Signing of media cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Health with VNA, VOV and VTV

On the afternoon of May 18 in Hanoi, the signing ceremony of the Communication Cooperation Program to improve people's health took place between the Ministry of Health, Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency and Vietnam Television.

Attending the signing ceremony were Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, General Director of Voice of Vietnam Nguyen Dang Tien, General Director of Vietnam News Agency Nguyen Duc Loi, General Director of Vietnam Television Tran Binh Minh, Deputy General Directors and reporters specializing in the health sector of the above three agencies.

Agencies signing the Communication Cooperation Program

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien stated: The program of coordination in communication to improve people's health is considered a legal framework for units under the Ministry of Health and the Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency and Vietnam Television to proactively coordinate more closely to increase the duration, content and quality of propaganda to enhance the dissemination of policies of the Party and State on health work; promptly convey full information on health sector activities to policy makers from the Central to local levels; orient information on health, create unity and consensus of the whole society and the whole society together with the health sector to participate in activities to care for and protect people's health.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Health proactively provides information related to the fields of the health sector to the media in general, especially the three agencies Vietnam News Agency, Vietnam Television and Voice of Vietnam.

The leaders of the Ministry of Health and these three major traditional agencies will direct their subordinate units and departments to regularly coordinate to provide and update information for propaganda and dissemination through mass media channels as quickly and accurately as possible.

Representatives of the Ministry of Health and the General Directors of the three press agencies signed the Communication Coordination Program to improve people's health in the period 2012-2016. In particular, focusing on propagating health policies, actively disseminating knowledge on disease prevention; responding to recommendations from policy makers, socio-political organizations and people on health sector activities to make appropriate adjustments; coordinating the orientation of health information to create consensus in society.

At the signing ceremony, representatives of the three press agencies expressed their thanks to the Ministry of Health for their close cooperation in the past time, and affirmed that the coordination of communication to improve people's health has existed for many decades. This cooperation program will contribute to continuing to promote that good tradition, in the context of medical information increasingly attracting the attention of the people. The three press agencies will actively coordinate with the Ministry of Health in a constructive spirit.

At the signing ceremony, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien presented commemorative medals to the comrades: General Director of Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency and Vietnam Television./.

According to VOV-M