Socialization of healthcare must be associated with improving the quality of medical examination and treatment for people.

(Baonghean.vn) - Following the morning meeting on December 1, chaired by comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee continued to listen and give opinions on the project 'Developing health care work towards socialization in the period 2016-2020'.

Also attending were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Deputy Secretaries of the Provincial Party Committee: Nguyen Xuan Duong - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Nguyen Van Thong, Le Quang Huy; comrades in the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, representatives of relevant departments and branches.

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee said that socialization of healthcare must be associated with streamlining the payroll (reducing the number of people receiving salaries from the state budget) associated with autonomy and improving the quality of medical examination and treatment for people.

Currently, the socialization of healthcare and the development of non-public healthcare facilities in Nghe An province are ranked 3rd after Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The whole province has 10 non-public hospitals, 1,127 beds/ total 8,102 beds, reaching 4 non-public beds/ 10,000 people (accounting for 14%).

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that the renaming and promulgation of the project

Socialized investment in non-public hospitals reached over 1,150 billion VND. Regarding human resources: non-public medical facilities have a total of 1,217 medical staff (accounting for more than 10% of the province's medical workforce). Medical examination and treatment activities in 5 years at non-public hospitals reached over 2 million people, accounting for 10% of the province's medical workforce).

An emergency surgery at Hospital 115. Photo: Tu Thanh

Medical examination and treatment activities in 5 years at non-public hospitals reached over 2 million people, accounting for 10% of the total number of medical examinations and treatments in the province, contributing to reducing the burden on non-public facilities. Regarding the socialization of medical equipment: By 2015, 21/36 units had socialized medical equipment (reaching a rate of 58.3%) with a budget of about 380 billion VND.

However, non-public medical facilities (private hospitals) are mainly concentrated in Vinh city (9/10 hospitals); the expansion of private hospitals is not in line with planning; there is a lack of medical human resources in both quantity and quality; the rate of participation in health insurance is low.

Comrade Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council said that in the solution to implement the project, it is not only necessary to pay attention to the innovation of medical equipment but also to the management of equipment use and the capacity of the technical team.

Therefore, the goal of the project "Developing health care work towards socialization in the period 2016-2020" is to maximize all resources for health care work, innovate and perfect the health system, improve the quality of disease prevention, medical examination and treatment, protect and care for people's health to reduce the burden on public health and reduce public investment budget.

Using robots for diagnosis and treatment at Nghe An Oncology Hospital. Photo courtesy.

After listening to the discussion on the solutions, the roadmap for implementing the project and the explanation of the health sector, concluding this content, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Dac Vinh highly appreciated the preparation of the contents of the draft project. However, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee noted that the legal basis of the project and preferential policies need to be put first to clarify the socialization goal.

In addition, the agency drafting the project must clarify the planning of the local health network and clearly define each type, associated with specific policies and mechanisms, from the smallest types such as the family doctor model to private clinics and hospitals. The Provincial Party Secretary also emphasized the need to clearly define the concept of socialization to distinguish it from social security policies; socialization of health care must be associated with streamlining the payroll (reducing the number of people receiving salaries from the state budget) associated with autonomy and improving the quality of medical examination and treatment for the people./.

Khanh Ly