Staff at an HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Centre in HCM City consult a patient. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - More than 1,200 health care managers will neednew jobs when provincial centres for preventive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and othersare merged into one general Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in each province,as required by the Ministry of Health by 2021.
Speaking at a recent meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Pham Van Tac, head of theministry’s staff arrangement department, said it is necessary to establish theCDCs, but provinces are now facing difficulties in finding new jobs forlaid-off managers.
The meeting, organised by the ministry, was held to provide guidance on agovernment circular that outlines the functions, authority and organisationalstructure of the provincial CDCs in the southern region.
Each province has six preventive health centres which have a total of sixdirectors and 18 deputy directors. However, only one director and three deputydirectors will remain at each centre after the CDCs are formed.
At least 1,200 managers will need new jobs, excluding the thousands of officersin other departments such as administration, accounting staff and drivers.
Le Van Tam, Vice Chairman of the Can Tho People’s Committee, said the MekongDelta city has five preventive health centres, each of which has around 180employees. The city has no choice but to wait for leaders to retire before thenew merger is completed, he said.
Ton That Ngoc Hanh, Vice Chairman of the Central Highland Dak Nong province’sPeople’s Committee, said that since his province was established only 13 yearsago, the staffing issue is more serious as younger employees would not retire.
HCM City has seven preventive health centres, all of which will be graduallyclosed and merged into the CDC before 2012, according to Nguyen Tan Binh, Directorof the HCM City’s Department of Health.
However, the city has many state-owned companies, so employees can be shiftedto other state-owned service units or medical establishments.
He said the municipal Department of Health would not appoint new people ifmanagers or directors at the centres retired from now to 2021.
At the conference, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long asked localitiesto cut ineffective and unnecessary units but to retain the number of doctors atpreventive health centres.
Twenty-seven of the country’s 63 provinces and cities have already set up a CDCby merging their preventive health centres, according to the ministry.
Local authorities should embrace the changes, even if there are difficulties,Long said, adding that the ministry is reforming the health care system toprovide better care for the public.-VNA
Speaking at a recent meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Pham Van Tac, head of theministry’s staff arrangement department, said it is necessary to establish theCDCs, but provinces are now facing difficulties in finding new jobs forlaid-off managers.
The meeting, organised by the ministry, was held to provide guidance on agovernment circular that outlines the functions, authority and organisationalstructure of the provincial CDCs in the southern region.
Each province has six preventive health centres which have a total of sixdirectors and 18 deputy directors. However, only one director and three deputydirectors will remain at each centre after the CDCs are formed.
At least 1,200 managers will need new jobs, excluding the thousands of officersin other departments such as administration, accounting staff and drivers.
Le Van Tam, Vice Chairman of the Can Tho People’s Committee, said the MekongDelta city has five preventive health centres, each of which has around 180employees. The city has no choice but to wait for leaders to retire before thenew merger is completed, he said.
Ton That Ngoc Hanh, Vice Chairman of the Central Highland Dak Nong province’sPeople’s Committee, said that since his province was established only 13 yearsago, the staffing issue is more serious as younger employees would not retire.
HCM City has seven preventive health centres, all of which will be graduallyclosed and merged into the CDC before 2012, according to Nguyen Tan Binh, Directorof the HCM City’s Department of Health.
However, the city has many state-owned companies, so employees can be shiftedto other state-owned service units or medical establishments.
He said the municipal Department of Health would not appoint new people ifmanagers or directors at the centres retired from now to 2021.
At the conference, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long asked localitiesto cut ineffective and unnecessary units but to retain the number of doctors atpreventive health centres.
Twenty-seven of the country’s 63 provinces and cities have already set up a CDCby merging their preventive health centres, according to the ministry.
Local authorities should embrace the changes, even if there are difficulties,Long said, adding that the ministry is reforming the health care system toprovide better care for the public.-VNA
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