The National Assembly delegation of Nghe An province supervises the mobilization and use of resources to prevent and fight the Covid-19 epidemic.

Comrades Thai Thi An Chung - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Tran Nhat Minh - Member of the National Assembly's Law Committee, full-time National Assembly delegate, Deputy Head of the Supervisory Delegation chaired the meeting.Also attending were Major General Tran Duc Thuan - Standing Member of the National Assembly's Committee on National Defense and Security; representatives of provincial People's Council committees and leaders of several provincial departments and branches.Photo: Mai Hoa

Mobilizing more than 27 billion VND to serve the fight against Covid-19 epidemic

At the meeting, according to the report from the leader of the Provincial Center for Disease Control, the budget for epidemic prevention and control workCovid-19from 3 sources: Budget; revenue from Covid-19 testing services; mobilized resources from the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and organizations and individuals.

The total funding source is more than 27 billion VND. From mobilized sources, the center has served the purchase of supplies, biological products and support expenses for staff participating in the prevention of Covid-19 epidemic; in which the source of support from organizations and individuals is used 100%.

In addition to funding, the unit has also received donations of materials and biological products to serve epidemic prevention with a total value of more than 27 billion VND.

Comrade Chu Trong Trang - Deputy Director of the Provincial Center for Disease Control reported to the monitoring delegation on the mobilization, management and use of funding sources for Covid-19 prevention and control. Photo: Mai Hoa

Also according to the report of the Provincial Center for Disease Control, Nghe An is the locality that receives many types of vaccines.Covid-19 preventionwith 5 types and a total of more than 7.3 million doses to vaccinate 3 groups of subjects from 5 to under 12 years old; 12 to under 18 years old and the group from 18 years old and above.

The center has implemented Covid-19 testing and service collection activities in accordance with regulations. Notably, the total amount of testing fees of more than 41 billion VND is used entirely for Covid-19 prevention and control, such as purchasing materials, testing reagents, business expenses, and allowances for staff participating in the fight against the epidemic.

Comrade Thai Thi An Chung - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation requested the center to clearly evaluate the implementation results of Resolution No. 12 of the National Assembly Standing Committee and Decree No. 29 of the Government on a number of mechanisms and policies in the health sector to serve the work of epidemic prevention and control. Photo: Mai Hoa

Clarify problems and difficulties

Based on the report of the Provincial Center for Disease Control, at the meeting, the members of the delegation highly appreciated the efforts of the staff and workers of the center in the past time, contributing to the effective prevention and control of epidemics in the area; at the same time, they shared the difficulties of the unit. Some members also raised many issues asking the center to clarify, and raised some concerns.

Affirming that preventive medicine, grassroots health care as well as Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control work have received attention from the National Assembly, the Government, central and local ministries and branches through the promulgation of many policies and guidelines, including Resolution No. 12 of the National Assembly Standing Committee and Decree No. 29 of the Government on a number of mechanisms and policies in the health sector to serve the epidemic prevention and control work, comrade Thai Thi An Chung - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation requested the center to clearly assess the implementation results of these two documents, especially the difficulties, obstacles and shortcomings to propose solutions.

Major General Tran Duc Thuan - Standing Member of the National Assembly's Defense and Security Committee, asked the center to clarify the difficulties and shortcomings in the current bidding process and procedures in the healthcare sector from practice. Photo: Mai Hoa

In addition, attention should be paid to the management of private vaccination centers in the province; the recent high focus on Covid-19 prevention and control has affected vaccination activities in the province and recommendations should be drawn from experience.

In addition to the above issue, Major General Tran Duc Thuan - Standing Member of the National Assembly's Defense - Security Committee raised the issue of violations in bidding in the past time, so he requested the center to clarify from practice the difficulties and inadequacies in the current bidding process and procedures in healthcare as well as regulations and policies on mobilizing, managing and using resources for epidemic prevention so that the National Assembly's provincial supervision delegation has a basis to make recommendations to the Central Government.

Comrade Chu Duc Thai - Standing Member, Head of the Culture - Social Committee, Provincial People's Council requested clarification of the current plan to handle surplus biological products. Photo: Mai Hoa

On the other hand, what are the current problems and difficulties in organizing preventive medicine and primary health care? Is it possible to clarify whether or not during the Covid-19 testing process, pooling samples is being done, but people are being charged for application forms? What is the effectiveness of merging administrative units and implementing the current autonomy mechanism?

Many opinions also raised a number of issues related to the large difference in estimates and actual expenditures from the budget for Covid-19 prevention and control; how to handle some of the current backlog of biological products to avoid waste; difficulties in facilities, policies and incentives for staff working in preventive medicine and grassroots health care, etc.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thuong - Deputy Director of the Department of Health explained and clarified a number of issues raised by the members of the monitoring team. Photo: Mai Hoa

At the end of the working session, comrade Tran Nhat Minh - Member of the Law Committee of the National Assembly, full-time National Assembly delegate requested the Provincial Center for Disease Control to continue and fully explain the concerns raised by the supervisory members; at the same time, in the process of performing professional tasks, it is necessary to proactively review and detect inadequacies and overlaps in legal regulations as well as in practice to promptly make recommendations to all levels to promptly amend, supplement and overcome; creating favorable conditions for the industry's operations, contributing to protecting and improving people's health.