Hanoi (VNA) – Dean of the Department of Services at the request of the University Hospital of Hanoi and specialist in ENT (otolaryngology), Pham Thi Bich Dào is the author of the project “The satellite hospitals of the districts”. The latter consists of transferring the necessary medical technologies to health establishments at the district level, enabling them to optimize the quality of care and relieve congestion in large hospitals.
“I want to save lives, but I was really hesitant to become a doctor, because of anatomy classes. During my first years of medicine, after a course in the morgue, I had nightmares about it. I I even thought about changing schools,” says Bich Dào.
For Pham Thi Bich Dào, it was the profession that chose her. The shy and fearful young student of yesterday is today a competent and respectable specialist for her colleagues. She is behind the “District satellite hospitals” project, which has enabled a large number of patients to benefit from quality health services without having to travel to the big cities.
In 2015, many satellite hospital projects had been set up but their success was mixed. After analyzing the weaknesses of these models, Bich Dào created his own project.
“It was essential to improve the skills of doctors and nurses in hospitals in each district. And to achieve this, it was necessary to send experts working in large hospitals to district hospitals to directly transfer technology to local staff,” she explains.
To verify the effectiveness of his project, Bich Dào and his colleagues visited many local health facilities, including Muong Khuong district hospital in the province of Lào Cai.
“Before, very few patients went to Muong Khuong hospital for treatment. We only received around a hundred patients a day. But since it became a satellite of the Hanoi University Hospital, this figure increased to 600 people per day. Residents’ confidence in the quality of services has improved significantly,” she notes.
Le diagnostic à distance via l’application TeleHealth. Photo: VOVThis success has therefore made it possible to multiply this model in other localities. During the period of social distancing imposed by the covid crisis, district satellite hospitals have proven their advantage and efficiency. Patients who contracted the virus were able to benefit from effective care close to home.
“An old patient had pneumonia and had a pleural effusion. In the past, Muong Khuong hospital would have been unable to treat this kind of case and it would have taken 6 hours by road to transfer the patient to Hanoi But thanks to the implementation of tele-consultation, the doctors of Muong Khuong were able to intervene. The patient was treated and he was able to return home after a week. Once he was fully recovered , he even came back to the hospital to thank us”, says Bich Dào.
Associate professor and doctor at the University Hospital of Hanoi, Bich Dào also teaches at the University of Medicine. She willingly shares all her knowledge acquired over the past 25 years with future doctors.
“I want to pass on my enthusiasm for this profession to students. If I pass on my knowledge and my passion to them, they will be able to go to the most remote regions to save a large number of lives”, she shares.
For Bich Dào, patient satisfaction and happiness are his greatest motivation for exercising this noble profession. – VOV/VNA
