Handling responsibilities for collectives and individuals who do not implement
On July 1, information from the Ministry of Finance said that Deputy Minister Ta Anh Tuan signed Official Dispatch No. 9037 on the transfer of public assets of Yen Bai GTVT Hospital.
According to the Ministry of Finance, implementing Decision No. 1922 of the Prime Minister on reorganizing the Department of Transport Health under the Ministry of Transport (now the Ministry of Construction), 16 medical examination and treatment facilities in the transport sector have been transferred to local management.
Based on the proposal of the Ministry of Construction and current regulations on management and use of public assets, the Ministry of Finance has issued Decision No. 2182 dated June 26, 2025 on the transfer of all houses, land, vehicles, machinery, and equipment of Yen Bai GTVT Hospital from the Ministry of Construction to Yen Bai Provincial People's Committee (now Lao Cai province) for management.
According to regulations, within 30 days from the date of the transfer decision, relevant agencies must complete the handover, receipt, accounting of asset increase and decrease, registration of ownership rights, use rights and declaration of asset changes.
In case of not implementing or slow implementation, administrative violations in the field of management and use of public assets may also be penalized.
However, according to the report of the Ministry of Construction in Official Dispatch No. 7980 dated May 29, 2026, the handover and receipt of assets of Yen Bai GTVT Hospital has not yet been completed.
The Ministry of Finance assesses that the slow implementation is not strictly implementing the decisions that have been issued as well as the provisions of law on management and use of public assets.
Faced with this reality, the Ministry of Finance requested the Ministry of Construction and the People's Committee of Lao Cai province to direct relevant agencies to urgently complete the handover and reception of the hospital and all accompanying assets in accordance with regulations. At the same time, consider handling responsibilities for collectives and individuals who do not perform or are slow to perform assigned tasks.
Workers continue to wait
According to Lao Dong's investigation, for many years Yen Bai GTVT Hospital has been considered one of the "bottlenecks" in the process of arranging and transferring transport sector medical units to local management.
The prolonged delay in handover has caused dozens of officials and employees to fall into a situation of late salaries and social insurance debt for many years, greatly affecting their lives and working psychology.
At the working session on May 26, 2026 between the Department of Transport Health, Lao Cai Provincial Department of Health and relevant agencies, the two sides have not yet found common ground on the hospital reception plan.
The Ministry of Construction and the Department of Transport Health believe that the transfer must be carried out in accordance with Decision No. 1922 of the Prime Minister, i.e., the locality receiving the hospital in its original state, including the organizational structure, personnel and all assets.
Meanwhile, Lao Cai province is studying a plan to dissolve the unit after receiving it. According to this direction, personnel will be considered for arrangement and transfer; assets must be reviewed and re-evaluated before receiving and not accept the hospital's operating apparatus in its original state.
Besides the obstacles in the organizational model, the handling of public assets is also a content with many different opinions. Lao Cai Provincial Department of Finance proposed to hire a consulting unit to review and re-determine the value of assets before receiving them.
However, the Department of Transport Health believes that the Ministry of Finance's transfer decision clearly stipulates that the handover is carried out in the form of transferring the original state of public assets between state agencies, without requiring re-appraisal of the value of assets.
By June 2026, after 12 officials were assigned to new jobs, the hospital still had 4 officials and employees waiting for job placement and related benefits.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hai Hoan - chief accountant of Yen Bai Transport Hospital - said that because she has to stay to handle backlogs and serve the handover work, she and 3 other officials have not yet been able to transfer jobs.
We really hope the hospital handover will be completed soon so that the remaining people can find jobs. At the same time, pay off debts related to salaries and social insurance that have lasted for many years," Ms. Hoan shared.
