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Hanoi achieves all population targets

Hanoi achieved all seven population targets that it set for 2023, according to the city’s Health Department, including reducing the third child birth rate and sex ratio at birth.
Hanoi achieves all population targets ảnh 1Hanoi achieves all seven population targets that it set for 2023, according to the city’s Health Department, including reducing the third child birth rate and sex ratio at birth. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi achieved all sevenpopulation targets that it set for 2023, according to the city’s HealthDepartment, including reducing the third child birth rate and sex ratio at birth.

The city exceeded its targets in regular health check-ups for oldpeople, pre-marital health checks and consultations, the number of peopleusing new contraceptive methods, and prenatal andnewborn screening.

The city’s health sector effectively implemented projectsand plans on population work such as those on expanding screening,diagnosis, and treatment of prenatal and neonatal diseases and illnesses, healthcare for the elderly in the 2017 – 2025 period, enhancing physical strength and height ofHanoi people by 2030, and improving thecapacity of health workers in population work at all levels in the 2022 – 2030period.

Currently, Hanoi is the second largest city by population inVietnam after Ho Chi Minh City, with 8,587,141 people in 2023, accounting forabout 8.56% of the country's population. The mechanical population growth rateremains high with an average yearly increase of about 200,000, whichcreates great pressure in implementing population policy in the city.

This year, the capital city is striving to reduce thethird child birth rate by 0.15% year-on-year, provide regular health check to 88% of the elderly, and conduct screening of four common disease for 84% of pregnant women and five common diseases for 89% of new-borns./.

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