Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra spoke to explain and clarify a number of issues raised by National Assembly deputies.
Answering questions from National Assembly deputies during the discussion on mobilizing, managing and using resources for COVID-19 prevention and control; implementing policies and laws on grassroots health care and preventive medicine, the Minister of Home Affairs said that the staffing standards for grassroots health care and preventive medicine will be clearly determined based on job positions according to scale, fractions, and socio-economic conditions of regions and areas in accordance with practical requirements.
In particular, the Ministry of Home Affairs will not raise the issue of reducing the number of civil servants receiving salaries from the State budget for grassroots medical staff and preventive medicine.
The Ministry of Home Affairs will coordinate with the Ministry of Health to review and advise the Government on a project on developing human resources for health in the public sector by 2030 in a fundamental and specific manner because in the current situation, this is a very important issue.
“We all know that the number of officials and civil servants in the health sector accounts for 25% of the total 39,000 officials and civil servants who have quit their jobs recently. That shows that we must comprehensively assess the organizational structure, human resources in preventive medicine and grassroots health care to propose to the Government and the Prime Minister to develop new or amend and supplement legal documents, ensuring stability in the organizational structure model," said the Minister of Home Affairs.
According to the Minister of Home Affairs, it is necessary to clearly define the specific functions and tasks, and manage grassroots health organizations and preventive medicine to ensure political, social, practical and legal requirements.
Taking the example of district-level health center management, the leader of the Ministry of Home Affairs said that there are currently two opinions: Should the district-level People's Committee manage it or should the Department of Health manage it? This is also an issue that the Ministry of Home Affairs needs to coordinate with the health sector to review.
“Our goal is to operate most effectively and with the highest quality while still ensuring decentralization of State management in accordance with the spirit of Resolution 19 of the 12th Central Executive Committee,” said the Minister of Home Affairs.
Regarding salary and benefits policies, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra said she will coordinate with the Ministry of Health and relevant ministries to perfect the mechanism and policies on salaries, preferential allowances, and special allowances for medical staff in general and preventive medicine and grassroots health care in particular, in the roadmap for salary policy reform in the spirit of Resolution 27 of the Central Executive Committee.
Currently, the Ministry of Home Affairs is advising the Government and the Prime Minister on the development of a roadmap for salary policy reform and must carefully calculate salary policies, preferential allowances, and special allowances for health workers in general and primary health care and preventive health care in particular. However, the salary policy will ensure the Party's viewpoint that the health sector is a special sector, so the use and treatment must also ensure special policies.
The Ministry of Home Affairs will amend and supplement the recruitment policy, use the training policy, and foster health workers according to Decree 115, Decree 101, and the policy to attract doctors to work in extremely difficult areas, ethnic minority areas, remote areas, and island areas.
The Ministry of Home Affairs also proposed to the Ministry of Finance to study and amend Decree 60 on the autonomous mechanism, Decree 59, Decree 69 on the socialization of public service units and promote the ordering mechanism and assignment of tasks to public health service units, especially grassroots health care and preventive medicine./.
According to VNA
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