EU funds Vietnam’s health sector reform with 114 million EUR
The deal, signed by Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung and Europe
Aid’s Director for Asia, Central Asia, Middle East/Gulf and Pacific
Pierre Amilhat, aims to support Vietnam in restructuring its health
sector and implementing reform plans and programmes for 2015-17 period.
The EU-HSPSP-2 targets sustainable poverty
reduction and harmony growth in Vietnam through assistance in
boosting the health care sector towards fairness, efficiency and quality
as set forth in the health sector development strategy.
The programme is expected to help the Vietnamese health sector fulfill its 2011-15 goals.
It also contributes to the building of health care policy and plans
for the 2016-20 period, focusing on speeding up the roadmap to promote
the coverage of health care services nationwide and improve the service
quality at local levels, thus easing the overload at central hospitals.
At the signing ceremony, the two sides pledged to
successfully realise the programme as part of efforts to continue the
20-year-long cooperation between the Health Ministry and the EU.
Currently, the EU is the biggest donor and the second largest trade
partner of Viet Nam . The two sides are negotiating a bilateral free
trade agreement which is hoped to be signed in 2015.-VNA