Seminar looks at ways to improve medical services supply
The Examination and Treatment Management Department hosted a seminar on designing a project to improve the provision of medical checkup and treatment services in Hanoi on April 5.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Examination and TreatmentManagement Department hosted a seminar on designing a project to improve theprovision of medical checkup and treatment services in Hanoi on April 5.
Addressing the seminar, Deputy Minister ofHealth Nguyen Viet Tien said despite remarkable improvement in recent years, themedical service system still showed many shortcomings, including theovercrowded conditions at national-level hospitals.
The official stressed the seminar is partof the Health Ministry’s plan of actions to implement the Party CentralCommittee’s Resolution 20-NQ-TW on boosting health care work and improving publichealth.
Head of the Examination and Treatment ManagementDepartment Luong Ngoc Khue told the seminar that Vietnam is home to 1,451public hospitals, of which 39 are centrally run, and 492 and 645 others arerespectively run by provincial and district authorities. The private healthsector has 219 hospitals and 31,594 clinics.
Khue said the project on improving theprovision of medical services aims at providing access to affordable andquality treatments for all people.
Participants were informed on medicalservice models in regional countries like Thailand, the Philippines, andSingapore, as well as in developed countries such as Canada and the Republic ofKorea. They also heard reports by a number of health agencies onadvantages/disadvantages in managing health services providers and theirsuggestions for improvement of the system.-VNA
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