Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the ceremony on June 30 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The
announced that it has completed providing online public
health services level 4 for all administrative procedures under the management
of the health sector after six months of implementation.
Launched in November 2019, the Ministry of Health’s
Public Service Portal, at ,
is the only portal to focus on all online public services of the health
ministry.
Speaking at a ceremony on June
30, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam praised the efforts of the
Ministry of Health and relevant sectors in completing the online public service
level 4 five years ahead of schedule.
The
Deputy PM also urged other ministries and agencies to quickly deploy and
complete the online public service at level 4.
Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said that in recent years, the
Ministry of Health has paid much attention to in efforts
to improve the efficiency of administration management, create transparency in
State agencies’ activities, and better serve people and businesses.
Since
2014, the health ministry has been one of the first ministries to implement a
complete online food safety service, meaning all works, from submitting,
supplementing, processing documents, collecting fees and returning results, are
implemented in a digital environment. The Ministry of Health was also one of
the first ministries to implement the mechanism since
2015. In 2019, the Ministry of Health’s Public Service Portal was officially
opened.
Long stressed that this was a
digital revolution in the health sector, contributing to change the face of the
health sector in the application of information technology.
The Ministry of Health
currently has 281 administrative procedures in 14 fields. By the end of 2019,
after five years of implementation, the ministry had built and put into operation 90 online
public services levels 3 and 4 in the fields of food safety and nutrition,
pharmaceuticals; cosmetics; medical equipment and facilities, training and
scientific research, information and technology, medical examination and
treatment, as well as preventive medicine with nearly 400 records received
every day.
The
Ministry of Health’s Public Service Portal has been successfully integrated
into the National Public Service Portal, National One-Stop Portal and local
public service systems to form a platform to support citizens and businesses.
From the beginning of January
to date, the health sector handled more than 33,400 files online, of which
4,919 in the equipment and medical field; 8,708 in food safety, 18,027 in drug
administration and 1,724 in administration of medical examination and
treatment, according to statistics from the health ministry.
Online public service at level 4 means service payments can be done online, and
transaction results are available either online or by post, upon request./.
Source: VietnamPlus
