Prime Minister emphasises role of community health education
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted the importance of education on health care while meeting with representatives of the Vietnam Association for Community Health Education (VACHE) in Hanoi on January 4.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (front, centre) and representatives of the Vietnam Association for Community Health Education pose for a photo at the meeting in Hanoi on January 4 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuchighlighted the importance of education on health care while meeting withrepresentatives of the Vietnam Association for Community Health Education(VACHE) in Hanoi on January 4.
VACHE Chairman Nguyen Hong Quan said communityhealth education is an urgent but also long-term issue.
The association, founded 10 years ago, now hasfour research institutes, 22 centres and thousands of branches and clubs withtens of thousands of members, he highlighted.
He took this occasion to ask the Government to workout better mechanisms and policies to ensure that all people have healthinsurance and benefit from high-quality medical services with lower prices.
Quan also called for more favourable conditionsfor public-private partnership in health care, along with stronger mechanismsto strictly monitor the quality of medical services.
At the meeting, PM Phuc said the establishmentof the VACHE is significant to the education on community health.
He spoke highly of the association’s practicaland effective activities that have substantially helped with the care forpeople’s health.
The Government leader requested the VACHE tofurther gear its activities towards the elderly, children and ethnic minoritypeople. It should make use of traditional medicine in community health care,attract more private funding for activities, and utilise its widespread networkacross the country.
The VACHE also needs to better join hands withthe healthcare sector in communications to raise public awareness of seriousdiseases like cancers, he added. –VNA
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (front, centre) and representatives of the Vietnam Association for Community Health Education pose for a photo at the meeting in Hanoi on January 4 (Photo: VNA) 
