Tra Vinh medical industry always strives to apply the principle that all people are entitled to the best healthcare services. The industry lays special focus on infrastructure investment and services so that people can have the best access to health services of high quality. Modern medicine and traditional medicine are combined harmoniously in healthcare work.
According to Mr Nguyen Van Thang, Deputy Director of Provincial Health Office of Tra Vinh, the objective of the health sector is to reduce the rate of morbidity, disability and death, control infectious diseases, common and emerging epidemic diseases, and disease outbreaks. The province will try to maintain the achievement of elimination of polio, neonatal tetanus, and leprosy, encourage the use of vaccines to prevent other diseases and control the risk factors of non-infectious diseases, school illness, diseases related to environment, lifestyle, behaviour and food safety. Prevention is pursued with prompt actions and timely treatment.
In 2011, the Tra Vinh health sector received a total of 1.6 million visitors for health examination and treatment. In particular, the health sector implemented well the prevention and fight against epidemics, especially those such as hand-foot-mouth disease with 1,607 cases but no deaths, and 463 cases of betechial fever but no deaths. Malaria was reduced with only 01 death among 110 cases.
To be able to meet the medical needs of the people in the province, the health sector continued to improve the quality of medical services, treatment and rehabilitation at all levels, reducing overload in hospitals. The sector will take advantage of resources to modernize the health sector, develop specialized health facilities and medical socialization, expand examination and treatment service, combine modern medicine with traditional medicine, improve population quality, meet the needs of family planning, and increase access to high-quality maternity health services.
The health sector also focuses on promotion of training and the development of health human resources in both quantity and quality, enhancement of healthcare resources associated with the implementation of Plan 1816 of the Ministry of Health to ensure balance between training and use of health human resources.
Attention is also paid to innovation of mechanisms for medical financial management, infrastructure investment and medical equipment. Focus is laid on the adjustment of the allocation and use of health care finance in an effective way, enhancement of management ability, implementation of policies on health law, administrative reform, health information system administration, monitoring and evaluation, inspection and investigation.
Mr Thang also said that under the 2012 plan, the province will have 127 medical examination and treatment establishments with 1620 beds, including 500 beds from provincial general hospitals, 100 beds from Traditional Medicine Hospital, 100 beds from Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Hospital and 400 beds from 02 general hospitals in Cau Nganh and Tieu Can areas. 01 military medical hospital, 04 district general hospitals including 01 medical clinic achieve the rate of 16.20 beds / 10,000 residents.
In 2012, the Tra Vinh health sector continues to consolidate and complete the network of health facilities to better meet the growing medical demand for local people. The province will realize the implementation of national health criteria, striving to help 55 percent of communes, wards and townships to meet criteria for the national health (period 2011-2020) as regulated by the Ministry of Health.
Dieu Ha
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