Nghe An: The number of people seeking medical treatment is increasing.

This is the information given by Mr. Le Truong Giang - Director of the Provincial Social Insurance at the Conference on implementing the 2018 coordination program between the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department and the Provincial Social Insurance, held on the morning of May 8.

Comrades: Ho Phuc Hop - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department and Le Truong Giang - Director of the Provincial Social Insurance co-chaired the conference. Also attending were representatives of leaders of specialized departments and offices.

The head of the provincial Social Insurance Department said that the increase in the number of medical examinations and treatments is a reality at many medical facilities in the area. The provincial Social Insurance Department is implementing many solutions to stabilize the situation and limit the behavior of profiteering from the Health Insurance Fund.

Patients practice rehabilitation at Cua Dong General Hospital. Photo courtesy

“Thanh Hoa has about 500,000 more health insurance cards than Nghe An, but Nghe An has nearly 100,000 more medical examinations and treatments per quarter than Thanh Hoa,” Mr. Le Truong Giang emphasized. The Director of the Provincial Social Insurance also said that this is a content that needs to be paid attention to, oriented, and directed by the Provincial Party Committee’s Propaganda Department and local press agencies to coordinate in propaganda.

At the conference, representatives of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department and the Provincial Social Insurance Department took turns evaluating the results of the implementation of the 2017 coordination program. Notably, last year, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department organized a public opinion survey on the implementation of Resolution 21-NQ/TU with 1,000 questionnaires for officials, party members and people in the area.

The survey results provide important information for the Provincial Party Standing Committee to evaluate the 5-year implementation of Resolution 21, thereby helping Party committees at all levels to have solutions to promote leadership, direction and effective implementation of social insurance and health insurance work in the coming time.

The Director of the Provincial Social Insurance awarded a Certificate of Merit to comrade Ha Thi Thu Hoai - Deputy Head of the Science and Education Department, Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department for her outstanding achievements in propagating social insurance and health insurance policies in 2017. Photo: Phuoc Anh

During the coordination process, the two units also assessed that there were still some limitations such as slow financial allocation for implementing propaganda activities, so implementation was sometimes passive; coordination in propagating social insurance and health insurance policies on the internal information pages of the Propaganda Department at all levels was still limited; in some localities, coordination was still formal and not really of quality...

The conference discussed a number of contents of the 2018 propaganda coordination program such as compiling and writing news articles on the Provincial Party Committee's electronic information portal, internal announcements issued by the Propaganda Department of the province, city, and town; coordinating propaganda, processing, and orienting information on social insurance and health insurance through social opinion channels; compiling handbooks and propaganda manuals to equip grassroots reporters...

Leaders of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department and the Provincial Social Insurance signed the 2018 coordination program. Photo: Phuoc Anh