Delegates participating in taking souvenir photos at the 4th Science and Technology conference, 2024 of Ben Tre Mental Hospital. Photo: Le De
Strengthen human resources
In April 2004, the Provincial People’s Committee issued Decision No. 2570/2004/QD-UB on the establishment of Ben Tre Mental Hospital, with the goal of providing the best mental health care for each person. In June 2009, the hospital officially went into operation, with about 50 staff. The proportion of officials with postgraduate degrees accounts for 1%, university degrees account for 14%, and the remainder have intermediate and elementary degrees. At that time, on average each day, the hospital only attracted more than 40 inpatients for treatment and nearly 100 patient visits.
During the development process, overcoming initial difficulties in personnel, the hospital has strived to perform well its examination and treatment tasks. In particular, the hospital focuses on developing high-quality human resources. In 2023, the hospital will grow with a total of 107 employees. The proportion of medical staff with postgraduate qualifications increased, accounting for 28.4%, 52% with university degrees, and nearly 19% with college degrees.
Director of Ben Tre Mental Hospital Tran Ngoc Nhan said: “To achieve quality labor, the hospital focuses on promoting human resource development. In particular, much attention is paid to training, not only sending postgraduate and university professional training but also advanced and intermediate political theory training. In addition, the hospital also provides training, education and training continuously with more than 1,000 visits.
With a fairly solid human resource, the hospital has continuously improved the quality of medical examination and treatment over the years. Paying attention to developing technical expertise, exploiting advanced techniques in diagnosis and treatment, organizing many trips to study psychiatric management models in the community, intensive pharmacological treatment, and application of the model multimodal… in countries such as Thailand, India, Taiwan…
Currently, the hospital performs most of the level 1 and level 2 specialized technical services; deployed 55/84 specialized technical services. Undeveloped techniques fall within clinical psychology and rehabilitation activities. In professional activities, the hospital has 3 main areas: multimodal inpatient treatment (chemotherapy, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, nursing care), outpatient non-drug intervention, and non-pharmacological outpatient care. Community-based mental health care. In 2024, the hospital will be ranked 2nd, ranked first among 6 provincial hospitals.
Improve the quality of medical examination and treatment
According to Director of Ben Tre Mental Hospital Tran Ngoc Nhan, 15 years is a journey of striving for the hospital to mature before the challenges and fluctuations of modern society. Officials, public employees, employees and workers always strive in all aspects to gradually meet the medical needs of people in the field of mental health care.
The hospital has built a network and quality management team, applied digital transformation in communications and built a hospital image in cyberspace; Always innovating and improving towards patient satisfaction. In addition, the hospital also pays attention to movement activities of unions, associations and volunteer activities to bring good mental values to officers, employees, workers as well as treated patients. at the hospital. Coordinate and organize communication and social work activities to mobilize resources and create a mental rehabilitation environment for patients. Through the process of treatment, care and management of inpatients, outpatients, the community, the hospital coordinates well in communication work, improving the community’s understanding of mental illness. From there, it contributes to reducing stigma and alienation for mental patients. Patients can easily integrate into society after treatment and are less likely to relapse.
Ms. LTX (Phu Nhuan commune, Ben Tre city) unfortunately has a child with delayed language development and uncontrolled behavior. With the introduction of her friends, she took her child for psychological consultation at the hospital’s Pediatrics Department. Through the guidance of doctors and nurses at the hospital and the persistent interaction of family members, the baby has improved. In the 2024 – 2025 school year, your child is ready to enter first grade to integrate with friends his age. “Thanks to the doctors’ dedicated guidance, especially their advice to interact and exercise in every way, my child’s condition has gotten better. I’m very happy,” Ms. LTX confided.
Participating in working at the Department of Pediatrics, specialist doctor I Huynh Ngoc Lan Vy shared: “When I work at the hospital, I am encouraged and given conditions to practice professionally, study and improve my skills.” and received a lot of motivation, met many colleagues, and received dedicated guidance from teachers and seniors. Seeing a lot of potential to improve patients’ health, not only is it the treatment of mental disorders but also the psychological burdens and quality of life when health is damaged.”
According to Dr. Lan Vy, practicing medicine is a never-ending learning process. In addition, it is necessary to have consensus from parents and teachers about the awareness of mental disorders in children, so that developmental disorders, learning disorders, and emotional disorders can be screened and detected early. … to intervene and treat promptly to help children and adolescents learn, develop safely and healthily.
| With tireless efforts over the past 15 years, the Ben Tre Psychiatric Hospital team and many doctors and nurses have achieved the title of excellent working group, excellent physician, and provincial-level emulation soldier… Many Individuals and hospital groups received certificates of merit from the Prime Minister; Achieving commendation titles from the Central Mental Health Care Program, Provincial Labor Confederation, Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee, Health Industry Union, Provincial Agencies and Enterprises Union… |
Phan Han – Le De
