History:

The National institute of burn (NIB) was called Le Huu Trac hospital under ministry of helath and Ministry of defend, was established as the dicision No 142-CT dated 25 the April, 1991 by Vietnam government. Its predecessor was burn department B3, was hero of arming force under hospital-institute 103 of ministry of defend - medical institute of military.

The board of director:

Founder, former director,
The people physician,
The hero of the arming force, Prof, scientific Ph.D Le The Trung

Director
 Ph.D, excellent physician
Le Nam

Secretary of branch of communist party
Nguyen Trung Thuc

Vice director
Ph.D Nguyen Van Hue

Functions and tasks:

NIB is the leading institute in research, treatment, education and guiding of the activities for burn prevention and control with tasks as follows:

. Researching the ways of burn prevention and control and the first management in the primary level.
. Monitoring, guiding the profession and techniques of burn profession in the whole country.
. Consulting and treating the burn for people and arming force  as well as burn sequela.
. Collaborating with the medical universities to train and complement cadres in burn profession.
. Cooperating with domestic and international universities, hospitals and organizations in the science of burn according to the leading of ministry of health.

Manpower:

Prof. Scientific Ph.D: 1
Ph.D: 7
M.S: 16
1st grade M.D: 7
M.D: 14
Phar: 2
Bachelor: 14
Technician, nurses

Organizational structure:

Emergency and recovering department:

Chief of: Ph.D Nguyen Gia Tien
Admiting and treating the patients with severe burn.

Pediatric burn department:

Chief of: Ph.D Nguyen Ngoc Tuan
Receiving and treating the burn for children; participating the propagandization of burn prevention and control for children in the public; researching the treatment of pediatric burn.

Burn department for adults:

Chief of: M.S DO Luong Tuan
Receiving and treating the burn for adults, the skin loss injury etiology; participating the research of the burn treatment; guiding the lower levels in the burn prevention, treatment and disaster through the country.

Department of treatment of the burn sequela and plastic surgery:

Chief of M.S Dang Tat Hung
- Receiving and treating the patients with burn sequela and implementing the plastic surgery; applying the microsurgery with path of exrathin skin bag of stretched skin.

Operation theatre:

Chief of: M.S Doan Phu Cuong
Anaesthesia and recovering in a anesthesia surgery for bandage substitution; participating emergency and treatment in the other department, especially intensive care unit.

Nursing department:

Chief of: Bachellor: Nguyen Thi Lu
Implementing the thorough care for patients; monitoring and reminding the implementation of hospital regulations for technicians and nurses. Guiding and remiding the proper implementation of the sterilised works in hospital. Educating the health for patients during treatment as well as returning the publicity.

The therapeutic physics - function rehabitation:

Chiefof: M.D Pham Thi Mai Huong
Admitting and treating the therapeutic physics - function rehabitation for patients with burn. Applying the high pressure oxygen in adding the treatment of burn.

Paraclinical department:

Chief of: M.D Nguyen Khanh Hoi
Implementing the tests, supplying the blood and blood substances to serve the treatment. Participating to the training and scientific research.

Pharmacy - medical equipment department:

Chief of: M.S Nguyen Thi Loc
Supplying the drug and medical equipments to serve treatment, participating the research of drugs for burn, preparing some essential drugs.

Medical examination department.

Chief of: M.S Do Thanh Long
Admiting, classifying and transfering the patients to the clinical departments. Treating the outpatients with smal burns.
Sumerising and commenting the first aid in the primary levels.

The planning and combinning division:

Chief of: Ph.D Nguyen Viet Luong
Supervising and monitoring the implementation of hospital regulations, setting up the activity plan of departments, division, organizing the implementation of the general activities of institute, guiding the lower levels and deploying the domestic and international cooperation.

Labo of researching the application for burn treatment:

Chief of: Ph.D Pham Quang Ngoc
Researching, applying and manufacturing the biological membranes for burn treatment (pig skin and frog skin)

Faculty of burn (under the army medical institute)

Chief of: Ph.D Nguyen Van Hue
Organizing the training courses of burn: Educating and teaching the burn for medical students, candidates of primary profession, 1st or 2nd grade M.D, M.S and Ph.D.

Viet Nam burn association (under Viet Nam general medico-pharmaceutical association) was established according to the dicision No 728 TTg by prime minister dated 30th November, 1994.

Chairman: Prof, Scientific Ph.D Le The Trung
Executive committe: 26
Participants: 300
Tasks:
. Encouraging and helping the participants in upgrading the profession, scientific research and education to contribute the cause of the people protection and care.
. Participating the scientific advice, setting up and developing the Viet Nam burn branch.
. Cooperating, exchanging the experiences in scientific research in the country and in the world.

Advising commission for profession of the burn and disaster medicine (under ministry of health) Was established according to the dicision No 1840/BYT-QD by ministry of health dated 14 th October, 1996.

Chairman: prof, scientific Ph.D Le The Trung
Member: 30
Tasks:
. Researching the evaluation of the professional situation of the burn and disaster medicine in order to recommend to minister of health for the works of setting the disaster medicine branch, the plan of regular preparation from central to local levels when disaster occurs.
. Collaborating with the functional departments to monitoring the disaster situation, assisting the minister of health, guiding the health departments for the orientation and the solution of technico-profession that suitable with the present situation in order to solve the health problems during disaster and after disaster.
. Researching and introducing the establishement of the burn treatment network in the whole country, especially the prevention, first aid and mass burn during disaster.
. Editing and publishing the materials of disaster medicine and burn to serve the education, research and treatment.
. Cooperating with the domestic and international organizations:

Editorial office of journal of disaster medicine and burn:

Editor in chief: Prof. Le The Trung
Editorial office of the journal of disaster medicine and burn was established according to the dicision No 78/GD-BVHTT by the ministry of culture and information dated 23 th March, 2001. Being the speech organization and exchanging the scientific experiences of advising commission for the disaster medicine and burn under ministry of health, the national institute of burn and Viet Nam burn association. The journal of disaster medicine and burn was issued quartely.

Some major achievements (1991-2001):

Treatment:

. Emergency treatment: 18000 cases, many patients burned with 85% of the body area and 50% deep burned areas.
. Participating emergency and treatment the burn patients in the big fire.

Training:

Teaching the burn profession for 500 medical doctors in the lower lovels, 300 long-term M.D, 45 primary profession M.D, 22 M.S and 8 Ph.D.

Researching:

Researching and applying the drugs for burn treatment including: B 76, Maduxin, AT 4, SH 91, Eopolin and Dampomade.
Completing 5 themes of national levels, many themes of ministry level and local levels.
Developing and cooperating in research of culture of corneous cell, technological adhesive bandage - Nano, and biological membrane.

Professional guiding:

Setting up the burn treatment network in the whole country. Training and supplying the documents in burn treatment for lower levels.

Editing and publishing activity:

Compiling the text books of the burn and editing, publishing and issueing the journal of disaster medicine and burn which sent to 61 provincial health offices and the burn departments in hospitals in the whole country.

International cooperation:

Cooperating with European sore sealing association, the burn surgery association of Japan, the chicago university (America) the French burn association, the institute of surgery A.V. visnhepski (Rusia) and the international atomic energy association (IAEA).