Strengthening management of non-public medical practice

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of November 4, the Ministry of Health held a national online conference to strengthen state management of non-public medical practice.

The conference was chaired by Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan - Member of the Politburo, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Deputy Prime Minister and Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Health... Nghe An bridge was chaired by Comrade Thai Van Hang, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. Attending the conference were representatives of the Department of Health, leaders of the Provincial People's Committee Office, the Provincial General Hospital, leaders of a number of non-public medical and pharmaceutical establishments, leaders of medical centers, heads of health departments of districts, cities and towns in the province.

Nghe An bridge participates in the National Online Conference

According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, the country currently has 157 private hospitals, more than 30,000 private clinics and medical service facilities with more than 249,000 practitioners in this field, including 64,422 doctors... The private health system is encouraged and facilitated by the State to develop. Many private hospitals have applied advanced techniques in treatment, providing many quality health care services to the people, helping people to have easier access to medical examination and treatment services, contributing to reducing the overload of public hospitals.

However, the private medical practice still reveals many shortcomings and loopholes, typically violations: practicing beyond the scope of permitted professional activities. Abusing paraclinical (testing, X-ray...) to gain high profits, not posting prices or posting prices but charging higher than the listed prices... The reasons leading to this existence are: The person responsible for the technical expertise of private medical examination and treatment facilities does not really have a full understanding of the law; sanctions for administrative violations in medical examination and treatment are not strong enough, not deterrent enough, and have not mobilized local authorities and people to participate in inspecting and supervising private medical examination and treatment activities; the human resources participating in the management of private medical examination and treatment practices are still thin.

To strengthen state management of health care and rectify private medical examination and treatment activities, Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan, Politburo member, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Deputy Prime Minister requested: Departments of Health of provinces and cities continue to strengthen state management of health care at the local level, focusing on disseminating and educating the law on medical examination and treatment for practitioners and private medical examination and treatment facilities.

Coordinate with relevant departments and local authorities to strengthen the inspection and examination of private medical examination and treatment facilities in the area, have a mechanism to encourage people to monitor and detect violations of private medical examination and treatment facilities to notify the Department of Health and local authorities for timely handling; when inspecting and discovering violations of medical examination and treatment facilities, the Department of Health must handle them strictly in accordance with the provisions of law, not cover up or make light of violations, impose fines or recommend competent authorities to impose the highest level of fines, combined with other additional penalties; publicize the list of legal medical examination and treatment facilities and the scope of professional activities of these facilities for people and society to easily monitor and supervise.

Thanh Chung