The Hanoitimes - Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged the health sector to help overstrained hospitals
and improve the quality of treatment when addressing the sector’s video conference
to launch its 2013 tasks in Hanoi .
He asked the sector to concentrate on
deploying a nation-wide health insurance programme to enable poor and near-poor
people to get insured when going to hospital, and reforming administrative
procedures to make treatment easier for everyone.
The Government leader also requested that the
sector should address gender imbalance and improve public awareness of family
planning and disease prevention.
In 2012, the health sector made improvements
in caring for people’s health. A Vietnamese person now enjoys a lifespan of 73
years. Vietnam is among a few countries that achieved its millennium
development goals, including those relating to the reduction of under-1 and
under-5 fatalities and malnutrition ahead of schedule.
The healthcare system has so far been
expanded to all levels, from the State to grassroots. To date, 100% of communes
and over 90% of hamlets have medical workers with 72% of communes being cared
by doctors. Up to 95% of communal healthcare centres have midwives or pediatric
physicians.
Around 68% of the population had health
insurance in 2012, which doubled the number recorded in 2001.
The number of healthcare workers for 10,000
people rose from 29.2 in 2001 to 34.4 in 2012.
In addition, high technologies have been
applied successfully, making the healthcare system comparable to developed
countries in the region.
However, overcrowded hospitals, unsound
policies to get various economic sectors involved in public healthcare
programmes and high hospital fee still remain, posing difficulties for the
sector to overcome
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