Not to mention "no-name" lower-level or higher-level hospitals , even top hospitals like Cho Ray - Ho Chi Minh City do not have enough medical supplies to treat patients. In some hospitals, patients have to manage on their own, go out to buy needles, and before entering the operating room, family members have to buy medical supplies so that the doctor is qualified to operate.
Let's ask, if a hospital doesn't have needles and patients have to go out to buy them, is it worthy to be called a hospital? Not to mention, patients go to buy medicine and medical supplies at outside stores, no one dares to guarantee the quality.
Rather, all drugs and medical supplies must be provided by the hospital, ensuring quality and reasonable prices for patients to feel secure. Doctors only focus on their expertise, not worrying about patients when they encounter shortages of drugs and medical supplies. Not to mention, there are many cases where patients are in critical condition and need medicine and supplies for timely treatment, but if they don't have enough, they will lose the chance to save their lives, or the disease will get worse. As a doctor, knowing that a patient can be saved but is helpless due to lack of medicine is a pain in the profession.
The Ministry of Health has sent a document to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities on ensuring drugs, medical supplies, and medical equipment to serve medical examination and treatment, but in reality from the grassroots, that is. There is no guarantee as directed by the health sector.
Reality shows that it is not that hospitals do not want to be fully equipped with drugs, medical supplies, and modern machinery, but there are still many problems that cannot be resolved quickly.
Recently, there have been many new regulations, partly removing obstacles in bidding, hospitals have been more aggressive in purchasing, but it is still not completely smooth. The difficulty for policy makers is not to create difficulties when applying policies to life. If there are still institutional and regulatory barriers that prevent medical facilities from procuring medicine and medical supplies, then the fault does not lie with the hospital directors, but rather with the responsibility. of the Ministry of Health.
Only when the regulatory system is complete and appropriate will the responsibility of hospital leaders be handled when shortages of drugs, chemicals, testing supplies, medical equipment and related services occur.
