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N.A. Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue visiting a patients in the hospital |
Addressing the event, Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue described the job of health workers as one of the few with high requirements for both morality and specialized capacity, adding it is a particularly noble job honored by the Party, State, and people.
He highlighted the country's proud healthcare achievements, including the considerably improved stature of the Vietnamese people, the average life expectancy higher than the global average and that in many countries with the same income level, the medical service coverage larger than the Southeast Asian and global averages.
The top legislator stressed the successful production of most vaccines used in the expanded vaccination program, the successful application of many new techniques and high technologies, and especially the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last three years.
He also highly valued the activeness, creativity, and dedication of the staff of Military Central Hospital 108 in caring for not only senior officials of the Party, State, and military but also for the poor and residents in border and island areas.
The hospital is currently one of the biggest centers for tissue and organ transplantation in Vietnam.
Setting several tasks for the hospital, the top legislator affirmed that ministries, central agencies, Party committees, administrations, and the entire political system will continue standing side-by-side with the health sector by quickly overhauling policies and laws and tackling obstacles and difficulties, thus creating the best possible conditions for public health care and fundamental and breakthrough improvements to the sector to be made.
The N.A. Chairman wished and believed that Military Central Hospital 108 will further develop, deserving to be a leading modern medical center of the military and the medical sector of the country.
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N.A. Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue congratulating Military Central Hospital 108 on Vietnamese Doctors' Day |
On this occasion, the N.A. Chairman visited and offered encouragement to health workers and patients at departments of the hospital.
Sixty-eight years ago, on February 27, 1955, President Ho Chi Minh sent a letter to a conference of medical workers, asking the sector to stay united, sincerely care for patients, and develop the country’s health sector. Since then, the date February 27 has become the sector’s traditional day.
Translated by Chung Anh