Dr. Bui Thi Chung, Dong Nghe Commune Health
Center, Da Bac has been clinging to the villages for medical examination for
her highland local people for many years.
Having graduated from Medical Intermediate
School in Hoa Binh city, Ms. Bui Thi Chung decided to come back and work at
Suoi Nanh commune medical center, Da Bac district. It is a remote commune and
it is more than 70 km far from the center of the district, with difficult
travelling and harsh natural conditions. Ethnic minority people accounts for
over 90% of the population in the commune; the proportion of poor households is
quite high. Therefore, the condition of people's health care is still lacking.
Understanding the difficulties of local people, Ms. Chung always tries to
overcome the shortage of medicines, physical conditions to take care of local
people's health.
During her working time, she was sent to Thai
Nguyen Medical University for further study. After her completion, she was
assigned to Dong Nghe commune health center. This is the most remote and most
difficult commune of Da Bac district with complicated terrain and sparse
population. However, the commune health center only has 4 people; she is the
only doctor, so most of the medical examination, treatment and implementation
of the target programs of the industry are all taken over by her.
According to statistics, every year the
examination center has nearly 2,000 examinations for patients, in addition, the
center regularly visits and has medical examinations in the villages of the
commune. Due to long distances, difficult circumstances, some villages are more
than 10 km far from the center of the commune through the forest path, so each
of her business trips would last a few days.
In remote villages, the knowledge of local
people is quite low; therefore, personal health care issue has many
limitations. Ms. Chung said: in the highland area, despite the fresh air, in
the cold season, many people suffer from respiratory diseases; the center staff
must always be on duty, examine and give treatment for patients. To prevent
diseases, center staffs regularly propagate to people how to prevent,
especially in the transition climate period or extremely cold weather. It is most notable for infants with severe
illness, the trasmission to the larger hospital is very difficult, expensive,
and fatal for patients and family members.
Ms. Xa Thi Luu in Nghe village, Dong Nghe
commune said: Previously, when being sick, people were very afraid to come for
medical examination and treatment. They often chose to stay at home for
worshipping or self-healing. They were afraid to bring the patients to the
center because they thought that there was no doctor so the medical examination
and treatment was no use. Since the doctor Chung came to work, local people
regularly have visited the commune health center for medical examination and
treatment. In cases of severe illness, the referral will be transferred to the
larger hospital without keeping at home as before.
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