NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue visits the Ministry of Public Health on February 20. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue hasurged the medical sector to develop an equal, quality and effective healthcaresystem towards universal healthcare coverage and social insurance for all.
At a working session with the Ministry of Public Health on February 20 ahead of the 69th anniversary of the Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27), the top legislatorrequested the sector to fully roll out the 12th Party Committee’s Resolutionon enhancing people’s healthcare in the new situation so as to improve mentaland physical wellbeing, stature, longevity, and life quality of the Vietnamesepeople.
He highlighted the sector's important role in the control of the COVID-19pandemic and the downgrade of theinfectious disease to Group B that covers the ones spreading fast and causingdeath from Goup A that comprises particularly dangerous ones spreading veryfast and on a large scale and have a high mortaility rate or unclear causes.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said countries worldwide can learn fromVietnam’s pandemic prevention and control experience, and this is the biggestachievement that the sector has carved out so far, he added.
He hailed the sector’s efforts toovercome challenges, remove policy bottlenecks, and make bold steps in thecompletion of mechanisms, state management and implementation of professionalmissions, making contributions to the country’s success.
Describing the medical profession as a special one, he stressed that humanresources in the sector must be recruited meticulously and receive specialtraining and remuneration.
Since investing in healthcare is investingfor development, he recommended the sector to focus more on the training work,helping doctors and other medical staff improve their political mettle,professional expertise and moral virtues to better serve the patients.
Hue took the occasion to asks the sector to studysuitable remuneration policies for the medical staff, and sketch out stable andlong-term policies to attract high-quality human resources, along withbolstering technology transfer and innovation.
He called on the sector to streamline its apparatus and step up administrativereform and digital transformation.
Sixty-nine years ago on February 27, President Ho Chi Minh delivered a letter to a conference of medical workers, asking the sector to stay united, siꦺncerely care for patients, and develop the country’s health sector. Since then, the date February 27 has become the sector’s traditional day./.
