Minister, Resolution 72-NQ/TW shifts the focus from medical examination and treatment to comprehensive health care, how does the Ministry implement this orientation?
Minister Dao Hong Lan: Over the past time, the Party and State have issued many important guidelines, mechanisms, and policies to promote the development of the health sector. In which, Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW issued by the Politburo is a breakthrough orientation document, creating a basis for the cause of caring for, protecting, and improving people's health.
Resolution 72-NQ/TW is approached on the basis of taking people's health as the most valuable capital and the focus for serving and implementing tasks and solutions in the health sector. At the same time, the Resolution also clearly shows the spirit of removing "bottleneck points" in the health sector that have not been fundamentally resolved for a long time.
Resolution 72-NQ/TW has mentioned the contents of transformation in health work, in the direction of shifting from focusing mainly on medical examination and treatment to comprehensive health care; enhancing the role and importance of disease prevention work; early and remote health care for people.
The work of caring for, protecting and improving people's health will be closely linked to comprehensive health management and care over the life cycle. This is a very large change in the process of implementing the tasks of the health sector in the coming time.
With a focused approach to removing "bottleneck points", the Ministry of Health has reported and proposed for the Government to issue Resolution 282/NQ-CP on the Government's action program to implement Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW of the Politburo on a number of breakthrough solutions, strengthening protection, care and improving people's health and a specific, clear implementation plan, with clear progress.
It can be affirmed that after three months of implementing Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW, under the drastic direction and administration of the Government and the close coordination of ministries and sectors, the organization of implementation has been strongly promoted, creating initial changes.
Notably, localities have had clear movements in the process of building resolutions, programs, and plans to concretize the spirit of Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW of the Politburo; thereby forming practical projects, solutions and policies, suitable to the practical conditions of each locality.
One of the "bottlenecks" identified is the institution. In what direction will the Ministry of Health focus on removing this content, Minister?
Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW sets out the requirement to focus on removing the second "block" which is institutions. Reality in the past time shows that institutional inadequacies have created many bottlenecks in the organization of the tasks of the health sector.
Therefore, the remaining problems, as well as the development orientation of the health sector in the coming journey, will be focused on solving through the completion of institutions, policies and mechanisms for mobilizing and allocating resources. The consistent spirit is that when issuing policies, it is necessary to ensure close participation and coordination between the State and relevant stakeholders; and at the same time effectively combine public-private resources, promote the role of the people in organizing the implementation of the task of caring for, protecting and improving people's health. This approach aims to clearly establish the responsibility of the political system and the whole society for health care, and at the same time create conditions for policies to go into life in a substantive and effective way.
For the Ministry of Health, in the coming time, we will continue to review and improve regulations and mechanisms to remove "bottleneck points", ensuring the synchronous implementation of solutions mentioned in Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW. The Ministry of Health has registered a program to build laws for the next 5 years and the following years; in which, improving the quality of institutional building is identified as a key task, contributing to removing bottlenecks and overcoming gaps in the process of organizing the implementation of tasks of caring for, protecting and improving people's health.
Along with perfecting the institution, the requirement is to ensure suitability, feasibility and effectiveness of implementation. Accordingly, policy development and promulgation need to be closely linked to the implementation mechanism and participation of relevant stakeholders; ensure clarity and transparency in practice; mobilize the involvement of all levels, sectors and the whole society in caring for, protecting and improving people's health. This is also the basis for the health sector to synchronously implement tasks and solutions in the coming time, in accordance with the spirit of Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW.
Minister, please tell us, in mobilizing resources, combining state resources, health insurance funds, the private sector and the participation of the people, what will be the focus of implementation?
Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW has introduced breakthrough solutions on mobilizing resources, including both public and private resources; and at the same time emphasized the role, responsibility and participation of people in the process of organizing the implementation of healthcare solutions.
Accordingly, to effectively promote resources for the health sector, in addition to state resources, the focus is on implementing the National Target Program in the next ten years with specific solutions, ensuring the highest efficiency. Along with that, it is necessary to mobilize and effectively use other resources, including the management and use of the health insurance fund associated with the goal of universal health insurance; promote the role of the health work force in the private sector; and strengthen the participation of people in self-care and protection of their health.
