On September 22, the Government Office announced that Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh - Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution No. 18 - signed Plan 130 on the arrangement of public service units, state-owned enterprises, and organizations within the state administrative system.
For hospitals, the Steering Committee thoroughly grasps the continued arrangement and transfer of a number of hospitals under the Ministry of Health to provincial management, the Ministry of Health manages a number of high-tech, leading hospitals to carry out professional direction tasks, train high-quality human resources, scientific research, transfer techniques, coordinate disease prevention and control, emergency events on public health, natural disasters, disasters, and health security.
Completely improve the capacity of the preventive health system in a modern direction, with the capacity to monitor, warn early, promptly control epidemics and proactively organize and implement disease prevention and control activities. Strengthen the implementation of the Expanded Immunization Program in terms of both scope and vaccination subjects.
In the locality, the Steering Committee requires public service units in the health sector to seriously implement Resolution No. 72 dated September 9, 2025 of the Politburo on a number of breakthrough solutions, strengthen protection, care and improve people's health.
Complete the modern preventive health system, have the capacity to monitor, warn early, promptly control epidemics and proactively organize and deploy disease prevention activities.
Maintain existing provincial-level public hospitals; promote socialization in places with sufficient conditions. Each province and city has at least 1 hospital that meets the specialized level; there is a geriatric hospital or a general hospital with a geriatrics department.
Establish commune, ward, special area health stations under the People's Committee at the commune level and medical examination points on the basis of previous commune-level health stations to meet the needs of disease prevention, primary health care, and basic medical examination and treatment for local people.
Improving the quality and efficiency of grassroots health care. Focus on perfecting the functions and tasks, organizing the apparatus of commune-level health stations according to the model of public service units, ensuring the provision of basic and essential services on disease prevention, primary health care, medical examination, treatment and social care services.
Transfer the previous district-level medical center and general hospital to the health department to organize care, examination and treatment in the inter-ward and commune areas.
