Attracting Talents to Improve Healthcare Quality

Mr Nguyen Van Thang, Director of Tra Vinh Health Department, said, defining that improving people's healthcare quality is a key task, the Department of Health has directed its subordinate units to seriously apply synchronous solutions, strengthen medical networks, especially medical facilities, diversify medical services, research and apply new technologies, invest to upgrade medical equipment, especially high-tech apparatuses, and develop health worker force in both quality and quantity. Till now, all hospitals in the province have their facilities newly built or expanded. Eight out of 10 hospitals have managed to resolve overcrowding.

 

Particularly, to raise ethics and professional qualifications of health workers, the health sector frequently examines and supervises the compliance to professional regulations prescribed by the State, the industry and working units. Whenever it finds out acts of violations like administrative procedures, contacts with patients and behaviours to patients, it will strictly handle to end the recurrence. In addition, the sector applies many measures to develop health human resources. Each year, it spends average VND6 million for specialised training. As a result, the quality of physician force has been significantly improved. To date, over 50 percent of doctors have finished postgraduate education while all nursing staff, including nurses, midwives and technicians graduate from colleges and universities.

 

Health programmes are carried out as schedule and achieve significant successes, especially preventive medicine, universal immunisation, family planning, maternal health and child health protection. Epidemics and food poisoning are kept under control.

 

Although the human resource training is strongly invested, the health sector always falls short of doctors to meet the demand. To address this shortfall, the province issued a project to attract and recruit doctors from 2013 to 2020.

 

According to the project, the province will fully finance full-time doctor training and support medical students with VND10 million a year each. Graduated doctors will be assigned to work in medical units across the province, presented VND20 million each, and provided shelters.

 

Voluntary doctors will be granted VND50 million each if they work at province-level clinics, VND60 million if they work for district-level clinics and VND70 million if they work for commune-level medical stations. They are also provided housing.

 

Mr Thang said, "With this project, the health sector will create and provide the best conditions for recruiting and assigning doctors to improve health service in Tra Vinh province.”