HCMC vice chairman Hua Ngoc Thuan said many hospitals in the city have had advanced equipment, international-standard facilities and experienced doctors, but they are unable to meet requirements to examine foreigners, especially those using international health insurance.
Many foreigners work and live in Vietnam, but even the top hospitals in the country have not met the criteria to provide health check-ups for them.
The HCMC Medicine and Pharmacy University has opened a faculty to offer courses within two years for 20 doctors to get Master’s degrees and further skills, including English to examine and treat foreigners.
The city government suggested that the Ministry of Health quickly deploy a public- private partnership format to connect People’s Hospital 115 with the HoaLam-Shangri-La International Hi-tech Healthcare Park, invested and developed by Hoa Lam-Shangri-La Healthcare Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Vietnam’s Hoa Lam Corporation and Singapore’s Shangri-La Healthcare Investment Pte. Ltd.
The city also asked the ministry to allow doctors at public hospitals to collaborate with and work for private hospitals during office hours.
In HCMC, People’s Hospital 115 has met all the conditions to operate as the first special hospital in the city.
According to Circular 23/2005/TT-BYT issued in 2005, a special hospital must be a leading hospital fulfilling the criteria for medical functions, staff, management, department organization and scale, infrastructure and facilities equipped with advanced technologies.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
