According to a report at the conference, the army has 30 hospitals, research institutes and several military-civilian hospitals with more than 60,000 nurses in total.
Gen. Binh addressing the conference
Over the past 71 years of development, the military medical sector has greatly contributed to the care for troops’ and people’s health.
In his speech, Major General Vu Quoc Binh, Director of the Department of Military Medicine, emphasized the important role of nurses. In wartime, they were present at combat hotspots, underwent sacrifices to give timely treatment to sick and wounded soldiers, so that these troops could be able to continue fighting against the enemy. Numerous nurses sacrificed themselves and devoted their lives to the national protection cause. Some have been presented with noble awards by the State and Army.
Gen. Binh also highlighted nurses’ role in peacetime, especially in improving treatment quality, reducing complications and fatalities, shorten treatment time and lowering treatment cost. Nurses have left deep impression on patients, contributing to promoting people’s trust in military doctors in particular and in the military medical sector in general.
The conference heard 71 reports from 27 military hospitals and four reports from civilian ones. Those reports fully reflected 12 nurses’ tasks involving in management, treatment, and training. Some reports focused on such fields of much concern as management to improve treatment quality, patients’ safety, control of bacterial contamination, communication skills and patients’ satisfaction.
Concluding the conference, Gen. Binh said that the conference gave a general view on nursing in military hospitals and each hospital’s attention on this work.
He hoped nurses will learn more about from the conference and the awareness of nursing will be raised to help better the quality of diagnosis and treatment for patients.
Translated by Mai Huong