On the 63rd Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27), the People’s Army Newspaper’s reporter had an interview with Deputy-Director of Central Military Hospital 108, Senior Colonel, Associate Professor and Doctor Le Huu Song on the hospital’s solutions to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment as well as international cooperation.
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Senior Colonel, Associate Professor and Doctor Le Huu Song |
Reporter: Could you reveal the hospital’s solutions to improve the quality of its human resources and to boost its development over the past years?
Senior Colonel, Associate Professor and Doctor Le Huu Song: To meet increasing requirements for medical examination, treatment, training and scientific research, Central Military Hospital 108 has received great supports from the Defense Ministry and invested a good deal in its infrastructural facilities and modern equipment. Besides, it has focused on human resources development, building a corps of medical doctors and experts with high expertise and good virtues as well as improving the quality of medical examination, treatment and other health services for patients.
It has so far had about 650 medical doctors, pharmacists and engineers, including over 40 professors and associate professors, 400 staff members with PhD and Master degrees as well as level-1 and level-2 specialty certificates.
To further develop its high-quality human resources, the hospital has been expanding cooperation with large domestic hospitals and medical centers, as well as advanced international medical and healthcare institutions. Accordingly, its doctors, experts and other staff members have continuously participated in both long- and short- term courses at home and overseas to accumulate modern medical knowledge and expertise.
Reporter: What are the concrete outcomes that resulted from this international cooperation?
Senior Colonel, Associate Professor and Doctor Le Huu Song: Enhancing international cooperation has been a success story of the hospital over the past years. Most of its leading medical experts and doctors have participated in training courses in foreign countries with advanced medicine, such as Russia, France, Germany, the US, Japan, Britain, Australia and Singapore.
So far, Central Military Hospital 108 has signed training agreements with leading medical universities, hospitals and institutes of more than 30 countries around the world. Thanks to this, the hospital has always acquired the world’s most modern and up-to-date medical techniques, skills and approaches in its medical examination and treatment. Its high-profile specialties include micro-surgery, cosmetic surgery, orthopedics, diagnostic methods, medical therapies for cancers, cardiovascular diseases, digestive diseases and infectious diseases. Particularly, it has successfully conducted a number of transplants of kidneys, liver, basic cells, and reproductive assistance procedures.
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Medical cadres and experts introduced to equipment for a lab of the Vietnam-Germany Medical Research Center under Central Military Hospital 108 |
Alongside promoting international cooperation to apply advanced medical therapies and approaches, it has also focused on scientific research. The hospital’s staff members have published more than 200 scientific articles on the ISI system as well as announced a large number of valuable applicable initiatives in medical examination and treatment.
Recently, the Defense Minister has permitted the hospital to invest in and establish the Vietnam-Germany Medical Research Center. The inception of the center is expected to lay a good foundation for further development of the hospital in the future.
Reporter: What is the direction for its international cooperation in the coming time?
Senior Colonel, Associate Professor and Doctor Le Huu Song: The hospital has drawn up a long-term strategic task of building a corps of high-quality medical doctors and experts for its own and contributing to developing medical resources for the whole military medical sector. In the time to come, it will review and select domestic and international partners to promote cooperation on medical research, medical technology development and medical hi-tech applications. It will closely combine treatment and scientific research; apply advanced technologies in medical examination, diagnosis and treatment; well prepare assets and forces for calamities and possible conflicts; and contribute to promoting the role of the military medicine of Vietnam as an official member of the International Committee on Military Medicine in international cooperation.
The hospital has also submitted its strategic plans on international cooperation to the Defense Ministry. Accordingly, it has suggested promoting comprehensive cooperation with Japan on medical personnel training; enhancing international medical technology transfer; increasing exchanges of medical personnel with partners; inviting foreign and Vietnamese overseas medical experts to train domestic medical personnel; and conducting scientific research on medicine and healthcare with international partners on both bilateral and multilateral platforms.
Reporter: Thank you very much!
Interviewed by Tien Dat
Translated by Thu Nguyen