Realizing Resolution 72 from the practice of Ho Chi Minh City

Scene of the seminar to implement Resolution 72 at Tu Du Hospital.

The event gathered a large number of leading medical experts, health managers, policy makers and local leaders, demonstrating strong political determination in concretizing the Party's major policy on taking care of people's health.

Speaking at the opening of the seminar, comrade Huynh Thanh Dat, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission, emphasized: “Implementing Resolution 72 is not only a professional task of the health sector but also an urgent political and social task, demonstrating the deep concern of the Party and State for people's health. This is a strategic orientation that requires synchronous and drastic participation from all levels and sectors, in order to bring people closer to a modern, equitable and effective health system.”

Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission Huynh Thanh Dat spoke.

Health experts and managers focused on discussing six key topics including: Developing grassroots health care from commune and ward health stations to the preventive health system; applying information technology and digital transformation in management and medical examination and treatment; financial autonomy and public health service policies;

Developing traditional medicine combined with modern medicine; policies to attract, train and reward high-quality medical human resources; strengthening public-private partnership, promoting private health care to participate deeply in the health care system.

Delegates attending the seminar.

In line with the orientation of Resolution 72, Tu Du Hospital is considered a typical model of administrative innovation, financial autonomy and development of specialized medical techniques.

Doctor Tran Ngoc Hai - Director of Tu Du Hospital, said: The success of the autonomous model over the past 10 years has helped the hospital boldly invest and deploy many advanced medical techniques, approaching international standards, contributing to improving the quality of treatment and health care for mothers and children.

Doctor Tran Ngoc Hai - Director of Tu Du Hospital spoke.

A clear demonstration of the results of specialized medical development at Tu Du Hospital is that each year, the hospital performs more than 46,000 births, ensuring absolute safety in 200,000 surgeries with the lowest mortality rate in the country.

More than 77% of surgeries are performed using endoscopic techniques, and the hospital has coordinated with Children's Hospital 1 to implement fetal medical interventions with many outstanding achievements.

Also on this occasion, leaders of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission attended the inauguration ceremony of three new medical facilities at Tu Du Hospital, including the 3.0T MRI Center, the Intensive Care Unit and the Emergency Unit with a total area of nearly 2,000 square ^meters .

Delegates cut the ribbon to inaugurate new medical facilities at Tu Du Hospital.

“All projects are carried out with the hospital's career development fund, demonstrating a proactive and creative spirit to practically serve the task of treating, caring for and protecting patients in the spirit of Resolution 72,” Dr. Hai shared.

Sharing at the discussion, Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, said that the health sector is shifting strongly from treatment to prevention, taking primary health care as the mainstay. “The goal by 2026 is for everyone to receive free periodic health check-ups and screening. By 2030, everyone will basically receive free medical examination and treatment within the scope of health insurance benefits,” Dr. Chau emphasized.

The solutions being implemented by the health sector include building a proactive disease prevention model and intensive treatment with the key role of grassroots health care. Implementing key projects such as developing community health, improving the capacity of the Center for Disease Control, policies for developing a network of community health collaborators, and applying information technology in health. At the same time, mobilizing social resources through public-private partnerships to invest in developing grassroots health care.

Leaders of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission visited the new medical facility.

Ho Chi Minh City has deployed 13,255 community health collaborators, mobilized 530 medical staff to provide professional support at the grassroots level, implemented management and treatment of non-communicable diseases, contributing to raising the average life expectancy of people to 76.6 years.

However, according to the leaders of the Department of Health, the implementation has also shown challenges such as shortage and imbalance of primary health care human resources, degraded facilities and equipment, or inflexible financial mechanisms. The health sector has advised and proposed competent authorities to soon issue specific policies to remove the clearly identified backlog of problems.

The presentations and opinions at the seminar focused on clarifying major issues in the health sector: from strengthening primary health care, promoting digital transformation, perfecting financial mechanisms, developing human resources, combining traditional medicine with modern medicine, to expanding public-private cooperation in health.

Doctors at Tu Du Hospital welcome the new medical facility.

These contents are not separate but linked and mutually supportive in a whole, together aiming at the goal of building a modern, humane, fair, high-quality and effective Vietnamese healthcare system.

Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission Huynh Thanh Dat said that in order to truly bring Resolution 72 into life, sectors, localities, hospitals and medical facilities need to strongly innovate the organizational model and operating mechanism of the health system in the direction of taking grassroots health care as the foundation and disease prevention as the main focus. Along with that, building a national digital health system, taking data and technology as breakthroughs.

Delegates take souvenir photos at Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space at Tu Du Hospital.

“Another important thing is to perfect the health financing mechanism and sustainably develop resources. Develop a high-quality health workforce, comprehensive in capacity, ethics and style of serving the people. The health workforce is the soul of the industry, the heart of Resolution 72 when it comes into life,” the Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission emphasized.

The seminar is the first step for the substantive action of the Ho Chi Minh City health sector to implement Resolution 72 of the Politburo. The synchronous participation from the central to local levels, from frontline hospitals to the grassroots health network is demonstrating the spirit of innovation and determination to soon concretize the goals of Resolution 72, putting people at the center of development, taking people's health as a measure of social progress.

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