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Around 40 percent of Vietnamese poor not receive any medical treatment

In Uncategorized on December 16, 2010 at 10:00 am

Recent scientific researches have pointed out that around 40 percent needy medical patients have not received any treatment due to several reasons, said an official in the health sector at a Vietnam International Health Economics (HEA) Conference.

 

Patients wait for their turn to pay medical fee at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Around 40 percent of needy medical patietns have not received any treament due to financial reason, said Dr. Ly Ngoc Kinh (Photo: Anh Quan)

According to Ly Ngoc Kinh, former director of the Department of Health Examination and Treatment Management, the main reason is that many face financial difficulties. He said, “Approximately 42 percent of poor people received treatment in district clinics, while only 16.9 percent of wealthy patients did”.


Duong Huy Lieu, HEA’s chairperson, said, “Around 52.5 percent of health-care costs are paid out-of-pocket by households in 2008, while 44 percent of the population in Vietnam have joined up with medical insurance companies.


Mr. Lieu said, “Health insurance only paid 17.6 percent of the medical costs of any patient and that the patients he interviewed, 33 percent said their illness has dramatically reduced their incomes.


Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong, a World Health Organization expert in Vietnam, said “Out-of-pocket health payments exacerbate poverty and approximately 3.7 percent households fall into poverty, due to medical costs in 2008”.


She also went on to say, “Poverty line families and the old are the most vulnerable with extra medical costs”.


The Vietnam International Health Economics (HEA) Conference, the first of its kind, which was jointly organized by the Vietnam Health Economics Association (VHEA) and the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, was held in Hanoi on December 7-8.


Also, in attendance to this meeting were eminent experts from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Children’s Fund, WHO and a number of non-governmental organizations.

Source: SGGP

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Standard Chartered Bank offers medical glasses to students

In Uncategorized on November 5, 2010 at 11:21 am

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Sinus infections nothing to sniff at, say medical experts

In Uncategorized on October 14, 2010 at 6:32 pm




Sinus infections nothing to sniff at, say medical experts


QĐND – Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 20:29 (GMT+7)

People’s awareness of respiratory health remains low and most do not take nasal hygiene seriously, medical experts said at a press meeting held in HCM City on Oct. 12 to unveil a programme titled Respiratory Health Care Month.

The programme will be organised by the HCM City Respiratory Society, Community Health Care Centre, and Merap Group from November 7 to December 7.

It will provide check-ups and counselling for respiratory health at a camp held at Le Van Tam Park in district 1 and wholesale markets around the city on November 7 as well at industrial and export processing zones in the city and Hanoi.

Volunteers will hand out brochures on respiratory health care in apartments and office buildings.

Dr Nguyen Huu Dung of the HCM City University Medical Centre’s Ear-Nose-Throat Ward said the programme would help improve awareness of nasal hygiene and prevent respiratory tract infections like allergic rhinitis.

Speaking at the meeting, Dr Le Thi Tuyet Lan, chairwoman of the HCM City Respiratory Society, said “nasal hygiene and protection is very important to avoid respiratory diseases, especially allergic rhinitis.”

The incidence of allergic rhinitis has risen in Vietnam, especially in large cities, in recent years because of increasing environmental pollution due to urbanisation and industrialisation, she said.
“Many people with the condition do not care to get themselves treated because they do not realise it could lead to asthma,” she said.

The HCM City University Medical Centre’s studies show that a third of them will get asthma without timely treatment.

“Eighty percent of asthma patients, in turn, get allergic rhinitis,” she added.


Source: VNA


Source: QDND

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Medical workers raise quality of treatment, healthcare through movements: Health Minister

In Uncategorized on October 14, 2010 at 2:51 pm

Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu said medical workers have raised quality of treatment and healthcare through joining actively in movements such as studying and following President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example, good doctors are also nice mothers of patients, doctors and nurses work following Uncle Ho’s teaching.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and Doan Thi Ngoc Tram, mother of Dang Thuy Tram, a North Vietnamese surgeon, who was killed during a battle in northern South Vietnam in 1970

Mr. Trieu said this at an annual meeting to review movements among medical workers held by the Ministry of Health on Sep 28 in Hanoi.


The highlight of these movements is that epidemic prevention is conducted actively and effectively. Dangerous diseases like cholera, plague and malaria are under control.


Thanks to good vaccination campaign, infectious diseases in kids like measles, diphtheria, whooping cough and Japan encephalitis have reduced by over 10 percent compared to before.


In addition, the project to send doctors of the central hospitals to rural infirmaries to transfer high techniques to their countryside counterparts helped to reduce 30 percent of pressures on city hospitals and improve healthcare quality in distant regions.


