The contest is one of the solutions to maintain effective implementation of health programs at the grassroots level, honor the silent beauty of grassroots health workers , and spread the example of good people and good deeds.
On May 3, the Ministry of Health held the launching ceremony of the “Excellent Grassroots Health 2024” Competition. The competition had the participation of 17 teams from 3 regions: North, Central and South.
Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that Vietnam is one of the few countries with a complete healthcare network, widely organized down to the villages and hamlets, and is a model that many countries are interested in and learn from.
Up to now, 100% of districts, towns, provincial cities, and centrally-run cities have medical centers; 99.6% of communes, wards, and towns have medical stations; 97.3% of commune medical stations meet national criteria on commune health in the 2011-2020 period. Grassroots medical staff has been gradually consolidated, 92.4% of commune medical stations have doctors working; 78.9% of commune medical stations have doctors working on a permanent basis; the number of highly qualified medical staff is increasing.
In particular, facilities and equipment have been invested in upgrading and improving, with nearly 80% of commune health stations being solidly invested. The capacity and quality of providing medical services at grassroots health facilities have been increasingly improved, basically fulfilling assigned functions and tasks, and people's satisfaction with medical services has been improved.
According to the Minister of Health, in recent times, the grassroots health system and preventive medicine have achieved many successes in caring for, protecting and improving people's health. However, in the current context, there are still many issues that the health sector needs to prioritize, such as population aging, prevention of infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, and high rates of malnutrition and stunting in remote, isolated and mountainous areas. Therefore, primary health care in the community is always extremely important and of great significance.
Primary health care is not only the first place to provide health care services, but also the pillar of the health system, helping to maintain the health of the whole community. Primary health care workers are the soldiers on the front lines in the fight against disease and protecting and improving public health, creating a healthy community.
Therefore, the contest is one of the solutions to maintain effective implementation of health programs at the grassroots level, as well as honor the silent beauty of grassroots health workers, and spread the example of good people and good deeds.
Mr. Vu Manh Cuong - Director of the Central Health Communication Center (Ministry of Health) said that the Ministry of Health organized the 2024 Excellent Grassroots Health Competition with the theme "Grassroots Health: Close to the people - Dedicated service". The competition aims to contribute to raising awareness and responsibility of Party committees, Party organizations, authorities, political systems and the health sector about the role, position and importance of grassroots health in the task of primary health care; improve the effectiveness of state management and coordination responsibility of agencies and organizations in developing and implementing policies, laws on grassroots health.
The competition will take place in 3 regions: North - Central - South with 17 provinces participating and the final award ceremony in Hanoi.
Contestants are Vietnamese nationals, medical staff at commune, ward and town health stations; medical collaborators, population collaborators in villages, hamlets, villages, and hamlets of 17 provinces and cities. Each contestant team has 6-10 members, including at least 1 Head of Health Station.
The competition will be conducted in 3 rounds: The Preliminary Round (local - not required) will select the local team. The Regional Round will have 5-6 teams competing in 3 categories: Greeting, Knowledge and Talent. This round will select the First and Second prize winning teams to enter the Final Round. The 6 teams entering the Final Round will compete in 3 categories: Greeting, Good Station Leader and Talent.
Regarding the award structure: Regional round: 01 First prize, 01 Second prize, 01 Third prize, 03 Encouragement prizes and secondary prizes (if any). Final round: 01 First prize, 01 Second prize, 01 Third prize, 03 Encouragement prizes and secondary prizes (if any).
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