New national strategy eyes quality healthcare services for all

Providing free medicine for war veteran in Bac Giang province (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – on January 23
signed a decision approving a to protect, care for and
improve people’s health to 2030, with a vision to 2045, which targets everyone to
enjoy .

Under the strategy, Vietnam also strives to
ensure its people live in a safe community, and well develop physically and
mentally, thus contributing to improving the quality of life as well as of the human resources for the nation building and safeguarding cause.

Accordingly, the prevention and control of
diseases, especially emerging infectious ones, will be strengthened, and the health security ensured to promptly respond to climate change and
public health emergencies.

Attention will be paid to improving the
quality and efficiency of the health service supply network from the central to the grassroots level to respond to changing disease patterns, international
integration and the fourth industrial revolution; maintaining replacement
fertility levels; reducing fertility differences between regions and groups; and
developing the human resources in terms of quantity, quality and structure.

By 2045, the healthcare system will improve the
quality of services on a par with advanced countries in the region, meeting
increasing and diverse needs of the people and achieving the universal healthcare
coverage.

To improve people’s health, the strategy puts
forth solutions such as speeding up the implementation of the Vietnam Health
Programme and the hygiene movement to improve people’s health; improving
the health of mothers, new-borns and children; and reducing the rate of
children with disabilities, with priority given to ethnic-inhabited,
mountainous and border areas, and islands.

will increase investment in
preventive health networks and testing capacity to ensure sufficient capacity
to forecast, monitor and detect epidemics early, and control them promptly and
effectively.

The strategy also targets equality in
accessing medical check-up and treatment services./.