Mothers and children healthcare has been better, contributing greatly to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).


Mr. Trieu emphasized the sector will focus on decreasing the rate of patients suffering from diseases and deaths as well as improve gender quality and healthcare system.


Attending the event were Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and exemplary doctors in the country.

Source: SGGP

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Exemption of medical fee for quarantined patients

In Uncategorized on October 14, 2010 at 2:50 pm

Patients and medical workers in the quarantine area. Those are kept in quarantine will nto pay hospital fee under a new law

Those who are quarantined because they are contracted an infectious disease, they will enjoy exemption from medical charge, according to a new law issued by Vietnamese government.


Patients who are kept in quarantine in medical clinics will not pay medical fee during 21 days and two days if they are kept in border crossings; however, the new law will not benefit those who are put in quarantine at homes.


In addition, if quarantined patients suffer additional diseases, they must pay examination and treatment charges. But the insurance company will reimburse medical fee for health insurance card holders.

Source: SGGP

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Most communes in distant areas to have medical centers: MOH

In Uncategorized on August 18, 2010 at 11:21 am

The Ministry of Health (MOH) promised most of communes in distant regions have medical clinics, equipment and personnel in the next five years.

A medical center in district Vinh Cuu in the southern province of Dong Nai. MOH promises to build more hospitals in communes in distant regions

MOH made the pledge at the 20th congress of party committee in Hanoi on August 17 with the participation of To Huy Rua, Politburo member and head of the Party Central Committee Commission for Propaganda and Education.


The ministry said it will focus on developing healthcare system and raise medical service quality.


It will also strengthen social contribution to the sector including building district hospitals and upgrading provincial and central clinics.


Moreover, more hi-tech hospitals will be constructed in the capital Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and densely – populated regions.


 

Source: SGGP

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Only 350 medical techniques, services to suffer soaring prices: MOH

In Uncategorized on July 21, 2010 at 11:15 pm

Of 3,000 medical techniques and services, only around 350 would have their fees soar, said Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MOH) at a press conference on July 20, in response to public outcry over the recently proposed draft on hospital fee increases.

If new draft on hospital fee increases approved, it would be burden for 14.7 million disadvantaged people whose monthly income is  meager

MOH said hospital fee adjustments have excluded machinery depreciation, staff wages and training expenditures.


However, the prices of examinations and sickbeds will see the highest increase in rates. For instance, the price of clinical exams will rise from VND3,000 to VND30,000. Meanwhile, patients will have to pay VND100,000 –VND150,000 per day for normal or first class sickbeds, as opposed to the current price of just VND4,000 and VND18,000.


The Ministry alleged that it would not affect many residents, citing that 62 percent of the country’s population has health insurance cards and the number of insured people continues to rise.


The new draft would badly affect 14.7 million people, mostly low income laborers, farmers, ethnic minorities and those suffering from chronic and incurable health conditions, who have bought insurance voluntarily. This group of people would be burdened by increases in the five to 20 percent fee they are accustomed to paying, because their monthly income is meager.

Source: SGGP

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Vietnamese medical herbs need more oversight

In Uncategorized on July 15, 2010 at 1:06 pm

Vietnam imports over 85 percent of its medicinal ingredients and herbs to produce medicines; despite the country being home to various kinds of medicinal plants, reports Drug Administration of Vietnam.

A farmer in Long Khanh, the southern province of Dong Nai, harvests Linhchi mushroom

“Vietnam currently has 3,800 medicinal plants that can produce medicines, with the World Health Organization confirming that the country is home to 200 precious medicinal herbs,” said Health Deputy Minister Cao Minh Quang.


The country annually produces some 3,000-5,000 tons of medicinal materials.


However, Quang said, the exploitation, production and trade of the medicinal materials had yet to take advantage of domestic resources.


According to health ministry statistics, there are over 300 units producing medicines from domestic materials, but only 10 of them meet the WHO’s Good Manufacturing


Practices – part of a system covering the manufacture and testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, diagnostics, pharmaceutical products and medical devices.


He added over-exploitation had caused the loss of some domestic materials that had been unique to Vietnam.


For example, the vang dang plant (coscinium fenestratum) was widely found in central Binh Phuoc province’s Phuoc Long district a few years ago but now could hardly be seen after being over harvested.


Medicinal herbs in Vietnam were mainly grown, processed and traded by private businesses, making it difficult to meet standards, Quang said.


The administration also warned about quality of the medicinal materials when most of the materials were illegally imported.


