On the afternoon of December 29, the Ministry of Health organized a national conference to summarize health work in 2025, term 2021-2025; orient work for the 2026-2030 term and deploy key tasks for 2026.
At the conference, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said: "In the period 2021-2025, in the context of the world and regional situation having many fluctuations, consequences from the COVID-19 epidemic, lack of medicine, medical services, natural disasters, storms and floods; besides the recent rearrangement of the apparatus, the health sector has faced many difficulties and challenges, but still achieved many important and comprehensive results in all fields.
In the period 2021-2025, many targets of the health sector have been achieved and exceeded the plan, affirming development in terms of scale, quality and efficiency. Institutional improvement work is identified as a breakthrough, with the promulgation of 5 important laws, dozens of Decrees, nearly 200 Circulars, and many long-term development strategies and plans to 2045 and 2050.
In addition, the field of medical examination and treatment continues to develop in a specialized and modern direction. Preventive medicine, disease prevention and initial health care have been firmly consolidated. Social security and health protection have been expanded, contributing to ensuring fairness in health care. Health digital transformation has clear initial results. Organizational structure arrangement has been implemented in a streamlined, effective and efficient direction.
In particular, the health sector has completed 3/3 of the main socio-economic targets assigned by the National Assembly in 2025, including the proportion of the population participating in health insurance, the number of doctors and the number of hospital beds per 10,000 people.
The sector also achieved and exceeded 8/9 professional targets assigned by the Government, specifically: The coverage rate of health insurance is estimated to reach 95.15% of the population, exceeding the set target; the number of doctors reaches 15 doctors per 10,000 people; the number of hospital beds reaches 34.5 beds per 10,000 people; the average life expectancy of people reaches about 74.8 years old; the rate of people satisfied with health services reaches over 90%...
These results show the strong recovery and outstanding efforts of the sector in ensuring the goals of people's health care...
Stepping into the 2026-2030 period, the health sector determines to continue comprehensive innovation and development according to the major orientations of the Party and the State, focusing on Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW of the Politburo and Directive No. 52-CT/TW of the Secretariat.
The general goal is to build a modern, fair, and effective health system, towards universal health care; all people can live long, healthy, healthy lives, proactively prevent diseases and improve the quality of life.
The sector will focus on implementing many key groups of solutions such as: Implementing management and health care according to life cycles; effectively implementing programs to improve intellectual capacity, physical strength, stature, and life expectancy of Vietnamese people, national strategies on nutrition, school health care programs; building safe and healthy community, school and workplace models; promoting the movement of the whole people to proactively take care of health, building health culture among the people...
The health sector strives to raise the average life expectancy of people to about 75.5 years by 2030; effectively control non-communicable diseases; maintain high vaccination rates; basically end AIDS, tuberculosis and eliminate malaria; ensure health security in all situations.
Major orientations include perfecting the medical legal system; arranging a streamlined and effective health system; improving the capacity of grassroots and preventive health; developing high-quality health human resources; ensuring drug, vaccine and medical equipment autonomy; promoting digital transformation and innovation in health finance towards universal health care coverage.
In 2026 alone, the health sector will focus on synchronously implementing tasks on building and perfecting institutions, consolidating organizational structures, administrative reform, improving the quality of health services, strengthening preventive medicine, ensuring the supply of drugs and vaccines, innovating health financial mechanisms and expanding international cooperation... creating a strong shift in improving people's health, contributing to the sustainable development of the country in the new period.
