Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has urged Central Highlandsprovinces to accelerate the completion of construction on a regionalgeneral hospital and continue improving the grassroots health system toensure proper health checks and treatment for locals.
Addressing the ministry’s conference on January 27 in Dak Lakprovince, Minister Tien stressed the need to increase the quality ofpreventive medicine centres, disease control and quarantine stations atthe provincial level and along the border, as well as strengthening foodsafety inspections, particularly imports.
Priority should be given to investing in medical equipment, improvingthe capacity of provincial health staff, and drafting policies toattract health workers to remote and ethnic minority areas, she added.
At the conference, participants proposed theGovernment allocate increased capital to develop health systems in theregion and invest in several hospital projects in newly-establisheddistricts.
The Central Highlands consists of LamDong, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Dak Nong and Dak Lak provinces. In recentyears, the quality of health checks and treatment has increased thanksto joint efforts by the Government, Ministry of Health, and localauthorities. The number of people with access to quality health servicesrose from 8.8 million in 2012 to 9.1 million in 2013.
By the end of 2014, the region had 878 medical facilities with an average ratio of 6.8 doctors to every 10,000 people.-VNA
Addressing the ministry’s conference on January 27 in Dak Lakprovince, Minister Tien stressed the need to increase the quality ofpreventive medicine centres, disease control and quarantine stations atthe provincial level and along the border, as well as strengthening foodsafety inspections, particularly imports.
Priority should be given to investing in medical equipment, improvingthe capacity of provincial health staff, and drafting policies toattract health workers to remote and ethnic minority areas, she added.
At the conference, participants proposed theGovernment allocate increased capital to develop health systems in theregion and invest in several hospital projects in newly-establisheddistricts.
The Central Highlands consists of LamDong, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Dak Nong and Dak Lak provinces. In recentyears, the quality of health checks and treatment has increased thanksto joint efforts by the Government, Ministry of Health, and localauthorities. The number of people with access to quality health servicesrose from 8.8 million in 2012 to 9.1 million in 2013.
By the end of 2014, the region had 878 medical facilities with an average ratio of 6.8 doctors to every 10,000 people.-VNA
