Comprehensive improvement of people's health care
(Baonghean.vn) - To comprehensively improve health care for the people, in 2023, Nghe An Health sector will focus on implementing measures to prevent and control Covid-19 and other epidemics; strengthen the effectiveness of state management of health; and develop medical examination and treatment techniques.
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Nghe An Health Sector held a conference to summarize work in 2022 and deploy tasks in 2023. Photo: Thanh Chung |
On the afternoon of December 19, Nghe An Department of Health held a conference to summarize health work in 2022 and deploy tasks for 2023. Attending the conference, on behalf of the Ministry of Health, there was comrade Do Xuan Tuyen - Deputy Minister of Health; leaders of relevant departments, bureaus and units.
On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of the leadership of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, the Provincial People's Committee Office, the Provincial Party Committee of Provincial Agencies, the Provincial Police, the Provincial Social Insurance; districts, cities and towns in the province; public and non-public medical units.
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Associate Professor, Dr. Duong Dinh Chinh - Director of Nghe An Department of Health opened the conference. Photo: Thanh Chung |
Accomplishing the “dual goal”
In 2022, Nghe An Health sector achieved remarkable results: Completing the "dual goal", both resolutely and effectively preventing and fighting the epidemic, and focusing on excellently completing other professional tasks. Thereby, the Health sector has made an important contribution to the socio-economic development of the province.
Specifically, over the past year, many new and specialized techniques have continued to be effectively implemented. The quality of medical services has been increasingly improved; professional capacity has gradually met the needs of medical examination and treatment for people in the province, neighboring provinces and Laos.
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In 2022, the health sector coordinated with all levels and sectors to effectively carry out Covid-19 vaccination. Photo: Thanh Chung |
The work of disease prevention and Covid-19 vaccination has achieved remarkable results. At medical examination and treatment facilities, the spirit and service attitude of medical staff have clearly changed. The rate of people satisfied with medical services has been increasingly improved. Networkmedicalcontinue to develop, improve and affirm position in the region.
Training and development of high-quality human resources has made important progress. In particular, the field of scientific research has made a breakthrough. During the year, 05scientific conferenceregional scale with many leading scientists from across the country participating.
Population work and food safety and hygiene are maintained. Administrative reform and information technology application continue to be effectively implemented in units, gradually meeting patient satisfaction. Notably, in 2022, all key health indicators will be completed, achieving the set goals.
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Nghe An Health Department provides free medical examination and treatment for people affected by natural disasters in Ky Son district. Photo: Thanh Chung |
In addition to the achieved results, the medical work in 2022 still has certain difficulties and limitations: The quality of medical examination and treatment, and the development of new techniques in some medical examination and treatment facilities have not met the needs of patients, especially at the grassroots medical level and in remote and isolated areas.
There are many shortcomings in socialization and autonomy in medical examination and treatment units. The birth rate of the third child or more and the sex ratio at birth remain high. The infrastructure of many medical units is inadequate and seriously degraded. On the other hand, a number of unsynchronized mechanisms and policies are hindering the implementation of a number of tasks such as:biddingmedicines, materials, chemicals, equipment...
Focus on disease prevention and improve the quality of medical examination and treatment
Entering 2023, Nghe An Health sector has set out the following main directions and operational goals: Proactively focusing on measures to prevent and control Covid-19 and other epidemics, not allowing epidemics to break out and spread widely in the community; strengthening the effectiveness of state management of health; continuing to improve the quality of professional activities in medical examination, treatment and disease prevention at all levels; strictly controlling to ensure food safety; effectively implementing population and family planning work.
The sector ensures adequate supply of medicines, materials, vaccines, and medical biological products to meet the needs of medical examination and treatment, disease prevention, and safe and rational use of medicines; innovates the operating mechanism, implements autonomy in the organization, human resources, and health finance, and actively mobilizes investment resources for health; promotes administrative reform, and applies information technology in medical examination and treatment and health insurance payment.
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Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen praised and highly appreciated the outstanding results of Nghe An Health sector in taking care of people's health. Photo: Thanh Chung |
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen commended and highly appreciated the outstanding results in public health care, especially in building and developing the public and non-public health network; developing high and specialized techniques; preventing and fighting epidemics and injecting Covid-19 vaccines; and implementing basic health indicators.
The Deputy Minister of Health suggested: Nghe An Health Sector continues to advise the Ministry of Health and Nghe An province to develop and deploy tasks to effectively implement Resolution 26 of the Politburo, striving to soon turn Nghe An into a high-tech medical center of the North Central region; continue to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, promote scientific research, deploy specialized techniques, high-quality medical services; continue to effectively prevent and control Covid-19 and other epidemics.
The health sector focuses on effectively implementing the Government's Project 06 on digital transformation and application of information technology in medical examination and treatment. Medical facilities continue to effectively implement the financial autonomy mechanism, economically and effectively use the health insurance fund; strive to complete the people's health care targets in the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, period 2020 - 2025.
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Vice Chairman of the People's Committee Bui Thanh An requested the Nghe An Health sector to continue improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, and develop specialized and grassroots healthcare in parallel. Photo: Thanh Chung |
Speaking at the summary conference, Mr. Bui Thanh An - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Nghe An Health sector to focus on implementing 5 key tasks, including: Improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, developing specialized and grassroots healthcare in parallel; improving medical ethics, aiming at the satisfaction of patients and their families; building green - clean - beautiful medical facilities.
The sector needs to promote training to improve the quality of medical staff, to increasingly meet the needs of people in medical examination and treatment; develop a plan to train doctors by location for remote, isolated and difficult-to-attract areas; and at the same time, have a plan to rotate doctors between the provincial and grassroots levels.
The health sector also needs to continue to effectively implement population work, food safety and hygiene, and preventive medicine; strengthen state management of the private health sector, drug and vaccine management; promote the application of information technology, and build smart health. At the same time, it is necessary to pay attention to hospital management and health economics; strictly implement procedures and regulations in procurement and bidding; develop financial autonomy plans and classify the level of financial autonomy of units according to regulations.
Leaders of the Ministry of Health and the People's Committee of Nghe An province also expressed their confidence that the Nghe An health sector and medical units will continue to make new progress and perform well the task of caring for and protecting people's health./.
