HCM CITY— The Siemens Healthcare Day 2012 event was organised yesterday for the first time in HCM City to introduce the company's comprehensive portfolio of diagnostics products and solutions. With the theme, "A happier world begins with a healthier world," about 300 laboratory managers, medical technologists and hospital administrators from various medical institutions across the country attended the half-day symposium. Discussions centered on the latest breakthroughs in laboratory diagnostics, the clinical utility of Vitamin D testing and testing solutions for liver health. Along with medical imaging, clinical laboratory diagnostics helps to provide clinicians with the vital information they need in order to diagnose diseases accurately with higher confidence. — VNS … [Read more...] about Siemens rolls out healthcare diagnostics products
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Industry parks lack women’s healthcare
HAI DUONG — Deputy director of Hai Duong Department of Health, Do Thi Thanh Xuan, said more than 570 cases of abortion were reported in the province in the first six month this year, and nearly 300 of them were workers from industrial zones. But Hoang Thi Thu, head of the provincial Labour Federation's Woman Association, said that while taking care of female workers' reproductive health was important, few enterprises in the province paid much attention to it. The province now has nearly 200 industrial enterprises in the nine industrial zones – and 70 per cent of their workers are female. However, only 40 per cent of them receive gynaecology checks during their annual health review. Thu said it was difficult to arrange training courses to help the women and girls as they often worked overtime. Most healthcare information in the province was generally given in the home. She said industrial zones in the province did not have medical stations to treat or help workers and the … [Read more...] about Industry parks lack women’s healthcare
HCM City calls for more Belgian healthcare help
HCM CITY — HCM City needed further support from Belgium to help expand its healthcare system, Hua Ngoc Thuan, deputy chairman of the City People's Committee, told visiting Belgian delegation headed by Crown Prince Philippe at a meeting yesterday. Thuan said Belgium had helped HCM City improve the quality of its healthcare and the professional skills of medical personnel. "Several joint projects have been doing well, especially those involving transfer of medical knowledge." Expanding international co-operation was urgent and vital because the city was the healthcare hub of the southern region, he said. To offer the best healthcare services for residents, the city was constantly upgrading and expanding the system, but remained unable to meet the relentlessly increasing needs, he said. Nguyen Tan Binh, deputy head of the Department of Health, said since 2000 his department had received almost 1,600 foreign delegations seeking healthcare co-operation with the city. He sought … [Read more...] about HCM City calls for more Belgian healthcare help
Experts call for local healthcare rethink
HA NOI (VNS)— Medical experts have called for the healthcare system to be strengthened at grass roots levels in order to improve primary health care for people across the country. Deputy minister of health Nguyen Quang Cuong said at a workshop yesterday that people do not trust the healthcare system at community level due to weaknesses in examination and treatment quality. "That's why they go to central hospitals for treatment, which creates patient overload at these establishments and increases the expense of treatment, not only for patients but for society in general," explained Cuong. "It is necessary to consolidate the system at grassroots levels in order to better the primary healthcare," he said. Ministry of Health statistics show that at local level there are 561 district hospitals, 686 regional general medical clinics and over 111,100 communal health clinics. Over 96,500 medical staff cover communes and hamlets nation-wide. Figures suggest that around 73 per cent of … [Read more...] about Experts call for local healthcare rethink
Transparency the key to making Viet Nam healthcare affordable
William Haseltine, a former Harvard Medical School professor and founder of ACCESS Health International*, spoke to Viet Nam News about lessons that can be learned from his new book Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Healthcare Story. Why did you focus on Singapore's healthcare system in "Affordable Excellence"? Countries around the world are facing the tough issue of how their healthcare systems can cope with an increasingly ageing population at a cost they can afford. Most governments are concerned about health outcomes and ensuring the needs of their population can be met without costs spiraling. Singapore today ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes - well-ahead of many developed countries, including the United States. It spends less on healthcare than any other high-income country, both as measured by fraction of the Gross Domestic Product spent on health and by cost per person. The lessons drawn from Singapore should interest those currently planning the future of … [Read more...] about Transparency the key to making Viet Nam healthcare affordable