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Hanoi improves quality of public health services

Hanoi is focusing on medical human resources training and administrative reform to improve the quality of public health services in 2014-2015 and onward.
Hanoi is focusing on medical human resources training andadministrative reform to improve the quality of public health servicesin 2014-2015 and onward.

The capital aims to reachthe rate of 12.5 doctors per 10,000 people and two pharmacists per10,000 people in 2015. The figures will be raised to 13.5 and 2.5respectively in 2020.

The capital’s health sectorwill enable more patients to access modern health check-ups andtreatment, while developing infrastructure and increasing the number ofsick-beds at hospitals.

It will also simplifyadministrative formalities via the implementation and expansion of theone-stop-shop mechanism and the application of information technology aswell as reducing time and cost for medical treatment.

Over the past five years, Hanoi allocated 567 billion VND (26.6million USD) to health care programmes, with a focus on maternal andchild health and communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Additionally, more than 51,000 middle-aged women in the city werescreened for cancer as part of a three-year project on cervical andbreast cancer, which was led by the Hanoi Committee for the Advancementof Women and ended in 2014.

The city alsodistributed free medicine worth 500 million VND (24,000 USD) andequipped the Hanoi Oncology Hospital with machinery worth more than 1.5billion VND (72,000 USD).-VNA
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