Innovating mechanisms and ensuring resources for people's health care in the coming time requires specific solutions to mobilize and synthesize all resources. The consistent approach is to strengthen coordination, promote the participation of all levels, sectors and related stakeholders; and at the same time institutionalize with clear and transparent policies, creating a basis for effective implementation in practice.
Minister, please tell us how the institutionalization of the policy of Resolution 72-NQ/TW has been and is being implemented, especially through documents submitted at the 10th session of the National Assembly?
To implement Resolution 72-NQ/TW, in the past time, in addition to actively submitting to the Government and the Government has issued very specific action programs and implementation plans as I said above, the Ministry of Health has advised in the 14th session of the National Assembly on many very important documents to concretize these contents.
First, develop a National Assembly Resolution on specific and breakthrough solutions in the field of people's health care and protection;
Second, submit to the National Assembly for approval the Law on Disease Prevention and the Population Law; in which the Law on Disease Prevention has mechanisms and policies to institutionalize the contents that people are very interested in in Resolution 72-NQ/TW, such as people's health care according to life cycles; disease prevention is focused as an initial solution in the work of caring for, protecting and improving people's health with specific policies. This is an important basis for the Ministry of Health to coordinate with ministries, departments, and branches to develop specific implementation plans in the coming time.
Third, the Ministry of Health has advised and submitted the National Target Program on health development and population policy in the next ten years, ensuring resources for implementing policies; when institutions and policies are promulgated, there are resources for implementation.
We believe that this is a great effort, and people are also looking forward to specific solutions to be implemented in the near future. Thereby, it will contribute to comprehensive health care for people for a healthy Vietnam.
At the same time, with three approaches from changing thinking and awareness, from resolution solutions and specific policies to ensuring resource allocation for implementation, implementation has been and is being implemented synchronously from the Central to local levels.
With human resources and digital transformation, how does the Minister focus to meet the requirements of comprehensive health care for people, from early, remote and right at the grassroots level?
A "block" clearly stated in Resolution 72-NQ/TW is removing difficulties in human resources to ensure the implementation of health mechanisms and policies.
We must focus on training the contingent of officials and employees of the health sector; consider training health workers as a special profession. Therefore, the issues of removing mechanisms and policies on special training for the health sector have been clearly shown in the viewpoint of the Politburo's Resolution.
At the same time, the care for the human resources of the health sector, especially the human resources at grassroots healthcare, preventive medicine and areas that need support for development, is also proposed by Resolution 72-NQ/TW as a basis for concretizing in legal normative documents and solutions for practical implementation in the coming time.
Another important task is to create a mechanism for the grassroots health system to develop. To implement the goal of taking care of people's health early, remotely and right at the grassroots level, recently the Ministry of Health has completed tasks related to implementing health care for people at the grassroots level. Through the implementation process, great consensus and support have been created, including changes in form, as well as strengthening the functions and tasks of grassroots health.
Localities also support and implement with many solutions. For example, Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Ho Chi Minh City and many other provinces and cities have solutions to implement the tasks mentioned in Resolution 72-NQ/TW with very specific activities and are supported by the people.
Along with that, the task of improving the quality of human resource training in the health sector is also set out. Resolution 72-NQ/TW sets out orientations, and the Ministry of Health has coordinated with the Ministry of Education and Training in the process of perfecting the legal system on training, including content related to the development orientation of human resource training in the health sector.
In addition, with the mechanism on regimes and policies for officials and employees of the health sector and policies on human resource use at grassroots levels, in the coming time, many solutions will be developed and put forward to attract the contingent of officials and employees of the health sector in general; focusing on priority areas such as preventive medicine, the contingent of officials and employees of health workers working in communes and wards - which are places to directly care for people right at the grassroots level.
A next solution is to strengthen international cooperation, apply science and technology and digital transformation in the healthcare sector. This is a strength that the Ministry has focused on implementing in the past time.
Currently, the development and application of electronic medical records, electronic health records; building databases for the health sector; applying artificial intelligence in scientific research; digital transformation in the health sector to be more convenient, more suitable and access science and technology to strengthen people's health care is being developed and implemented very drastically by the Ministry of Health with specific solutions.
With that spirit, the use of domestic resources, while absorbing scientific and technological advances from the world, will create a stronger development step in implementing specific solutions, supporting the work of caring for and protecting people's health.
Thank you very much, Minister!
