Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has just signed Decision No. 201/QD-TTg dated February 27, 2024 of the Prime Minister approving the Health Facility Network Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050.
Strive to have 15 doctors per 10,000 people by 2025. Photo: BVCC
Associate Professor, Dr. Phan Le Thu Hang – Deputy Director of the Department of Financial Planning (Ministry of Health) said: The medical facility network planning approved at this time is very important, creating strategic direction. , the legal basis as well as the motivation for the health sector to develop a network of medical facilities.
Planning objects include 5 regional, inter-provincial and interdisciplinary medical facilities in the fields of medical examination, treatment, and rehabilitation; Medical examination, forensic examination and forensic psychiatric examination; Preventive medicine, public health; Testing, inspection, and standardization of drugs, cosmetics, food, vaccines and medical biological products, medical equipment, pharmaceutical production, vaccines, medical biological products and medical equipment; the field of population – reproductive health.
The medical facility network planning does not include state management units in charge of health (Departments, Departments, General Departments, Sub-Departments…) nor does it include local medical facilities (which are within the scope of provincial planning). Instead, the Health Facility Network Plan provides principled directions to guide localities to include the local health facility network component in the province’s overall planning.
Orientation in developing the network of medical facilities towards equity, efficiency, development and international integration through developing technical and professional capacity at the intensive care level (in which some hospitals are developed Developing a modern, high-tech specialized hospital, on par with developed countries in the region and internationally);
Increase the total supply of specialized end-of-care services, including the total supply and supply of specialized end-of-care services of a number of priority specialties such as oncology, cardiology, obstetrics/obstetrics – pediatrics, geriatrics , rehabilitation, traditional medicine, infectious disease;
Improve the geographical distribution of hospitals providing tertiary care services to improve geographic accessibility (upgrade some general hospitals and provincial-level specialized hospitals to undertake regional functions, develop a network of satellite facilities of central hospitals, build a number of new central hospitals in the Central Highlands and Mekong Delta regions..);
For the field of preventive medicine and public health: Forming the Central Disease Control Agency (with a level 4 biosafety laboratory system) and 3 regional Disease Control Centers (with biosafety laboratory system level 3) attached to the existing Institutes of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Pasteur to take on the role of connecting and supporting provincial disease control centers.
For the field of testing, inspection, and calibration: Develop technical and professional capacity at both the national and regional levels through improving the capacity of national specialized institutes (developing a system of reference laboratories). screening, developing medical equipment testing and calibration centers, upgrading bioequivalence assessment centers…); Develop 6 Regional Testing Centers in 6 socio-economic regions, upgrade Medical Testing Quality Control Centers to undertake regional functions.
For the field of medical assessment, forensic assessment and forensic psychiatric assessment: Improve capacity and facilities of medical assessment units, forensic assessment, and forensic psychiatric assessment now available. Construction of a new regional forensic examination facility in Ho Chi Minh City; 2 regional forensic psychiatric assessment facilities in Nghe An and Ho Chi Minh City.
For the field of population and reproductive health: Develop specialized technical services on reproductive support, screening, diagnosis and early treatment of prenatal and neonatal diseases and disabilities associated with specialized hospitals. obstetrics/obstetrics – pediatrics department, hospital with obstetrics/obstetrics – pediatrics department. Develop 6 existing regional prenatal and neonatal screening and diagnosis centers in the Red River Delta, North Central and Coastal regions Central Coast, Southeast and Mekong Delta. Forming 2 regional centers for prenatal and neonatal screening and diagnosis in the Northern midlands and mountainous regions, Central Highlands…
