Health care sector plans to strengthen grassroot services
Hai Phong, June 27 (VNA) -- The health sector plans to provide 80 percent of communes with doctors, all medical stations with midwives and villages with community-based medical workers.
This targets was established at a conference on consolidating and perfecting the grassroots medical system in the northern region, held in the northern port city of Hai Phong on June 25 and 26.
To reach the target, the health sector will consolidate and renew methods of operation, improve the quality and efficiency of the grassroots medical network, pay attention to supervision work and technical support for medical establishments at district and communal levels, and help reduce the overcrowding of patients at hospitals.
The sector will also strengthen the training of doctors, increase investment and technical equipment for grassroots infirmaries in mountainous, remote and isolated areas, and raise various agencies, branches, and mass organisations' responsibilities on developing the grassroots medical network.
The health sector has over the past 15 years supplied all communes with medical workers and controlled dangerous epidemics. In particular, the sector eradicated polio and leprosy nationwide according to the World Health Organisation's standards last year.
In northern provinces and cities, 77 percent of communes have been provided with doctors, 92 percent of medical stations with midwives and obstetricians and 65 percent of villages with community-based medical workers.--Enditem
