City eyes autonomy route to improve hospitals
By 2020 HCM City’s public hospitals will no longer be overloaded and people will have access to high-quality healthcare, city officials promise. The entire healthcare sector will become a high-quality service industry by then, contributing significantly to the city’s socio-economic growth, Nguyễn Tấn Bỉnh, director of the local Department of Health, said. To achieve this target, greater autonomy would be provided to public hospitals, reducing the financial pressure on the government, he told a meeting with city leaders last week. Eighty two hospitals have been granted autonomy since the city began implementing this policy in 2006, he said.
