Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra gave a speech explaining and clarifying a number of issues raised by the National Assembly deputies.
Answering questions from National Assembly deputies in discussions about mobilizing, managing and using resources for COVID-19 prevention and control; implementing policies and laws on grassroots health and preventive medicine, the Minister of Home Affairs said that he would clearly define the payroll norms of grassroots medical staff and preventive medicine on the basis of job positions according to the size, fraction, socio-economic conditions of regions and regions in accordance with practical requirements.
In particular, the Ministry of Home Affairs will not raise the issue of reducing the payroll of public employees 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 health human resources in the public sector by 2030 in a fundamental way, specifically because in the recent situation this is a very important issue.
“We all know that the number of public employees in the health sector accounted for 25% of the total 39.000 officials and public employees who quit their jobs in the past time. That shows that it is necessary to make a very comprehensive assessment of the organizational structure, preventive medicine and grassroots health workers to propose to the Government and the Prime Minister to build new or amend and supplement legal documents, ensuring the stability of the organizational structure model," said the Minister of Home Affairs.
According to the Minister of Home Affairs, it is necessary to clearly define specific functions and tasks, manage grassroots medical institutions and preventive medicine to ensure political and social requirements, practical requirements and legal requirements.
Taking the example of the management of a district-level health center, the leader of the Ministry of Home Affairs said that there are currently two streams of opinions: Should it be managed by the district-level People's Committee or the Department of Health. 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 in the most efficient and quality manner while still ensuring the decentralization of State management in accordance with the spirit of Resolution 19, 12th Central Executive Committee,” said the Minister of Home Affairs.
Regarding salary and remuneration policies, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that she would coordinate with the Ministry of Health and relevant ministries to perfect mechanisms and policies on salaries, preferential allowances, and specific allowances for medical staff in general and preventive medicine and grassroots health in particular, set in the salary policy reform roadmap in the spirit of Resolution 27 of the Central Committee.
Currently, the Ministry of Home Affairs is advising the Government and the Prime Minister to develop a roadmap for salary policy reform and must carefully calculate the salary policy, preferential allowances, and specific allowances for medical staff in general and grassroots health care and preventive medicine in particular. However, the salary policy will ensure the Party's view that the medical industry is a special industry, so the use and remuneration must also ensure special policies.
The Ministry of Home Affairs will amend and supplement the recruitment policy, use the policy of training and fostering health workers according to Decree 115, Decree 101 and the policy of attracting doctors to work in extremely difficult areas, ethnic minority areas, remote and island areas.
The Ministry of Home Affairs also proposed to the Ministry of Finance to study to amend Decree 60 on autonomy mechanism, Decree 59, Decree 69 on socialization of non-business units and promote the mechanism of ordering and assigning tasks to non-business units, especially grassroots and preventive medicine.
According to VNA
