President hails health care sector's achievements
The State leader attended a
ceremony on June 28 to mark the 50th founding anniversary of Vietnam
Pharmaceutical Corporation (Vinapharm), where he presented the first-class Labour Order to the corporation.
He stressed that the difficulties that the health sector is facing are only
temporary, adding that the Party and State are paying attention to and
ready to work with the sector to solve the existing challenges and obstacles.
He urged the Ministry of Health to work out amendments to the Law on Bidding, the Law on
Health Insurance and relevant legal documents, and submit them to the
Government for consideration and approval so as to create favourable conditions
for medical establishments to quickly secure sufficient drugs to
serve patients.
The State leader also asked the health sector and Vinapharm
to perfect mechanisms and policies, especially those related to finance, to improve the quality and efficiency of
medical services; address the overloading at hospitals; expand the coverage of
universal health insurance and health insurance payments; and better control medical costs.
He required Vinapharm to play the leading role in investing in and transferring drug production technology to improve the quality of Vietnamese-made medicines./.