Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the health sector to continuemodernising and perfecting the healthcare system, especiallygrassroots-level services and preventive medicine.
Addressing a conference of the Health Ministry in Hanoi on Feb. 23on the occasion of Vietnam Physicians’ Day (Feb. 27), PM Dung asked thesector to revamp operations and financial mechanisms in public healthunits.
He called on the ministry and relevantministries and branches to promptly submit a project on reducinghospital overload, with priority given to central general hospitals andspecialised hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City .
Attention should be paid to expanding training models to ensure human resources in future, Dung said.
The year 2011 is the third consecutive year the health sector hasfulfilled missions assigned by the National Assembly regarding sick bedsand the number of under-five malnourished children, as well as thebirth rate and treated solid waste.
The sector alsorecorded significant achievements in improving health care networkquality at grassroots level, with 80 percent of communes meetingnational health regulations, 72 percent of communal health clinicshaving doctors and 86 percent of villages having health workers.
The sector has invested in upgrading equipment for health check-upsand treatment, and successfully conducted organ transplants and surgerythat required high technology.
Such achievements are planned to be upheld in 2012, the meeting was told.
This year, the sector will offer health insurance cards to 65 percent of the population./.