Launching the Reproductive Health Care - Family Planning Communication Campaign in Ky Son

On the morning of March 13, the Steering Committee for Population and Development of Nghe An coordinated with the People's Committee of Ky Son district to organize the launching ceremony of the integrated communication campaign to provide reproductive health care/family planning services and improve population quality in 2024.

Attending the launching ceremony were comrades: Le Thanh Dung - Director of the Department of Population - Ministry of Health; Nguyen Huu Le - Deputy Director of the Department of Health; Nguyen Ba Tan - Director of the Department of Population - Family Planning; leaders of a number of related departments, branches and sectors.

On the side of Ky Son district, there were comrades: Vi Hoe - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Secretary of the District Party Committee; Vi Thi Quyen - Vice Chairman of the District People's Committee, and a large number of people in the district.

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Deputy Director of the Department of Health Nguyen Huu Le highly appreciated the efforts of the entire Population sector in recent times, especially in implementing campaigns.

In particular, it has been completely proactive in comprehensively implementing contents according to population and development orientation, focusing on improving population quality, implementing activities of screening for congenital diseases, prenatal and newborn screening.

In addition, population work has also focused on responding to challenges in population structure such as gender imbalance at birth, population aging, etc. This is a premise, creating positive momentum for the provincial population sector to continue to perform well its tasks in the following years. At the same time, it contributes significantly to the achievements of socio-economic development and improving the quality of life of the people of the province.

In addition to the achieved results, the leaders of the health sector also pointed out the difficulties and challenges in the current population work when Nghe An is still a province with a large population, more than 3.5 million people (ranked 4th in the country); is the province with the 6th highest birth rate in the country (2.61 children) and still has an increasing trend. It is noteworthy that the birth rate of the third child or more has decreased but not significantly and is still very high (28.08%); the gender imbalance at birth is at a high level (116.33 boys/100 girls); although the population quality has been improved, it is still low...

In the above context, service provision activitiesreproductive health care/Family planning plays a very important role in the work of Population and Development. Good service provision will solve the basic problems of population work, in which it is worth noting that we should be more proactive in family planning to implement the model of small families; contributing to improving the quality of population.

To successfully achieve the set goals and targets and successfully implement the campaign in 2024, on behalf of the Provincial Steering Committee for Population and Development, the Deputy Director of the Department of Health requested that relevant departments, branches and localities continue to pay attention, lead, direct and invest resources in population work.

In particular, it is necessary to identify this as an important and regular task, both a goal and a premise to improve population quality, contributing to proactively preparing high-quality human resources to meet the requirements of industrialization and modernization of the homeland and country.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the effective organization of propaganda and mobilization activities, diversify the content and forms suitable for target groups, mobilize the entire political system to participate, and create a widespread and effective spread among the masses.

Based on the provincial campaign plan, localities and units establish a campaign steering committee, develop a plan and organize the implementation of the campaign in accordance with the conditions of each locality and need to expand the target audience in the campaign. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the depth, quality and practical effectiveness in service provision, in order to meet the increasing demand for voluntary reproductive health care.

According to the plan, this year's campaign will be held in all communes, wards and towns across the province and divided into 2 phases, ending before November 30, 2024.

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Le Thanh Dung - Director of the Department of Population acknowledged and highly appreciated the population work of Nghe An province. This is clearly shown in the advisory work, always proactively seizing opportunities, knowing how to choose priority issues to resolutely direct the effective implementation of population and development work; the organization of communication - consultation activities associated with the provision of reproductive health care/family planning services and improving population quality are widely organized with many different subjects.

In the coming time, the Ministry of Health hopes that Party committees and authorities from the provincial to the grassroots levels will continue to pay attention to directing and investing in population work. We hope that the team working on Population - Health in Nghe An will continue to promote the achievements and make more efforts to overcome the current difficulties and challenges facing Nghe An's population work.

On this occasion, the Management Board of Project 818 - Department of Population - Ministry of Health presented 10 gifts to families that have well implemented population policies in Ky Son district./.