REHABILITATIVE PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT 

Telephone : 84.4.8343700

Email        : nip_vn@hn.vnn.vn

I. Staffing:

          The department is staffed with 18 members of which there are two doctors of philosophy, one master, 3 doctors, 9 technicians and 3 nurse-aids.

II. Development process:

The department was established in 1981 and successively headed by

1981 - 1985 : Dr. Nguyen Kim Cuc

1986 - 2002 : Dr. Tran Trong Hai PhD.

Since 2002   : Dr. Tran Thi Thu Ha PhD.

III. Assignments:

The department has since 1995 become the leading body of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine in Vietnam and the center to train rehabilitation health workers for the whole country. The department has popularized the programme on Community-Based Rehabilitation with great success.

During the period from 1981 to 1994 and 1998 to 2002, the department won the Honour Appellation "The Eminent Work Team" and in 1997 and 1999 was awards with the Merit-certificates by the Ministry of Health and by the Government respectively.

IV. Major activities:  

The department has no inpatient beds.

The annual outpatient admissions amount to 1500 fortuatment and 4000 for examination.

Patients admitted and treated largely suffer from cerebral palsy, mental retardation, sequelae of poliomyelitis, congenital bone deformities et.

The department has been cooperating closely and fruitfully with local bodies such as the Pediatric Association of Vietnam, the Neurology Association of Vietnam, the Orthopedic Societies of Hanoi and Hochiminh Cities, the medical Colleges of Hanoi, Hue and Hochiminh Cities etc., and with international organizations such as : WHO, VVAF, Holland Committee II. Rada Barnen Sweden, ICCO, Work Vision International, CRS etc. on training local health workers and doing research into the optimal management of problems in term of rehabilitative medicine.

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