Pilot project sends doctors to poor districts

in poor districts (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – As many as 78 young doctors have been
recruited for a on sending doctors to disadvantaged areas
including mountainous and border areas and islands as of  June, the Health Ministry said at a press
conference in Hanoi on June 22.

The doctors will receive intensive training before being
assigned to work in 37 poor districts in 13 provinces.

The will hold a ceremony on June 28 to send
seven young doctors to Bac Ha district, the northern mountainous province of
Lao Cai.

The pilot project, approved by the Health Ministry in 2013, gives
priority to 62 poorest districts, towards improving at the
grassroots level.

Head of the Organisation and Personnel Department Pham Van
Tac said those poor districts need about 600 doctors.

The ministry has partnered with the Hanoi Medical University
to devise framework and detailed training curricula for doctors trained under
the project.

Pham Van Tac said the project will continue working with
hospitals to recruit qualified doctors for the project.-VNA