Need to supplement human resources to serve people's health care

(Baonghean.vn) -On the morning of December 25, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department held a conference to summarize 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 46-NQ/TW and Resolution No. 47-NQ/TW of the Politburo (Term IX). Comrade Le Ba Hung - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department chaired the conference.

Overview of the conference summary

After the Resolution No. 46-NQ/TW dated February 25, 2005 of the Politburo on the work of protecting, caring for and improving people's health in the new situation, most Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations from the province to the grassroots level and among the people have created correct and complete awareness in the work of protecting, caring for and improving health.

Comrade Le Ba Hung spoke at the conference

Some localities have effective ways to take care of people's health, such as Quy Hop organizes "Volunteer Saturday" to examine and provide free medicine to policy beneficiaries and poor people in remote areas; Dong Hieu commune (Thai Hoa town) pays an additional 500,000 VND/person per month to village health workers contributed by the people; Dien Chau and Nghi Loc districts are proactive in creating human resources by contacting universities and colleges to train local health workers; Tay Bac and Tay Nam General Hospitals and Nghi Loc Hospital are equipped with a number of hospital beds...

In addition, the conference also discussed the implementation of the resolution's objectives. Over the past 10 years, Nghe An province's health care system has been built in a gradual, modern, complete, and synchronous manner from the province to the grassroots level in a fair, effective, and developing direction, capable of meeting the increasingly high and diverse needs of the people for health protection, care, and improvement; reducing the rate of disease and death, increasing life expectancy, improving the quality of life; achieving and exceeding the set health targets, forming a synchronous health care system from the province to the grassroots level, including 12 provincial hospitals; 17 district hospitals; 02 district health centers; 09 private hospitals; 04 hospitals of ministries and branches located in the area.

Besides, there are still limitations in the implementation of the resolution such as the policy mechanism and human resource investment have not yet met the needs of protecting and taking care of people's health, especially in remote mountainous communes. Up to now, some targets have not been achieved such as: The rate of communes with doctors, the rate of villages with active medical staff, the rate of malnutrition in children under 5 years old... Lack of highly qualified, specialized and specialized staff at all levels. Up to now, the whole sector is still short of 570 doctors (179 at the commune level, 244 at the district level, 147 at the provincial level); there is a shortage of 70 university pharmacists (20 at the district level, 50 at the provincial level).

Comrade Le Ba Hung awarded certificates of merit to the collectives.

Awarding certificates of merit to individuals with outstanding achievements

Within the framework of the conference, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department awarded certificates of merit to 12 collectives and 7 individuals with high achievements in protecting and caring for community health.

Thanh Nga