According to the report of the Hai Duong Department of Health at the meeting of the Provincial People's Committee on November 6, from 2020 to 2023, the entire health sector of Hai Duong province had 215 civil servants and public employees quit their jobs, including 61 doctors. While the number of doctors recruited each year is relatively low, in 2023, only 29 doctors were recruited.
The number of doctors working at the commune level has been decreasing year by year due to retirement, transfer to higher levels, resignations, etc. Compared to the minimum standard according to regulations, Hai Duong is currently short of 388 doctors. According to the set target, by 2030, the province strives to have 19 doctors/10,000 people, the number of doctors needed is 3,713 people, expected to be short of 1,505 doctors.
The Department of Health assessed that the province's medical human resources are lacking due to lower salaries than non-public units, heavy work pressure, inadequate facilities for medical staff to develop their capacity, high training costs, and self-payment.
Besides, the province's policy on supporting training and attracting human resources in general, and human resources in the medical sector in particular, is not suitable and attractive enough for specific fields of the medical sector.
The Department of Health proposed the policy of developing a Resolution regulating policies on support, training, attraction and treatment of medical human resources at public agencies and units, including 3 policies. These are training policy, policy on attracting doctors and pharmacists, and treatment policy for doctors working at commune-level health stations.
At the same time, it is proposed that the highest level of support for research and study costs after graduation and receiving a doctoral degree is 100 million VND/person/course; for specialist II doctors and resident doctors, it is 50 million VND/person/course; for masters and specialist I doctors, it is 30 million VND/person/course.
Regarding human resource attraction policy, the highest support level is 500 million VND/person for people with PhD or specialist II degrees working in specialized departments of psychiatry, pathology, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, infectious diseases, and emergency resuscitation.
The treatment policy for doctors working at health stations is expected to support monthly or daily work at 20% of current salary if working in communes, and 15% of current salary when working in wards or towns.
Hai Duong Provincial People's Committee basically agreed with the proposal of the Department of Health on building a support policy to attract human resources in the medical sector. At the same time, it emphasized that the policy of supporting medical human resources with money is not enough but must be combined with facilities, conditions, and working environment.
