On August 18, Thanh Hoa Provincial Oncology Hospital said that the Provincial People's Council had decided to invest in a project to purchase an accelerated radiotherapy machine system for equipment at the hospital.
Accordingly, Thanh Hoa Oncology Hospital will be assigned as the investor of the project with the goal of completing synchronous and modern facilities and improving cancer treatment capacity for Thanh Hoa Oncology Hospital. Chemistry, meeting the people's increasing health care requirements.
The radiotherapy machine system decided to invest in is a high-dose (multi-source) radiotherapy system with linear acceleration technology for variable-dose radiotherapy; simulation tomography system and other machines and equipment in the same system.
This is a group B public investment project in the health sector with a total investment of no more than 105 billion VND from capital sources to increase revenue and save provincial budget expenditures. Capital will be 100% spent immediately upon implementation.
Equipping the radiotherapy system at Thanh Hoa Oncology Hospital will improve the hospital's medical examination and treatment capacity, ending the situation where patients have to wait for radiotherapy.
Thanh Hoa Provincial Oncology Hospital is a class 2 specialized hospital, established in July 2017. The hospital was built on a campus of more than 8 hectares, with a total investment of more than 1,000 billion VND. The hospital is responsible for examining and treating oncology for patients in the province and the North Central region.
However, since its establishment, this hospital has not been equipped with a radiotherapy system even though it is a cancer hospital. Every time radiotherapy is needed, the hospital must send the patient to use the machine of the Oncology Department of the Provincial General Hospital.
However, according to Lao Dong Newspaper's research, from 2021, when the radiotherapy machine system of Thanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital is broken, patients will have to be taken to a private hospital or transferred to another hospital for radiotherapy, which is very difficult. .
