Nearly 70 years ago, during his visit to Thai Nguyen Central Hospital, President Ho Chi Minh advised: Patients entrust their lives to you. The Government entrusts you with the task of treating illnesses and protecting the health of the people. That is a very honourable mission. Therefore, medical staff must love and care for patients as if they were their own siblings, feeling their pain as their own. A good physician must be like a gentle mother.
Bearing in mind the teachings of President Ho Chi Minh, generations of the hospital’s doctors have always held that medical ethics is not only dedication but also the responsibility to continuously improve professional qualifications to provide the best possible treatment opportunities for patients. Therefore, each staff member here not only works with devotion, responsibility and compassion but also constantly studies, conducts research, approaches modern medical techniques and enhances professional capacity to serve the people better day by day.
Associate Professor, Doctor Nguyen Cong Hoang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Thai Nguyen Central Hospital, shared: “For us, these are not only instructions, not merely lofty slogans, but reminders from President Ho Chi Minh about the responsibility of doctors towards the health and lives of patients, which must be consciously fulfilled.”
In reality, for generations of doctors at Thai Nguyen Central Hospital, President Ho Chi Minh’s teachings serve as a standard of medical ethics, motivating them to continuously strive to master modern medical techniques. Specifically, Thai Nguyen Central Hospital was established during a period of arduous resistance war, with extremely limited facilities, a shortage of medical equipment and a small number of medical staff.
Through different stages of national development, with relentless efforts, Thai Nguyen Central Hospital has steadily developed into a specialised, tertiary-level medical facility serving the northern midland and mountainous region. Today, the Hospital has 58 units, departments and centres; more than 1,600 medical staff, including highly specialised and skilled professionals across various fields, and more than 2,000 hospital beds.
The system of specialised departments has been increasingly improved. With a team of highly specialised doctors and modern medical equipment, the Hospital has mastered many complex and specialised techniques such as cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, kidney transplantation, autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, microsurgery for limb reattachment, cardiovascular intervention and intensive care.
Notably, in 2025, the Hospital put into operation an Intensive Care–Toxicology Centre with a capacity of 120 beds (the largest in the north) and an Early Cancer Detection Unit under the Oncology Centre, along with many specialised clinics, meeting the increasing demand for medical examination and treatment of the people.
Not only a trusted address for patients, Thai Nguyen Central Hospital is also a centre for training, scientific research and professional guidance, transferring techniques to many medical facilities in the region. At the same time, the Hospital has established and expanded international cooperation in medical examination and treatment, training and scientific research, contributing to improving the quality of medical human resources.
The hospital has become one of six special-class hospitals in the country, honoured by the Party and the State with the title “Hero of Labour in the renovation period”, and awarded the Second-class and Third-class Independence Orders. It is a leading specialised medical facility in the northern midland and mountainous region.
