Conference on implementing the National criteria for commune health for the period 2012-2020

At the conference, comrade Nguyen Xuan Hong, Deputy Director of the Department of Health approved the Project to implement the National criteria for commune health in Nghe An province for the period 2012-2020. The project evaluated the results of implementing the national standards for commune health in Nghe An province for the period 2002-2011: Accordingly, in recent years, commune health work in the area has been strengthened in terms of organization, staff, policy mechanisms and investment. The whole province of Nghe An has 480 commune, ward and town health stations with the function of performing primary health care tasks, implementing preventive health activities, disease prevention and organizing the implementation of population and family planning programs at the commune level. By 2011, 80.8% of communes met national health standards (388/480 communes). At the commune level, there are 2,679 medical staff, 87.7% of communes have doctors, and 98% of villages have medical staff.

The project to implement the National Criteria for Commune Health in Nghe An province for the period 2012-2020 aims to consolidate and develop the health network, gradually improve the quality of primary health care for the people: Strive to have 60% of communes by 2015 and 80% of communes by 2020 meeting the National Criteria for Health; achieve and exceed the health care targets set out in the Strategy for People's Health Care and Protection for the period 2011-2020.

Delegates attending the conference contributed their ideas in proposing solutions to effectively implement the Project; Special attention was paid to solutions for training and developing human resources such as organizing training and retraining of local health human resources, paying attention to recruiting and training for ethnic minorities, remote and isolated areas, training doctors according to the address for use in mountainous areas.../.

Thanh Chung