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16/04/2021 09:00 GMT+7
More than 200 workers at Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital, the country’s leading hospital, have resigned from their posts. Some practitioners said they had left because of unreasonable changes in management.
Prof Nguyen Quang Tuan, director of Bach Mai Hospital, has confirmed that 221 staffers have resigned from their posts or have been asked to leave under a staff streamlining campaign. Of these, there are 28 doctors, including one associate professor and 10 practitioners with doctorates.
Explaining the mass departure, the hospital has given four reasons: a staff streamlining campaign, decrease in income because of Covid-19, stress after scandals related to a new policy, and pressure from innovation.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 17:36 GMT+7
A building of Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, a central-level facility managed by the Ministry of Health. Photo: Lan Anh / Tuoi Tre
Some 221 practitioners and staffers of Hanoi’s Bach Mai Hospital, one of the largest public health facilities in Vietnam, have turned in their resignation over the past year.
Discussing this issue with
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, Nguyen Quang Tuan, director of Bach Mai Hospital, confirmed the mass departure.
Some are highly qualified medical workers who switched to better paying jobs, while a majority are less skilled staffers who became dissatisfied with the hospital’s decision to go fully self-funded instead of relying on state subsidies, or displeased at their job rotation at the facility, Tuan said.
Hospitals struggling for autonomy
09/04/2021 06:42 GMT+7
Adding to the challenges brought forward last year, a lack of hospital fee increases in 2021 could put top-tier public hospitals in a war of nerves as they attempt to obtain autonomy.
Bach Mai Hospital decided against introducing new fees after a rebuke from the MoH.
Taking over 60 minutes to transport her father from the northern province of Thai Binh to Bach Mai Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Vietnam, in early March to test for epithelial cancer, Hang Pham stressed when hearing about possible increases in hospital fees there.
“I was worried when relatives of other patients told me that the hospital was going to increase some customised examination and treatment service fees from early April. My family is not rich enough to afford the increase,” she told VIR in tears. “If my father has cancer, my family would face financial pressu
Hospitals struggling for autonomy
Bach Mai Hospital decided against introducing new fees after a rebuke from the MoH
Taking over 60 minutes to transport her father from the northern province of Thai Binh to Bach Mai Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Vietnam, in early March to test for epithelial cancer, Hang Pham stressed when hearing about possible increases in hospital fees there.
âI was worried when relatives of other patients told me that the hospital was going to increase some customised examination and treatment service fees from early April. My family is not rich enough to afford the increase,â she told VIR in tears. âIf my father has cancer, my family would face financial pressure.â
Update: March, 08/2021 - 07:42 | Associate Professor Trương Thanh Hương speak with a foreign colleague at work. Photo suckhoedoisong.vn HÀ NỘI Associate Professor Trương Thanh Hương, senior lecturer at the Hà Nội Medical University and expert at the Việt Nam National Heart Institute under Bạch Mai Hospital, has been given Việt Nam’s 2020 Kovalevskaya Award for her contribution to helping thousands of people with cardiovascular diseases over many years. Hương is one of the country s leading medical experts, with many scientific works published. Hương has conducted many studies related to congenital and genetic cardiovascular diseases, genetic pharmacology in individualising treatment of cardiovascular disease and development of new technologies in echocardiography. She has also chaired 19 scientific studies and published 75 scientific articles in domestic and international journals so far.