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NATIONAL
HOSPITAL OF PEDIATRICS
The National Hospital of Pediatrics (NHP) was initially
established in 1969 as the Institute for the Protection of Children's Health.
It had also been known as the Vietnam-Sweden Children’s Hospital and
the Olof Palmer Pediatric Institute prior to adopting its current name in 1997.
In 1972, the National
Hospital
of Pediatrics was
heavily damaged by bombing raids. With aid from Swedish citizens and the
Vietnamese government,
the NHP was able to begin rebuilding in 1975 and was active again by 1981.
Currently, the NHP employs 1023 staff members.
The National
Hospital
of Pediatrics was
established to follow the model of the pediatric department in the Bach
Mai
General Hospital of Hanoi. The
Ministry of Health designated the NHP as the leading pediatric department in all
of Vietnam. The NHP is the
coordinator and the top center for pediatric care in the country.
Areas of patient care include the following:
1)
Treatment
The areas of treatment in the
NHP include neurology, respiratory
diseases, malnutrition, oncology, nephrology, endocrinology, hematology,
cardiology, gastroenterology, surgery, neonatology, intensive care, emergency,
infectious disease, psychiatry, anaesthesiology, surgical recovery, traditional
East Asian medicine, out-patient examination, and physiotherapy rehabilitation,
Surgical ICU.
Each of these departments receives patients from all provinces of Northern
Vietnam, as well as some patients from Central and Southern Vietnam.
The NHP sees
on average 40,000 in-patients and
350,000 out-patients per
year. Each year, the NHP also performs about 6000 major surgical operations, including
neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, cardiac surgery, urogenital surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, and reconstructive and orthopedic
surgery. The practice of laproscopy
was initiatied in 1977, and has allowed the execution of
complicated surgeries for Hirsprung disease, ureteral duplication, diapharamatic
hermia, pericarditis, patent ductus arteriousus (PDA), etc.
Since 2004, live kidney tranplans, 2 live liver transplants and bone marrow
tranplant have been performed successfully in the NHP. With the application of new scientific technologies, the NHP has succeeded in
maintaining a decline in mortality rates during the past few years.
2)
Scientific Research
The National
Hospital
of Pediatrics is the leading research center for
pediatrics in the country. The NHP carries out research at a basic level, a
ministry level and a government level every year.
3)
Training
The National
Hospital
of Pediatrics collaborates with the pediatric
department of the Medical University of Hanoi in training medical students,
specialists, sub-specialists, general practitioners,
and MD-PhDs. With the collaboration of other international pediatric institutes,
the NHP also holds 20 to 25
 training sessions for doctors and nurses from all
over the country in an effort to provide greater knowledge to Vietnamese health
care workers.
4)
Leadership in Pediatrics
As the leading center for pediatrics, the National
Hospital
of
Pediatrics is able to offer quick, high-calibre diagnoses and treatments for Vietnamese youth.
NHP hopes to use its leading role to
decrease the mortality rate further and improve its emergency facilities
in the future.
5)
Public Health Education
The National
Hospital
of Pediatrics believes in public education of
parents early on regarding child-raising, disease and illness . The NHP promotes
public health through various forms such as through consultations, newspaper
articles, and televised presentations.
6)
International Collaborations
The
Hospital
currently holds important collaborations with Japan
International Cooperation Agency, the Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne,
the Friendship Organization ICPH
of Sweden, the American Veterans Association, REI association of the USA, and Project Vietnam
(based in United States), Dartmouth College, Samsung Medical center of Korea,
Babino GesĂº Hospital of Italia....
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Assocc.
Prof.
Nguyễn Thanh LiĂªm
Director
National Hospital
of Pediatrics
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