Hanoi (VNA) - TheMinistry of Health announced that it has completed providing online publichealth services level 4 for all administrative procedures under the managementof the health sector after six months of implementation.
Launched in November 2019, the Ministry of Health'sPublic Service Portal, at https://dichvucong.moh.gov.vn,is the only portal to focus on all online public services of the healthministry.
Speaking at a ceremony on June30, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam praised the efforts of theMinistry of Health and relevant sectors in completing the online public servicelevel 4 five years ahead of schedule.
TheDeputy PM also urged other ministries and agencies to quickly deploy andcomplete the online public service at level 4.
Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said that in recent years, theMinistry of Health has paid much attention to administrative reforms in effortsto improve the efficiency of administration management, create transparency inState agencies' activities, and better serve people and businesses.
Since2014, the health ministry has been one of the first ministries to implement acomplete online food safety service, meaning all works, from submitting,supplementing, processing documents, collecting fees and returning results, areimplemented in a digital environment. The Ministry of Health was also one ofthe first ministries to implement the Vietnam National Single Window mechanism since2015. In 2019, the Ministry of Health’s Public Service Portal was officiallyopened.
Long stressed that this was adigital revolution in the health sector, contributing to change the face of thehealth sector in the application of information technology.
The Ministry of Healthcurrently has 281 administrative procedures in 14 fields. By the end of 2019,after five years of implementation, the ministry had built and put into operation 90 onlinepublic services levels 3 and 4 in the fields of food safety and nutrition,pharmaceuticals; cosmetics; medical equipment and facilities, training andscientific research, information and technology, medical examination andtreatment, as well as preventive medicine with nearly 400 records receivedevery day.
TheMinistry of Health's Public Service Portal has been successfully integratedinto the National Public Service Portal, National One-Stop Portal and localpublic service systems to form a platform to support citizens and businesses.
From the beginning of Januaryto date, the health sector handled more than 33,400 files online, of which4,919 in the equipment and medical field; 8,708 in food safety, 18,027 in drugadministration and 1,724 in administration of medical examination andtreatment, according to statistics from the health ministry.
Online public service at level 4 means service payments can be done online, andtransaction results are available either online or by post, upon request./.