Recommend handling of prescriptions that risk the patient’s life
At the end of February, Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan sent an official dispatch to hospitals under the Ministry of Health and universities; Health Departments of 63 provinces and cities and relevant Ministries and branches will strengthen inspection and supervision of prescriptions and indications in medical examination and treatment for patients.
In particular, the Ministry of Health requires leaders of units to direct, strengthen inspection and supervision of compliance with drug prescription regulations at medical examination and treatment facilities. At the same time, review, detect, rectify and handle promptly Negative behaviors in prescribing drugsassigning medical techniques and services to get “commissions”, causing trouble for patients in order to profit from the patients as well as the Health Insurance Fund.
According to MA readers, many people consider writing to be just a very small, trivial issue among the countless problems of the medical profession. But the medical industry is innovating every day, with so many world-class technologies and techniques being implemented by Vietnamese doctors, why can’t even the smallest thing, the prescription, change? This reader believes that the hospital should monitor and handle by example the fact that doctors intentionally or have the habit of handwriting prescriptions (not to mention very bad handwriting), in order to prevent possible negative behavior (such as enjoy “commission”).
“Many people consider ‘bad doctor’s handwriting’ to be a matter of course, so doctors have no motivation to fix it. But as society develops, district health care can still transform digitally, so why do we still accept an outdated thing like prescriptions?” Manual prescriptions at the Central Hospital? What can be translated, but prescriptions cannot be translated, interpreted, or guessed. Scribbled prescriptions will be a riddle for people’s lives. Which hospital, which doctor? As for this situation, we must deal with it thoroughly,” commented MA reader.
Hai Anh