"Worrying about not being full yet", how can we think about a variety of foods that are right and have enough nutrients?

Delegate Nguyen Lan Hieu said that the direct cause of falling back into poverty is having a sick family member. Photo: National Assembly Office

There is still a lack of programs for the medical field.

Continuing the working program of the 6th Session, on the morning of October 30, the National Assembly discussed in the hall the implementation of the National Assembly's Resolutions on national target programs.

Delegate Nguyen Lan Hieu - National Assembly Delegation of Binh Dinh province - said that there is still a lack of programs for the health sector.

According to him, the cause of falling back into poverty is partly due to the design of poverty reduction programs, including 7 projects but no specific project emphasizing improving the quality of treatment and health care for people in difficult areas.

Through monitoring, it is shown that the direct cause of re-poverty is that a family member is sick. The delegate said that common diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. need to be managed and treated regularly, but resources for primary health care are limited, so treatment is still inadequate.

"There are no good medicines for regular treatment, no means to care for, control complications as well as first aid" - Mr. Hieu said.

That is why, according to him, the rate of complications is very high in poor areas; a family member having a stroke and having to go to the city for treatment means all the money in the house is gone; not to mention having to borrow money everywhere. Being discharged from the hospital and returning home with a disability and no longer being able to work is a burden for the family to take care of….

Delegates said that poverty reduction has not improved the quality of life, and they hope that the National Assembly will pay special attention to this issue. Resources from the Ministry of Health and localities need to focus on projects to diagnose and treat common non-communicable diseases with high mortality rates, such as blood pressure, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and mental illness; promote anti-pregnancy among adolescents; support care for premature babies with congenital disabilities, pay special attention to vaccination and nutrition, and develop geriatric specialties locally.

Prevention and control of child malnutrition have not met the set targets.

Speaking at the meeting, delegate Chau Quynh Dao - National Assembly Delegation of Kien Giang province said: Projects 5, 7, 8 have contributed to implementing children's rights and ensuring measures to protect, care for, and educate children, helping children access services in the best way.

However, delegates expressed concerns that Project 7, which is a project on public health care, improving the physical condition and stature of ethnic minorities, and preventing malnutrition in children, has two targets that have not yet been achieved.

Accordingly, the target for malnourished children and underweight children under 5 years old is 15.8% while the target plan is below 15%; stunted children is 25%, while the target plan is below 15%.

According to the delegate, in 2020, the World Bank ranked Vietnam as one of 34 countries facing the burden of child malnutrition. Since then, Vietnam has made many efforts to improve this problem.

However, the improvement is not yet positive; the National Institute of Nutrition once stated that in the Northern mountainous region and many other ethnic minority areas, more than 70% of children do not eat properly or enough.

The delegate said: "If we are not yet satisfied, how can we think about diversifying the right and nutritious food?"; there are still places with backward child care practices;... On the other hand, current mechanisms and policies are still inadequate.

Besides, from 2021 to 2023, Project 7 only disbursed 15.44%; meanwhile, the local budget only disbursed 10.91%.

This means that many people have not benefited from the policy, and the improvement of child malnutrition has not been guaranteed to be substantial.

Therefore, delegates suggested that the National Assembly and the Government continue to effectively implement the solutions proposed in the monitoring report; especially focusing on reasonable allocation for communication work to raise awareness of the role and importance of child nutrition.

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