The Government has just issued a decision approving the plan to arrange and reorganize hospitals under the Ministry of Health until 2025, period 2026 - 2030.
In which, by the end of 2025, Quang Nam Central General Hospital will be converted into facility 3 of Hue Central General Hospital.
This can be considered an important step forward for the health sector, bringing many benefits in medical examination and treatment in the Central region, especially for people in Quang Nam province and neighboring areas such as Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh...
Previously, many serious cases often had to be transferred to Da Nang or Hue Central Hospital (main facility) for treatment. Now, with the new model, they will have access to high-quality medical resources and modern equipment right in their locality.
Bringing the quality and standards of medical examination and treatment of a special-class hospital like Hue Central Hospital to Quang Nam will help people save time and money, while increasing the rate of timely treatment.
Next, Hue Central Hospital is not the first to implement this "expansion" model, but has gained experience from building and effectively operating a second facility in Phong Dien town (Hue city) for many years now.
The success of Hue Central Hospital's second facility, which has both reduced the burden on the main facility and "taken the lead" in providing medical examination and treatment for people in Quang Tri and Quang Binh provinces, is a "guarantee" for the success of establishing the third facility in Quang Nam.
This is also valuable experience to help Hue Central Hospital avoid repeating unnecessary mistakes, optimizing the process of organizing human resources, finance and medical equipment.
Finally, on a general level, merging inefficient local central hospitals into large, experienced hospitals will help save a lot of state resources.
On the one hand, a merger like this will help overcome the situation of scattered investment when two models exist in parallel: hospitals managed by local Departments of Health and central hospitals managed by the Ministry of Health.
On the other hand, when merging, the entire system of special-class hospitals such as Hue Central Hospital (from human resource training, medical equipment to professional processes) will be replicated, raising the quality of medical examination and treatment to a common level.
This is the key to increasing people's trust in the health sector, while reducing waste in infrastructure investment capital and medical equipment that is not used at its full capacity.
More importantly, this merger will help the people of the Central region to partly satisfy a wish that has been impossible for a long time: every patient, regardless of location, can access top-quality medical examination and treatment in the most convenient way.
