Vietnamese medicine has

Despite the 'hands' to the high level of medical examination and treatment under modern medicine, the medical and pharmaceutical background of Vietnam has not been adequately invested.

'Touching' the world medicine level .

Deputy Minister of Health Pham Thi Kim Tien said that in the past 5 years, the program of "Research, development and application of technology for the protection, care and improvement of public health " (KC.10 / 06- 10) has brought many research results that have been applied to medical examination and treatment. Some applications of the topic have reached the world medical level such as organ transplantation, stem cells.

Heart transplant surgery at BV 103 of KC.10 Program (Photo: N.Hanh ).

Typically, the red cell panel production project has created a revolution in blood transfusion safety in the country. This product has a screening effect of 8 blood groups and identifies 20 antigens to ensure blood transfusion safety as well as avoiding the risk of transfusions many times.

Every year, Vietnam has more than 4,000 patients needing coronary intervention, if patients want to do this technique, they must go abroad for treatment at a cost of up to VND 100 million. However, the scientific topic 'Research on occlusion, coronary artery stenosis after intervention and measures to limit' of GS. Pham Gia Khai, chairman of Vietnam Heart Association , helped patients only spend an amount of VND 50 million to be treated in the country.

GS. Pham Gia Khai shared that, thanks to the success of the project, 200 billion VND has been saved.

Still a small investment .

GS. Dr. Pham Gia Khanh shared that the current financial mechanism for medical and pharmaceutical research is not reasonable. Therefore, it is difficult to avoid the status of projects and projects that cannot be of high quality when the investment is inadequate.

With an expense of 110 billion VND (1.2 million USD), on average, the topics and projects must be 'divided' about 22 billion VND / 1 year. This figure is not equal to 1% of the investment in scientific research and technological development of an average US university.

Moreover, the project chairpersons must have autonomy and self-responsibility for topics with auditing expenses. Currently, in Vietnam, there are almost no units that can provide all kinds of chemicals when the bidding package reaches several hundred million dong.

Accordingly, the preservation of chemical supplies is also difficult when bidding to buy all topics and projects, excluding some expired chemicals when the storage time is too long.

Therefore, it is necessary to fundamentally change the regulations on procurement of supplies and equipment for research in a simple and proactive manner for chairing projects and projects.

Deputy Minister of Health , Ms. Pham Thi Kim Tien frankly acknowledged, besides the successes achieved, research in medicine and pharmacy in the last 5 years still has many things to discuss. Every year, about 10,000 people suffer from traffic accidents and hundreds of brain deaths, but the number of donors and organ transplants is small each year.

According to the Vice Minister, it is essential to establish an organ transplant or a center for organ transplantation or transplantation or association. Besides, the allocation of topics among regions and regions is still unreasonable. The majority of state-level research projects are concentrated in the North.

These are issues that need to be adjusted in the next research period to study medicine and pharmacy to really fulfill the responsibility of protecting, caring and improving the health of people.

KC.10 / 06-10 State-level key science and technology program approved by the Minister of Science and Technology under Decision 2028 / QD-BKHCN dated September 13, 2006. Over the past 5 years, the Program has successfully implemented organ transplant and vascular intervention techniques; Many modern molecular biology techniques have been applied in diagnosis and treatment of diseases .

Only 3 topics and projects are counted: KC.10.13 / 06-10 (Anti-recurrence of coronary artery stenosis after intervention), KC.10.03 / 06-10 (Production of Rota vaccine to prevent diarrhea for children) and KC.10.DA.04 // 06-10 (Production of lyophilized injections Methylprednisolon sodium succinat) has benefited the State more than VND 400 billion per year.