President and health care officials (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The preventive medicine sector must put human being at the centre of
its activities to and manage the health of people, said
President Tran Dai Quang.
The President on
December 5 met with health officials and workers who are presented with the
biennial Dang Van Ngu award by the Ministry of Health in recognition of their outstanding
contributions and achievements in .
In 2016, as many
as 119 collectives and individuals are honoured with the award.
President Quang
said the sector has made efforts, well coordinated with other sectors and
localities and mobilised every resource to achieve the targets set in the national
goal programmes, thus helping Vietnam complete the UN Millennium Goals in
reducing malnutrition and malaria, eradicating dangerous diseases and controlling
new diseases.
The State leader
recommended the sector to work harder so that it could detect emerging and
dangerous diseases to recommend advice and solutions as well as take necessary
measures to help people protect their health.
He also urged
the sector to boost scientific research, develop vaccine-production
technologies and increase international cooperation and exchanges of
information to enhance Vietnam’s position on the international arena.
In the past 60
years, the preventive medicine has developed comprehensively and achieved great
achievements like eradicating smallpox and polio, cutting infectious diseases
by thousands or hundreds times, providing vaccination for over 90 percent of children
aged under 12 months and increasing the rate of people accessing clean water
and sanitation.
The sector is
able to produce 10 out of 12 vaccines in the expanded immunisation programme
and is capable of taking tests on new diseases./.
Source: VietnamPlus
