Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (front, centre) and representatives of the pose for a photo at the meeting in Hanoi on January 4 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc
highlighted the importance of while meeting with
representatives of the Vietnam Association for Community Health Education
(VACHE) in Hanoi on January 4.
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.
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 favourable 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 utilise its widespread network
across the country.
The also needs to better join hands with
the healthcare sector in communications to raise public awareness of serious
diseases like cancers, he added. –VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
