On March 3, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health announced that the City People's Committee had issued a decision approving the overall project to reorganize the administrative apparatus, specialized agencies, and public service units under the City People's Committee.
According to this decision, the Department of Health receives the function and task of state management of social protection, child care protection, and social evils prevention from the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs (Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs).
The Department of Health established the Department of Child Protection and Care and Social Protection, on the basis of merging the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Child Protection and Care and Gender Equality under the former Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Thus, currently, the Department of Health has 9 functional departments, including: Department Office, Department of Organization and Personnel, Department of Financial Planning, Department of Medical Affairs, Department of Pharmacy Affairs, Department of Medical Service Management, Department of Information Technology, Department of Child Protection, child Care and Social Protection, Department Inspectorate.
Receive and allocate personnel from the general general general staff rooms of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to a number of departments under the Department of Health including: Department Office, Department of Organization and Personnel, Department of Planning - Finance, Department of Information Technology and Department Inspectorate.
Receive the status quo of the Department of Social Disaster Prevention and Control and 12 public service units in the field of social protection. Thus, currently, the Department of Health has 2 branches: Population Department and Social evil Prevention and Control Department.
The total number of personnel received from the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to the Department of Health is 1,531 civil servants, public employees and workers.
The Department of Health received a deputy director of the department, Mr. Nguyen Tang Minh, and assigned him the responsibility of social protection, child care protection, and prevention of social evils.
The restructuring of the apparatus will help ensure close connection between social protection and health care for people, vulnerable groups such as children, people with disabilities, the elderly... will enjoy more comprehensive support policies.
The Department of Health will quickly deploy solutions to soon stabilize the organization of the apparatus and put it into operation, ensuring that it does not affect the progress of tasks, while streamlining the apparatus with restructuring the team of cadres and civil servants with sufficient qualities and abilities to match the tasks.
According to the plan, in the coming time, the Department of Health will assign 12 hospitals to sign a comprehensive support for health care for disadvantaged people being cared for at 12 social protection centers.
