Grassroots healthcare improves public health: workshop
The Ministry of Health and the World Bank in Vietnam held a workshop in Hanoi on March 27 to discuss the orientations for developing grassroots healthcare in the new context.
A medical worker gives advice to a resident in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministryof Health and the World Bank in Vietnam held a workshop in Hanoi on March 27 todiscuss the orientations for developing grassroots healthcare in the newcontext.
Deputy Minister of Health Do XuanTuyen said the Party, National Assembly, and Government have issued manypolicies to improve grassroots healthcare, includingDirective 06-CT/TW on consolidating grassroots healthcare, issued by the 9th Party Central Committee’s Secretariat onJanuary 22, 2002.
The Secretariat has assigned the ministry’s Party Civil Affairs Committee to drafta directive on developing grassroots healthcare in the new context. The draftshould be submitted to the Secretariat in May, he noted.
After 20 years of implementing Directive 06-CT/TW, Party committees andadministrations from the central to grassroots levels have showed considerableimprovements in the awareness of the importance of grassroots healthcare. Communities consider the consolidation of grassroots healthcareas a crucial task in socio-economic development plans.
A medical worker gives check-up to a patient at the Hospital of Traditional Medicine in Lai Chau province. (Photo: VNA)
As a result, basic health indexes ofVietnamese people have improved remarkably after 20 years. For example, theaverage life expectancy increased from 71.3 in 2002 to 73.6 in 2022, higherthan the global average of 73 and many countries with the similar per capitaincome level. The coverage of essential health services reached 70 out of 100points in 2020, higher than the average of 61 in Southeast Asia and 67 in theworld. Vietnam has also gained respect from the international community forits realisation of the Millennium Development Goals.
Those achievements were largelycontributed by the grassroots healthcare network, participants opined.
However, there remains certain shortcomings, they pointed out, elaborating thatgrassroots health services are focused on treatment while lacking due attentionto disease prevention, management, and early detection. The system is alsofacing numerous challenges such as rapid population aging, an increase innon-communicable diseases, and unpredictable developments of newepidemics.
They agreed on measures mentioned in the draft directive, including enhancingParty committees and administrations’ sense of responsibility, upgrading infrastructure, reforming communal-levelmedical facilities and financial mechanism, increasing manpowerfor grassroots healthcare, and stepping up health education./.
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A medical worker gives advice to a resident in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA) 
A medical worker gives check-up to a patient at the Hospital of Traditional Medicine in Lai Chau province. (Photo: VNA) 
