Thoroughly implement some Population - Family Planning policies

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of September 14 in Vinh city, the Provincial People's Committee held a conference to disseminate Resolution No. 170/2015/NQ - HDB dated July 10, 2015 of the Provincial People's Council and Decision No. 43/QD - HDB dated August 21, 2015 of the Provincial People's Committee regulating a number of population and family planning policies in the province and deploying key contents of population and family planning work in the coming time.

Comrade Dinh Thi Le Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference.

Attending the conference were representatives of leaders of departments, branches, unions, members of the Steering Committee for implementing population and family planning work in the province, leaders of People's Committees of districts, cities, towns and Population and Family Planning Centers in the whole province.

Comrade Dinh Thi Le Thanh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee delivered the opening speech at the conference.

Over the years, our province has always paid attention to population work, considering population work an important part of the province's socio-economic development strategy.

Despite significant progress, population and family planning work is still not really solid and has not achieved the replacement fertility rate as set out. The population size is large (ranked 4th in the country); the total fertility rate is high, among the top 10 provinces with the highest fertility rates in the country. The birth rate and the third child or more are still high, the gender imbalance and population aging rates are still at alarming levels and are major challenges...

Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Director of the Department of Health disseminated some key contents of Resolution 170 of the Provincial People's Council and Decision 43 of the Provincial People's Committee regulating some population and family planning policies in the province.

The implementation of population and family planning policies still has many limitations: the number of people violating population and family planning policies in recent years is still high, especially the situation of cadres, party members, and teachers giving birth to a third child or more still occurs in many localities, causing negative impacts on the movement to mobilize the masses to implement population and family planning policies. The handling of violations in some places is still confusing, untimely, showing deference and lacking deterrence... Therefore, the implementation of Resolution 170 of the Provincial People's Council and Decision 43 of the Provincial People's Committee is very necessary, suitable to the actual situation and tasks of population and family planning work in the new period.

Comrade Le Thi Hoai Chung - Head of the Department of Population and Family Planning deployed some key contents of population and family planning work in the coming time.

According to the plan, Resolution 170 of the Provincial People's Council and Decision 43 of the Provincial People's Committee will take effect from January 1, 2016. Notably, the reward level for communes, wards and towns that do not have people giving birth to a third child or more will be increased each year. Along with that, the handling of violations will also be amended to increase or decrease severity according to the actual situation in the current period.

Conference overview.

Concluding the working session, Comrade Dinh Thi Le Thanh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that localities need to closely follow the locality, deploy propaganda forms to each household, so that people can better understand the significance of the population and family planning policy for local development. In particular, for the policy to achieve its set goals, those working in population work must uphold their sense of responsibility, contribute many accurate, practical opinions and effective solutions to concretize decisions, in order to direct and effectively implement them in sectors and localities. After this conference, it is requested that relevant departments and sectors need to absorb them to direct, urge and inspect the population and family planning work in the whole province in the coming time to achieve the highest efficiency.

Ngoc Anh