The Provincial National Assembly Delegation requested Nghe An General Friendship Hospital to clarify many issues.

On the afternoon of August 1, the monitoring delegation of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation had a working session with Nghe An General Friendship Hospital on the results of 10 years of implementing Resolution No. 18/2008/QH12 dated June 3, 2008 (Resolution No. 18) of the 12th National Assembly on promoting the implementation of socialized policies and laws to improve the quality of health care for the people.

Attending the meeting were Deputy Heads of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation: Nguyen Thanh Hien; Tran Van Mao, and representatives of provincial departments, branches and sectors. Photo: Thanh Le

Problems with provisions of law and sub-law documents

Reflecting to the monitoring delegation, the Provincial General Hospital of Friendship proposed difficulties and inadequacies in the provisions of the Law on Management and Use of Public Assets 2017, Decree 151/2017/ND-CP and especially Article 7 of Decree 167/2017/ND-CP which have not clearly, fully, comprehensively and are not consistent with the Law on Enterprises 2014 in the provisions related to the issue of handling public assets.

In addition, there are still problems in the legal framework regulating the Project on socialized hospital activities, the Regulations on coordination of activities between medical facilities and public service units with socialized hospitals, operating under the management of enterprises established under the Law on Enterprises with State capital contribution (because the medical facility is a public service unit representing State capital) and investors.

Director of Nghe An General Friendship Hospital Nguyen Van Huong reports on the implementation results of Resolution 18. Photo: Thanh Le

Hospital leaders pointed out the shortcomings in the ranking of socialized hospitals operating under the management and operation of enterprises established under the Law on Enterprises with State capital contributions.

The State has not yet had clear and synchronous instructions for implementing the socialization of medical equipment in public units after the Law on Management and Use of Public Assets comes into effect, so medical examination and treatment facilities face difficulties in the implementation process.

Some issues need to be clarified

In discussions with the Provincial General Friendship Hospital, members of the monitoring delegation requested the hospital to clarify a number of issues: the list of issues that need to be socialized in the coming time; human resource training; concerns about the ratio of doctors/beds to meet the needs; receiving and using socialized resources from domestic and foreign organizations; progress of building area B; solutions on medical ethics, responsibilities of staff, physicians, and doctors; implementing the autonomy mechanism; organizational structure;...

Concluding the meeting, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation Nguyen Thanh Hien acknowledged the implementation of Resolution 18 at Nghe An General Friendship Hospital.

Regarding the hospital's proposal on the implementation of Resolution 18, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation Nguyen Thanh Hien informed: In the near future, the National Assembly will supplement and amend the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment and the Law on Health Insurance in the implementation of medical examination and treatment to suit the reality. Regarding the responsibilities of the Ministry of Health and Vietnam Social Security, the Provincial National Assembly Delegation will send a document to the two units, and at the same time report and propose to the Provincial People's Committee to approve the hospital's Group 2 autonomy project.

Nghe An General Friendship Hospital applies advanced techniques in medical examination and treatment. Photo: Document

The representative of the monitoring delegation also hopes that the Provincial General Friendship Hospital needs to outline a roadmap with synchronous solutions to build itself into a hospital in the North Central region; pay attention to training high-quality human resources; transfer specialized science and technology; do a good job of medical ethics, etc., maintain and develop the hospital's brand.