VACHE Chairman Nguyen Hong Quan said community health education is an urgent but also long-term issue.

The association, founded 10 years ago, now has four research institutes, 22 centres and thousands of branches and clubs with tens of thousands of members, he highlighted.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (front, centre) and representatives of the Vietnam Association for Community Health Education pose for a photo at the meeting in Hanoi on January 4.

He took this occasion to ask the Government to work out better mechanisms and policies to ensure that all people have health insurance and benefit from high-quality medical services with lower prices.

Quan also called for more favorable conditions for public-private partnership in health care, along with stronger mechanisms to strictly monitor the quality of medical services.

At the meeting, PM Phuc said the establishment of the VACHE is significant to the education on community health.

He spoke highly of the association’s practical and effective activities that have substantially helped with the care for people’s health.

The Government leader requested the VACHE to further gear its activities towards the elderly, children and ethnic minority people. It should make use of traditional medicine in community health care, attract more private funding for activities, and utilize its widespread network across the country.

The VACHE also needs to better join hands with the healthcare sector in communications to raise public awareness of serious diseases like cancers, he added.

Healthcare project sponsored by European Union benefits 12 localities

(BGO) – The Bac Giang provincial Association for Protection of Children’s Rights on September 6 cooperated with Italian Centre for Aid to Children (CIAI) in Vietnam to hold a kickoff meeting introducing about the project of “Health for all: Improving the participation of social and political organizations in maternal and child health care delivery system in Bac Giang province”.

 

Project to give healthcare, rehabilitation support to AO victims

The Ministry of Health launched a project on August 29, providing specific health care services and rehabilitation therapy to dioxin/Agent Orange (AO) victims for the 2018-2021 period.

 

Health sector facilitates universal healthcare coverage in 2018: minister

The health sector is implementing a range of core tasks in 2018 towards universal healthcare coverage as set by the sixth plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has stated.

 

Bac Giang works to improve healthcare service quality, self-reliance

(BGO) – Bui Van Hai, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Bac Giang Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council, has held a working session with the Department of Health on the implementation of financial self-reliance mechanism in public non-productive agencies and the mechanism of calculating service prices of the health sector.

 

Local healthcare development programme approved

The Prime Minister has approved the local healthcare investment and development programme for 2016-2020.

 

Source: VNA