Domestic pharmaceutical producers wanted to reduce production costs by purchasing domestic medicinal materials but faced insufficient supply, said Nguyen Tien Hung, general director of Medical Products Import Export Joint Stocks Company.


He said it was necessary to offer incentives for growing, processing and using medical herbs. Relevant authorities needed to improve their management of medicinal plant growing and trading.

Source: SGGP

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Vietnamese medical herbs need more oversight

In Uncategorized on July 15, 2010 at 9:00 am




Vietnamese medical herbs need more oversight


QĐND – Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 21:0 (GMT+7)

Vietnam imports over 85 percent of its medicinal ingredients and herbs to produce medicines; despite the country being home to various kinds of medicinal plants, reports Drug Administration of Vietnam.


“Vietnam currently has 3,800 medicinal plants that can produce medicines, with the World Health Organisation confirming that the country is home to 200 precious medicinal herbs,” said Health Deputy Minister Cao Minh Quang.


The country annually produces some 3,000-5,000 tonnes of medicinal materials.


However, Quang said, the exploitation, production and trade of the medicinal materials had yet to take advantage of domestic resources.


According to health ministry statistics, there are over 300 units producing medicines from domestic materials, but only 10 of them meet the WHO’s Good Manufacturing


Practices – part of a system covering the manufacture and testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, diagnostics, pharmaceutical products and medical devices.


He added over-exploitation had caused the loss of some domestic materials that had been unique to Vietnam.


For example, the vang dang plant (coscinium fenestratum) was widely found in central Binh Phuoc province’s Phuoc Long district a few years ago but now could hardly be seen after being over harvested.


Medicinal herbs in Vietnam were mainly grown, processed and traded by private businesses, making it difficult to meet standards, Quang said.


The administration also warned about quality of the medicinal materials when most of the materials were illegally imported.


Domestic pharmaceutical producers wanted to reduce production costs by purchasing domestic medicinal materials but faced insufficient supply, said Nguyen Tien Hung, general director of Medical Products Import Export Joint Stocks Company.


He said it was necessary to offer incentives for growing, processing and using medical herbs. Relevant authorities needed to improve their management of medicinal plant growing and trading.


Source: VNA


Source: QDND

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New Airbus plane delivered to Vietnam Airlines with medical aid

In Uncategorized on June 3, 2010 at 2:04 am

A new Airbus A321 plane landed in Hanoi Wednesday and was handed over to national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, which has ordered a total of 41 of this aircraft type.


The plane, the 17th A321 delivered to the airline from this order, carried medical equipment provided as aid by the Airbus Corporate Foundation from Germany’s Hamburg for those in need in the Asian country.

Workers at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport unload European-donated medical equipment from Vietnam Airlines’ newest Airbus A321 aircraft after its landing on May 2, 2010 (Photo: Minh Chuyen)

The shipment was 3.8 tons of medical equipment for dialysis, including 12 generators, two video screens, catheters, and appliances and spares donated by the Purpan Hospital in Toulouse, France.


The Airbus Corporate Foundation works in partnership with non governmental organizations regularly using Airbus aircraft to provide aid to countries and communities which have been affected by natural disasters or are in need.


The new Vietnam Airlines aircraft left the Airbus final assembly line Tuesday in Hamburg, where it had been loaded with the donated goods by Airbus staff, said an Airbus statement seen Wednesday.


The equipment will be transferred to the Hanoi Hospital of Nephrology and Dialysis where it will be used to treat patients suffering from chronic kidney failure.


“The Airbus Corporate Foundation together with Vietnam Airlines identified this flight as an opportunity to donate some medical equipment that was awaiting shipment to Hanoi,” Tom Enders, President of the Airbus Corporate Foundation and President and CEO of Airbus, said in the statement.
 
“I would like to thank all our partners and the employees involved in this project,” he added.


The European aircraft maker has in recent years built up a global network of airlines and relief organizations to support international humanitarian help. Ferry flights of new aircraft have been used on numerous occasions to transport goods all over the world.


Established in December 2008, the Airbus Corporate Foundation aims at facilitating charitable activities worldwide under one roof within an international network of employees, associations and international organizations, the leading aircraft manufacturer says.

Vietnam Airlines announced on the weekend it would add 826 flights to its major domestic routes this summer as travel demand is expected to surge sharply.


Over the next three months the airline will increase its flights linking Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Danang by between 10-14 percent. It will also increase flight frequency to key tourist destinations like Nha Trang, Hue and Phu Quoc.


The national flag carrier currently operates 35 domestic routes. It is targeting an 18 percent increase in the number of passengers it transports this year as well as a 30 percent increase in revenue over 2009 to VND32 trillion.

Source: SGGP