Good Health Care for Everyone

Regarding disease prevention activities, the provincial health sector has launched many campaigns such as National Campaign of Hand-Leg-Mouth epidemic prevention; the fight against Malaria, Influenza A/H5N1 and other dangerous infectious diseases etc. Consequently, epidemics have been under good control.

 

The province has also implemented well the Direction 06/CT-TW on consolidating and strengthening basic health care network, followed 10 national standards for health care at commune level in accordance with Decision No. 370/2002/QD-BYT by the Ministry of Health, performed good hospital management in order to improve professional quality and medical ethics, gradually develop hospitals to meet green-clean-beautiful standards, promote services of medical examination and treatment in the remote areas, islands and those with ethnic residents etc.

 

So far, at commune/ward level of the province, there have been 992 health officers, with 5-8 ones per clinic, including 65 commune-based doctors. Besides, all clinics at commune, ward and town level have midwives or obstetrical physicians while 67.7 percent of hamlets have health groups (641 groups/946 hamlets). By the end of 2012, Kien Giang had 127 out of 143 clinics at commune, ward and town level meet National Health Care standards, beating rate of 88.8 percent.

 

Kien Giang also saw significant development in private health care sector with total 1,358 units practicing private medicine and pharmacy, many other charity clinics which are to meet health care demand of the people and ease overload for hospitals at higher levels. There are now 158 treatment units across the province with total 3,580 sick-beds and average rate of using sick-beds at hospitals is 91.3 percent. In 2012, the sector saw total 4,800,000 health checks, equating 126.32 percent against the annual plan, exceeding by 20.33 percent year by year; meanwhile resident treatment witnesses 210,000 patients, beating 101.45 percent of the annual plan, up by 8.25 percent year by year.

 

However, investment into infrastructure, quality improvement in medical examination and treatment for people of Kien Giang health care sector will not end at that point. The overall sectoral objectives are to continue to stabilize and better health care network from provincial to local levels, actively prevent diseases, tightly monitor the epidemic factors, control and not let large epidemic occur in the locality, as well as be prepared to timely handle risks of epidemic; meanwhile, improve quality of medical examination and treatment, and implement socialization for professional improvement and diversification of medical services.

 

To reach the above objectives, Kien Giang is undertaking many measures. Firstly, Kien Giang health care sector will reinforce and better health care network, especially in remote areas to ensure people’s access to health care services of quality. Secondly, there will be an increase in investment into facilities and equipment, training for officers and it is targeted in 2013 that all commune medical clinics have doctors (clinic-based as well as rotated ones), all clinics have midwives or obstetrical physicians, 60 percent of the communes meet national criteria for commune health care in period 2011 – 2020, 80 percent of hamlets have operating health groups.

 

Kien Giang health sector has also recommended receiving investment from Government bonds to build provincial specialized hospitals, head offices and equip facilities for district medical preventive system. Besides, there is suggestion to review and modify some articles in Law on Medical Examination and Treatment and Circular 41/2011/TT-BYT on issuance of practice certificate for workers in medical examination and treatment, study policies on medical examination and treatment for the poor and thresholds.

 

Concerning localities, Kien Giang health care sector has recommended that there should be plan for addition and provision of fund for construction of District Medical Centre so that professional preventive medical activities could be implemented.

 

Regarding human resources, the sector proposes to prepare training officers for specialized hospitals which are under investment and construction, foster post-graduate specialized training in some areas such as internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, paediatrics, ENT (ear-nose and throat), odonto stomatology, visual diagnotics, endoscopy, cardiovascular, endocrine, oncology, contagion, testing etc.