New mechanism for stronger healthcare system

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.