New mechanism for stronger healthcare system
VGP – The Government agrees to grant independent authority to public healthcare centers as a way to uphold the strength of over 200,000 health officials while encouraging them to think fresh and work more professionally.
According to the Government’s Decree 43/2006/ND-CP, many
public healthcare centers have consolidated their personnel apparatus and
proposed more health services to meet assorted demands of the public.
Granting independent authority to public health
centers to make the domestic health system more powerful – Illustration photo
Four
groups to be granted with independent authority
The granting of independent authority for public health
centers will be carried out comprehensively to ensure good-quality health
services.
Therefore, in its draft decree on operation and financial
mechanism for public health centers, the Ministry of Health sorts out four
groups of public health units for easier and fairer budget spending and
disbursement.
The first group includes units that have adequate income to support
their regular operations and development investment. The second group covers units
that can afford their regular operations. The third group includes units that
have adequate income to partly finance their regular operations. And, the
fourth group includes units whose regular operations fully depend on the State
budget.
In order to utilize the aggregate strength of over 200,000 health officials nationwide, the draft
decree will allow heath units to freely recruit their own well-trained and
professional staff while paying deserved salary to these officials.
A
better and better health system
The country’s healthcare system is developed rapidly during
past years. At least 100% of communes and 86.8% of hamlets have practitioners;
65.1% of communes have stationed-in doctors.
Over 65% of communal clinics have met national standards and
above 80% of dispensaries provided check-up services to insurance-card
patients. Many preventive health centers are consolidated at district and
provincial levels.
Public hospitals are upgraded or rebuilt. The figure for sick-beds
at district hospitals stays at 19.3 per one thousand people.
More and more disadvantaged patients, the poor, and under-6-year-old
children have benefited from supportive policies.
