Saigon Pasteur Institute, the French Pasteur Institute in addition to the first in the world and now the City Pasteur Institute. Ho Chi Minh City, has been established. Through the ups and downs of history, how many generations have gone through, to dedication, construction and development. But his career is still Pasteur's scientific career, serving public health and cooperation between peoples. Promoting scientific tradition of Pasteur, today, under the attention of the Party, the government and the direct authority of the Ministry of Health, in close co-operation and efficiency of the agencies, health systems international cooperation at all levels of international and multilateral, comprehensive, Institut Pasteur has committed to build an institute specialized health centers and health facilities leading backup of the South.
Vietnam in the context of international integration, developing the market economy-oriented socialist to many factors, positive development and has both its left side, and the world as well as in Vietnam Men appeared new diseases such as SARS danger, influenza A / H5N1, the virus Nihpa ... HCMC Pasteur Institute tried operating under preventive medicine perspective, with the proactive measures is the most effective way and least costly to control disease and protect the health of the wider community including large numbers of individuals. As Pasteur said: "Take care of the sacred temples bring meaningful names, lab. Ask multiply greatly, beautifully decorated up: this is the temple of the future, the traditional honor, peaceful life. it is here, humans would grow older, stronger and better. "
HIV laboratory, where it has detected the first HIV case in Vietnam (1990), along with the laboratory polio, measles, hemorrhagic dengue, influenza, drug resistance has been equipped with modern machinery, trained staff to be able to catch up with the international level of diagnosis, detection, research, microbiology, immunology, molecular biology and research and development of vaccine production, bio-diagnostics guess contributing to surveillance and prevention of diseases such as polio elimination, eliminate neonatal tetanus, control of influenza A / H5N1, dengue prevention and control of hand, foot and mouth disease caused by enterovirus ... Apart , some laboratory services and ISO 17025. this result is mainly due to the hard work, hard work, diligence in the laboratory of generations of cadres. There are many people who have devoted their youth to devote to a passion is to work in the "sacred temple" thing.
Another task that the Institute has been and continues to perform the steering operation monitoring disease prevention, implementation of the national target program as the activities of public health and mentoring . On all roads, communes, villages of the southern provinces are bold footprints HCMC Pasteur Institute staff. They go to these places to do, to learn, to train, to guide, to propagate, to organize, to share with colleagues at all levels, up to the houses, day-to-month, unmanaged remote road weariness aside and work with the family to help the country to repel, control of infectious diseases, making Vietnam become a bright spot of preventive medicine in the region and world as the elimination of polio and repel plague, eliminating neonatal tetanus is the first successfully controlled SARS, influenza A / H5N1 ...
With the combination of activities in the laboratory and in the community, the Institute has carried out many topics the state level, the ministerial level, a variety of topics of international cooperation and has taken on the application. In science and technology fairs by the Ministry of Science, Technology and the City People's Committee. HCM organization, the Institute has received the Gold Cup Techmart fairs.
Start by training, implementation needs to continue training and further training. Must be associated with the University Institute, the institute is trying to become the first training center, practical training on preventive medicine for the southern region. Every year there are dozens of training courses on epidemiology, microbiology, immunology, molecular biology ... for the prevention of health workers at all levels. It was also the practice facility theses, dissertations for students and staff of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Natural Sciences, University of Agriculture and Forestry and the latest one in the hospital staff, international School. The Institute also participated as a community of microbiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy HCMC, is the focal point of cooperation, organizing international training courses on infectious diseases and infections.
City Pasteur Institute. HCM also a preventive medicine unit of the country first put the knowledge economy thinking into regular activities of the Institute in the implementation of biomedical services with nearly 300 technical examination of the person, food, water and industrial products. Every day there are about 500 - 1000 visitors to test all kinds. Vaccine production activities, students begin the investment, enhance development, in addition to produce millions of doses of vaccine BCG serves expanded immunization program for children, the Institute also produces vaccines and biological diagnosis of dengue fever, encephalitis, Lepto, intestinal diseases, detect a-fetoprotein ...
After implementation of tax obligations to the state several billion, the Institute has reinvested for professional activities and increase incomes for workers and employees and social activities, charitable.
Developing internal resources is decided. But cooperation with units of domestic and international cooperation is also an important factor for the development of training units, research. To implement its functions, the Institute has always had, a relationship and effective cooperation with other units in the health sector: the departments at the local, preventive health system services, system treatment and hospitals, especially in Ho Chi Minh City hospital at the University.
Institute has always focused on the multilateral international cooperation. The Institute is a member of the institute system in the world and a member of the management council of the institute in the world. Also Institute also works closely with research institutes, universities, the US (CDC, NIH, NAMRU ...), Japan (Nagasaki University, University of Tokyo, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, NIID), Australia (held AFAP, University of Queensland, ...), ... and the neighboring countries: China, Laos, Cambodia, ...
20/11/2006 day visit to the US president George W. Bush and his wife, following a 14th APEC Summit in Hanoi is a highlight for scientific cooperation with the US and prevention. US president has visited the laboratory of HIV / AIDS and the laboratory with influenza A / H5N1. Since this is a medical problem, global society and also the projects with the cooperation of the United States. By visiting the laboratory, the US president was praised for quality and research activities in the laboratory as well as the prevention of the disease in Vietnam in general and Ho Chi Minh City's Pasteur Institute. HCM particular.
Institute of Health has approved the development plan from now to 2010, the Institute and orientation to 2020. That is the basis for the Institute developed into a research institute of preventive medicine, practical training centers preventive medicine and a center for production of vaccines and biological products reach the level of regional and international integration, while ensuring that the lead agency monitoring mentoring and prevention services for the South Male.
The Institute has implemented Decree 10, which is now 43 government decree to implement the financial autonomy of the unit. Democratic regulations of specific units elaborated on all the activities of the Institute meticulously compiled into a brochure and have been issued since last 5 years. That is the basis for creating unity Institute, the collective consensus, transparency, clarity and fairness in human resource management, finance, materials, etc.
Collective Leadership Institute is the collective staff of young, enthusiastic, passionate, progressive and solidarity, has the power to help make up the Institute overcome many difficulties and challenges for preventive health work during well past time to complete assigned tasks.
City Pasteur Institute. HCM respectfully and sincerely thank the attention, help and cooperation of the Government valuable, Ministry of Health, People's Committees of provinces and cities, especially Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, the Department of Health Center for preventive Medicine, provincial hospitals, district health systems, communes, villages, communities southern region, international colleagues. The officials and employees of today's generation working at the Pasteur Institute lap record contributions, sacrifices and dedication of generations prior to construction, formation and development of HCM City Pasteur Institute like today.
The entire staff and the Pasteur Institute strives still need more effort, dedication and creativity much more to contribute to the cause of caring, protecting human health, society's most valuable assets across all age.
FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES
1. The study of medical biology including microbiology, immunology, and epidemiology of infectious diseases.
2. The direction of epidemic control: plague, cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever, Dengue haemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis… and the implementation of various national health programs in 19 southern provinces and cities.
3. Providing health services: clinical laboratory analyses, immunization, dispensary services, and laboratory analysis for food hygiene-safety.
4. The production of vaccines (B.C.G. vaccine and rabies vaccine) and bio-products for diagnosis of various bacterial and viral infections.
5. Postgraduate training on microbiology and collaborating with the University of Medicine and the Public Health Institute in the formation and education of microbiology, immunology, epidemiology for the scientific inheritor cadres of the Institute and the southern preventive medicine system.
6. International collaboration in disease control, scientific research and formation.
