Hanoi (VNA) – Permanent Vice Chairwoman of theNational Assembly Tong Thi Phong lauded the World Health Organisation (WHO) forpartnering with Vietnam to improve public health care quality during areception in Hanoi on April 26 for WHO Regional Director for the WesternPacific Takeshi Kasai.
Phong thanked the director for his contributions in hiscapacity as WHO chief representative in Vietnam during 2012-2014.
She informed her guest that Vietnam is devising socialpolicies towards progress, fairness and effectiveness.
The Vietnamese Party and State consider policies and laws onhealth care and population a focus to achieve the people-centred goal forcomprehensive development, she said, adding that the Vietnamese legislaturewill give opinions on the draft law on the prevention and control of harmfulconsequences of alcoholic drinks and beer, and amendments to the Law on HealthCheck-Up and Treatment and the Law on Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS.
The host asked the WHO to continue assisting Vietnam inpublic health care, with a focus on updating health situation in Vietnam, theregion and the world, sharing its experience in devising and carrying outpolicies on prevention and control of communicable and non-communicablediseases, and working closely with Vietnam in disease control, particularlynewly-emerging epidemics.
She suggested that the WHO continue helping carry out publichealth care projects, especially in remote, mountainous and ethnic minorityareas, to narrow the gap of accessing public health care services in regions.
Kasai, for his part, expressed interest in furthersupporting Vietnam in public health care, providing the country with worldhealth information and solutions to public health care issues.
He wished that Vietnam would share its achievements anddifficulties in the process so that the WHO and other international health careorganisations could support Vietnam in the near future.-VNA
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