

Currently, Dak Lak Department of Health is directly managing 63 units, including 5 provincial hospitals, 14 district/town/city hospitals; 15 district/town/city health centres and 184 commune/town health stations; 15 district/town/city Population-Family Planning Centres; and 12 provincial units. Of the over 4,000 health workers, 27.58 percent are undergraduates or postgraduates. The hospitals are well equipped with modern machinery. Dak Lak General Hospital can perform medical procedures such as laparoscopic surgery, limb connection, haemodialysis, etc. Thanks to good prevention policies, dangerous epidemics have been controlled.

 

Thanks to the efforts of all health workers, by the end of 2009 Dak Lak streamlined its structure, and improved human resource training, especially by linking with Hue University for specialized training level I for provincial public health; developed and put into operation the Haematology and Blood Transfusion Centre and Department of Food Safety and Hygiene. The traditional medicine hospital was upgraded to a grade II Hospital. It successfully monitored and controlled flu A (H1N1) and implemented scheme 1816 of the Ministry of Health on rotating professional staff among larger and smaller hospitals in order to improve the overall quality of health examination and treatment. It successfully organized campaigns for measles vaccine supplement for grade 1 students, and Japanese Encephalitis vaccine for children aged 1-5 years. It ensured good healthcare for regional and international conferences and workshops held in Dak Lak in 2009. It managed to achieve good hospital ratings in 17/21 facilities, 6 comprehensive excellent standard hospitals, 6 excellent standard hospitals; 100 percent surgical hospitals deployed safe surgeries and blood transfusion.

 

The province encourages humanitarian activities for public health, enhances the effectiveness of interdisciplinary collaboration in protection, care and improvement of people’s health and strengthens support for the private health system to ensure efficient service and reduce the patient load for the public health system; encourages all economic sectors to link together and open quality medical service bases. The province currently has 508 private clinics.

 

To date, 129 of 184 communes, wards, and towns meet national health standards (reaching 75.5 percent) in Dak Lak; district/ town/ city hospitals have modern diagnosis equipment. The Dak Lak health sector has sent hundreds of skilled doctors to local medical centres to help transfer technology, and improve treatment quality. This is practical support for the improvement of healthcare.

 

Despite many difficulties, the health sector has not only successfully completed tasks, but medical staff have also counselled people on self-care and disease prevention at home, significantly raising awareness among people about protection and health care for their family and themselves.

 

To achieve goals set for 2010, and 2006-2010, and to promote the achievements in 2009, the Health sector will continue to implement key tasks: to continue strengthening the health care network from provincial to basic levels; focus on the training of human resources, especially those with post graduate degrees, training through transferring new technologies; prevent epidemic diseases, especially influenza A/H1N1, SR, SXH…; organise and implement effectively projects under the National Health Objective Program to reach and exceed assigned goals; continue to invest in hospital construction in the Central Highlands from Government bond funds; build facilities for basic units; implement good health care for policy beneficiaries, poor people and children under 6 years old; implement Circular No.18/2009/TT-BYT on 14 Oct, 2009 issued by the Ministry of Health to guide infection control in medical examination and treatment bases, to continue implementing scheme 1816.
Van Luong