HCM City adopts measures to strengthen grassroots health care
Specific measures to help strengthen and improve the capacity of health stations in wards, communes and townships in Ho Chi Minh City was approved at the 5th session of the 10th-tenure People's Council of HCM City on April 7.
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Hanoi (VNA) – Specific measures to helpstrengthen and improve the capacity of health stations in wards, communes andtownships in Ho Chi Minh City was approved at the 5th session of the 10th-tenure People's Council&𒊎nbsp;of HCM City on April 7.
These measures will beimplemented since the resolution takes effect until the end of 2025.
One measure to address the shortage in human resources is to recruit retired medical workers to work at grassroots health stations underdefinite term labour contracts of under 12 months.
Currently, health stations in HCM City need to e🎀mploy 890 elderly medical workers withmedical expertise, including 280 doctors and 610 with qualifications at colle🦋ge or higher levels. ;
The city will also provide financial support to young doctors participating in a pilot programme to send new graduates from medical schools to work at communal-level health stations.
The city’s health sector believes that the new measures will help enhance grassroots health care in the comingtime.
Improving the grassroots health care capacity is one of thepriorities of the health sector which are outlined in its action plan from now to 2025 andthe following years.
More resources are expected to be invested in developing infrastructure facilitiesand purchasing equipment serving medical stations.
According to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee DuongAnh Duc, the country and HCM City in particularhave clearly identified the important role of grassroots health care, along wi♔th policy shortcomings in maintaining the grassroots health system./.
The grassroots-level health care network has been expanded nationwide, basically meeting public demand for health care, said Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.
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