A doctor checks a child at the Bac Ninh Obstetrics and Paediatrics Hospital. Central-level hospitals will assign doctors to give training to medical workers at grassroots levels. (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Hospitals from central to district levels across thecountry have been ordered to set up detailed plans on training and transferringprofessional techniques to commune-level medical stations.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien made the request while approving theproject ‘Strengthening training, technique transferring and improving capacityof commune and ward medical stations in the period 2019-25’.
The decision comes into effect from May 23.
Under the project, in the short term, upper-lever hospitals must focus ontraining and transferring urgent techniques to improve professional capacityfor medical workers at commune and ward medical stations. Priority should begiven to non-infectious disease management.
Upper-level hospitals must design training curriculum and documents, andorganise on-site or distance training.
The project will run a pilot programme to found satellite clinics of severalcentral and district hospitals. The clinics will be located in or near crowdedresidential areas.
The project’s working principal is that upper-level hospitals assign doctors togo to grassroots-level medical stations to give training.
The project aims to improve professional capacity in commune and ward medicalstations, and organise a system of grassroots-level medical stations goingtogether with school medicines. It also targets developing an emergency systemat community before going to hospitals.
The project strives that by 2020, at least 90 percent of commune and wardmedical stations can ensure all conditions to give health examinations withhealth insurance, and by 2025, all commune and ward medical stations can do thework to ease overloading for upper-level hospitals.
To implement the project, provincial and municipal health departments mustcreate a list of grassroots-level medical stations that need doctors. Communeand ward medical stations must assign workers to get ready to join thetraining. – VNS/VNA
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