On the morning of December 2, the National Assembly discussed in plenary session in the hall the draft Resolution on a number of breakthrough mechanisms and policies in protecting, caring for and improving people's health; reviewing the investment policy of the National Target Program on health care, population and development.
Sharing opinions on the issue of training medical human resources, delegate Tran Khanh Thu (Hung Yen delegation) said that the new draft Resolution outlines postgraduate training policies in some majors but does not have a breakthrough solution related to creating human resources early from afar.
Delegate Tran Khanh Thu emphasized that human resources, especially health human resources, always play an important role in deciding the success or failure of community health care. Current grassroots health workers do not really meet the requirements, cannot be an attractive place and ensure the conditions for professional development of each doctor.
Ms. Thu cited a report by the Ministry of Health, the whole country has 214 medical human resource training institutions, including 66 universities (there are 18 public schools training doctors and nurses); The number of doctors graduating in 2024 nationwide is nearly 11,300.
The female delegate said that although the scale of Vietnam's medical human resources has increased by 2.33% over the past 10 years, this number is not significant. According to the Ministry of Health, the total human resources in the health sector are currently about 431,700 people, much lower than the 632,500 people in the Health Human Resources Development Plan, period 2011-2020...
The delegate said that in reality, when taking exams and doctors at public schools training in health, the benchmark score is always at the highest level in the past 10 years, the study time is long, the tuition fee is high because public schools operate financially autonomously, the main source of revenue is from tuition fees.
Tuition fees at schools are increasing beyond the means of low-middle-income families, which has become a barrier for many students who want to study medicine
From the above situation, delegate Tran Khanh Thu proposed to add subjects trained in doctors and nurses of public training institutions to the group of subjects guaranteed by the state budget and supported with tuition fees during the training period.
Along with that is a commitment to work under the assignment of the State after graduation, thereby ensuring a source of students, especially students in difficult circumstances, having the opportunity to achieve their wish to become doctors. The female delegate believes that if this can be done, it will solve the problem of medical human resources in remote areas, areas with a shortage of doctors.
Also giving comments on the issue of training the medical team, delegate Pham Van Hoa (Dong Thap Delegation) emphasized that if the medical team has heart and vision, treating patients will be very good, but on the contrary, it will be very difficult. This is an extremely important issue, no one can take care of their health other than doctors, so training the team of doctors is very important.
Delegate Hoa said that currently, in some schools, there is a situation where specialized medical training and distance training are carried out, but the floor score is very low, even universities that train general schools and many majors also have medical departments.
"We suggest that the education and health sectors need to reconsider" - the delegate said frankly.
Mr. Hoa said that there are many schools that train in medicine, of which medical universities are leading specialized universities with good training quality. Therefore, the delegate suggested that these schools increase training for specialist doctors. At the same time, it will reduce the situation of multi-disciplinary universities training in medicine, which will make it difficult to ensure output quality.
He also suggested that we should pay attention to this issue, how can we focus on training well, and not follow the goal of having 2 to 5 doctors per health station by 2027. If we pursue that goal but the quality of doctors trained in schools does not match it, it will be a worrying problem.
