Preparing to declare the end of the Covid-19 epidemic

(HNMO) - On the afternoon of May 29, explaining some issues that National Assembly deputies were interested in at the discussion session in the hall on the mobilization, management and use of resources for Covid-19 prevention and control; the implementation of policies and laws on grassroots health care and preventive medicine, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that it is expected that this weekend, the National Steering Committee on Covid-19 Prevention and Control will discuss issues related to preparations for declaring the end of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan.

Explaining the opinions of National Assembly deputies on the change from group A diseases to group B diseases for the Covid-19 epidemic, Minister Dao Hong Lan said that, implementing the direction of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Health is coordinating with ministries and branches to review legal regulations, refer to the experience of countries around the world and review practical measures to implement the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic in Vietnam. The Ministry of Health has chaired with ministries and branches to build a dossier to change the disease classification from group A infectious diseases to group B infectious diseases.

“To prepare for the announcement of the end of the Covid-19 epidemic, it is expected that this weekend, the Prime Minister will chair the National Steering Committee on Covid-19 Prevention and Control to discuss related contents,” said Minister Dao Hong Lan.

Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra.

Assessing that the pandemic has exposed difficulties and shortcomings in the organizational structure and operations of the preventive and primary health care networks, to comprehensively resolve this issue, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that the Ministry of Home Affairs will coordinate with the Ministry of Health to review and advise the Government on a project to develop human resources for health in the public sector by 2030 in a fundamental, specific, and strategic manner, ensuring human resources for health in the public sector in the new situation.

In particular, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that it is necessary to comprehensively assess the organizational structure, human resources of preventive medicine and grassroots health care to propose to the Government to build new or supplement legal documents, ensure stability in the organizational structure model, clearly define the specific functions and tasks of these organizations, carefully consider the organizational model to ensure political, social, legal and practical requirements, to best perform the task of ensuring people's health.

"Currently, the Ministry of Home Affairs is advising the Government and the Prime Minister on the salary reform roadmap. This also includes careful calculations on salaries, preferential allowances, salary allowances, and special allowances for medical staff in general as well as primary health care and preventive health staff in particular to ensure compliance with the Party's viewpoint that the medical sector is a special sector, so the use and treatment are also special," said Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Tra.

Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc.

Clarifying the issue of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front requesting lower-level Fronts to pay the supported funds to the higher-level Fronts to pay into the budget or pay into the Vaccine Fund, Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc said that here, it is only requested to pay the money that businesses and people support to buy vaccines. People support to buy vaccines, the central budget has already spent money to buy in advance and spend from the Vaccine Fund.

“Therefore, vaccine funding must be returned to the budget. Other anti-epidemic resources must be left in localities and used to fight the epidemic and modernize the health sector,” said Minister Ho Duc Phoc.

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