Attending the conference were Prof. Dr. Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phan Thi Thu Huong, Chairwoman of the Council of the Hanoi Medical University; Nguyen Dinh Viet, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, and head of the provincial delegation to the National Assembly Delegation, along with leaders of several provincial departments and 600 delegates from departments of health, health centres, and general hospitals across 36 provinces and cities nationwide.

In his opening speech, Viet expressed sincere thanks to the Hanoi Medical University Hospital for choosing Moc Chau as the host location for the conference. He emphasised that, through the satellite hospital project, hospitals in Son La province have received strong support in terms of professional guidance, technology transfer, and personnel training from central-level hospitals, including the Hanoi Medical University Hospital.

This support has contributed to gradually improving the quality of medical examinations and treatment, reducing unnecessary patient transfers, saving time and costs for patients, and easing the burden on central hospitals — all aligned with the goal of “treating patients effectively at the grassroots level.”

He also expressed his hope that healthcare professionals would use the conference to share experiences and propose practical solutions to improve primary healthcare services.

During the conference, participants discussed several key topics, including reconstructive techniques for soft tissue defects in fingers using local flaps; results from applying Tele-ICU in emergency and intensive care support for grassroots hospitals from 2021 to 2025; valuating the effectiveness of chest CT versus X-ray in diagnosing community-acquired pneumonia at district-level hospitals; awareness of stroke among patients with chronic diseases; postpartum hemorrhage and a proposal to implement an “instant blood donation bank”; the current state of primary healthcare quality and proposed organisational and technical solutions.

Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan stated that the satellite hospital project is one of the strategic solutions to improving the quality of grassroots healthcare. The project has achieved encouraging results, with hundreds of advanced medical techniques successfully transferred and thousands of local healthcare workers professionally trained. As a result, public trust in local healthcare services has been significantly strengthened.

He called on localities to take a more proactive role in strengthening primary healthcare, from human resource planning and infrastructure investment to better coordination mechanisms with central-level medical institutions. He urged medical training institutions to continue innovating their curricula to align with the real needs of local health systems and to promote volunteer movements such as “young doctors at the frontline” and “young physicians for community health.”

He concluded by stressing that satellite hospitals must act both as “proactive learners” and as “growth nuclei” within their communities, contributing to the overarching goal of building a fair, quality, efficient, and integrated healthcare system.