Health Ministry starts strategy of health care for 2001-2005
Ha Noi, May 10 (VNA) -- The medical sector in the next ten years will focus on developing grassroots services, expanding medical insurance to all people, and renewing the mechanism of payment for medical treatment.
So said Health Minister Prof. Dr. Do Nguyen Phuong at a conference to start the implementation of a health care strategy for the 2001-2010 period held in Ha Noi, May 10.
The sector has set major tasks for this year, the first year of implementing the strategy. These include the active prevention of epidemics, the development of grassroots health care services, and the strengthening of hospital management. The sector plans to build three specialized medical centres and four colleges: dental, maxillo and facial surgery, convalescence, traditional medicine, and public health care. It will also carry out the national target programme on health care, develop health services for poor and mountainous people, improve the quality of domestically-made medicines and equipment, and expand medical insurance.--VNA
