Providing health checkup for a patient in a clinic in Vinh Tuong district of Vinh Phuc (Photo: VNA)
Vinh Phuc (VNA) – The northern province
of Vinh Phuc has paid due attention this year to training its
and improving systems in a coordinated manner, to meet the healthcare needs of local
people.
It has viewed the provision of healthcare as an urgent
task and enhanced efforts in line with improvements in
public health.
To bolster the quality of medical examinations and
treatment, the province earmarked more than 3.3 trillion VND (142.66 million USD)
in the 2016-2020 period for infrastructure, including a 1,000-bed provincial
General Hospital and a 500-bed obstetric and paediatric hospital.
Vinh Phuc has completed the construction of a
hospital and clinic in Tam Dao district along with three other clinics in Vinh
Tuong and Song Lo districts and Phuc Yen city.
Some 94.16 billion VND has also been disbursed to
upgrade 72 health clinics in the local area.
The province boasts a strong contingency of 4,300
medical workers and all clinics meet national standards. It has 13 doctors and
32.1 hospital beds per 10,000 people, and has set itself a target of bringing
these figures to 15 and 40 by 2025.
Five satellite hospital projects on oncology,
cardiovascular diseases, obstetrics, paediatrics, and trauma surgery have been
rolled out, and medical facilities at the provincial and district level
equipped with the necessary modern machines.
Furthermore, 13 out of the 15 health facilities have
become financially independent, saving the State budget nearly 200 billion VND each
year and raising quality at local hospitals. The province’s
has also taken the initiative in administrative reform.
It has been stepping up efforts to curb the spread
of HIV/AIDS in the community, with a focus on communications work.
Aware that behaviour-changing educational and
communications activities are a key solution in fighting the disease, the
province has tried to diversify the forms of communications.
It has mobilised all types of mass communications,
from radio and TV to the network of public loudspeakers at the grassroots
level. Due regard has also been given to making content simple and relevant.
The province will continue to work to raise public
awareness about measures to prevent the transmission of HIV and eradicate
discrimination against HIV carriers.
Vinh Phuc was among the first COVID-19 hotspots in
Vietnam since the disease made its appearance in the country in January. Of the
first 16 positive cases recorded, Vinh Phuc had 11 and its rural Son Loi
commune alone reported seven cases – all due to a group of Vietnamese workers
returning from a training trip to China’s Wuhan, where the world’s first
COVID-19 infections were confirmed.
The 22-day lockdown effectively restricted all
incoming or outgoing travel from the commune with a population of 10,000,
aiming at containing the outbreak from spreading further in the community. It
was officially lifted at midnight on March 4.
has a large number of workers and foreign-invested
enterprises. Currently, 87,000 workers are working in industrial zones, mostly
in factories.
The provincial Management Board of Industrial Zones
said it has asked all enterprises to conduct preventive measures, including
spraying disinfectants, establishing checkpoints to check workers’ body
temperature, supplying face masks to workers and customers, washing hands with
disinfectant solution, and classifying and quarantining those returning from
epidemic-hit areas.
Provincial forces have regularly sent inspection
teams to factories to remind both enterprise leaders and workers to follow
regulations on the prevention of the disease.
Enterprises have been asked to provide timely and
accurate information on suspected cases and report to functional forces for
quarantine.
In addition, prevention of the disease has also been
tightened in apartment buildings./.
Source: VietnamPlus
