Comprehensive health care for the city's residents
On May 26, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee issued a decision approving the Comprehensive Health Care Project for the City's residents and a number of solutions to contribute to increasing the total birth rate for the period 2025 - 2030.
Faced with increasing difficulties and challenges in the new context such as low birth rate, population aging, double burden of disease, disease model transformation and the need for comprehensive health care, the requirement for the Ho Chi Minh City health sector is to promptly have synchronous solutions to ensure that all people can live healthy, have their health managed throughout their life, thereby accessing quality health services at reasonable costs.
The Comprehensive Health Care Project for the City's residents and a number of solutions contribute to increasing the total birth rate for the period 2025 - 2030, contributing to ensuring that all people in Ho Chi Minh City have access to comprehensive, continuous, and high-quality medical services.
At the same time, it creates an important premise to improve the health of mothers, children, workers and the elderly; contributing to increasing the total birth rate, improving population quality and human resources, serving the sustainable development of the city in the future.
Solutions to increase the total birth rate
One of the implementation contents of the project is to implement solutions to increase the total birth rate. Ho Chi Minh City is in the group of 21 provinces and cities with the lowest total birth rate in the country. On that basis, Ho Chi Minh City needs to promote state management of population to find solutions to solve the low birth rate situation.
At the same time, research, promulgate or propose to competent authorities to issue support and encouragement policies for couples with 2 children based on analysis and assessment of the impact of policies on labor, employment, housing; social welfare, education, health care... related to having few children.
Strengthen propaganda related to increasing the city's birth rate; have policies to support infertility treatment for poor, near-poor, and disadvantaged households; pilot the provision of reproductive health care services, family planning, supporting mothers during pregnancy and raising children online via social networks;...
The total birth rate in Ho Chi Minh City in 2024 is 1.39 children, much lower than the national 1.91 children. Statistics from 2000 to present show that the city's total fertility rate has continuously decreased, down to a very low in 2016 of 1.24, a very small recovery trend in the direction of increase in 2013 of 1.68.
Low birth rate will lead to rapid changes in population structure, the population aging rate will occur very quickly. This creates increasing pressure on the social security system, directly affecting the natural population growth rate, reducing human resources, especially young labor, long-term affecting the socio-economic development of the city.
Medical examination and treatment network in Ho Chi Minh City
Up to now, the medical examination and treatment network in Ho Chi Minh City has 135 hospitals (12 hospitals under ministries and branches, 32 city hospitals, 19 district hospitals and 72 private hospitals), district health centers, Thu Duc City (including 04 health centers with inpatient beds), health stations.
Ho Chi Minh City has more than 8,000 private clinics along with an out-of-hospital emergency network including the 115 Emergency Center and 43 satellite emergency stations.
In parallel with the treatment system, the city's preventive health system and the network of health stations in wards, communes and towns have also developed strongly and implemented well the preventive work such as warning, detecting, controlling epidemics, implementing reproductive health care programs, children's health, expanded immunization and many other disease prevention activities.
