Taking primary health care as the foundation and disease prevention as the main focus to take care of people's health

On October 30, the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission coordinated with Tu Du Hospital to organize a seminar on "Implementing Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW: Treatment, care and improvement of people's health".

Comrade Huynh Thanh Dat, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission, spoke at the seminar.

The discussion was chaired by comrade Huynh Thanh Dat, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission; Nguyen Huy Ngoc, Head of Local Department 3, Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission; Doctor-CK2 Tran Ngoc Hai, Director of Tu Du Hospital.

Strengthening primary health care , enhancing public-private partnership

According to Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW (Resolution 72) has provided strategic direction for the entire health sector. This is an important guideline for comprehensively reforming the grassroots health network, ensuring that all people have access to basic, equitable, quality, effective and convenient health services right at their place of residence.

Currently, the Department of Health has been concretizing the spirit of Resolution No. 72 through 5 key groups of solutions, aiming to build a modern, fair, effective and people-friendly grassroots health system such as: perfecting the organizational model, rearranging the network of health stations and health centers in a streamlined and efficient direction; developing grassroots health human resources; increasing investment in facilities, equipment and digital transformation; innovating financial mechanisms, expanding grassroots health services and improving the quality of health care for all people.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Quang Binh, Director of Tam Anh Hospital, said that private healthcare can play a leading role in technological innovation and international integration if given the right conditions and direction. Public-private partnership is not only about sharing resources, but also about value synergy, creating a sustainable healthcare ecosystem, with patients at the center of all cooperation activities, and patient satisfaction is the measure of success.

To further promote the role of private healthcare and promote effective public-private partnership, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Quang Binh said that it is necessary to improve the legal mechanism for public-private partnership, especially in the fields of research, training and technology transfer; increase financial support and investment incentives for private healthcare facilities with specialized orientation and high-tech application. In addition, establish a mechanism for sharing interconnected medical data between public and private hospitals, ensuring effective treatment and public health management; encourage comprehensive cooperation models, focusing on patients, towards high-quality, equitable and effective healthcare services...

According to Master-Doctor Nguyen Ngoc Bao Long, Director of Hoan My Saigon Hospital, in order for private healthcare to participate strongly, deeply and sustainably in the public healthcare service system, the state needs to consider this as a pillar parallel to public healthcare, clearly positioned by legal mechanisms, transparent ordering mechanisms, unified quality standards and centralized coordination. Then, people will benefit to the maximum: diverse services, convenient access, reasonable costs and guaranteed quality...

Overview of the discussion

The resolution has a profound humanistic vision.

Speaking at the seminar, comrade Huynh Thanh Dat said that Resolution 72 was issued in the context of our country entering a new stage of development, with higher requirements for quality of life, social justice, and human health - the most valuable resource of the nation. This is a strategic Resolution with a profound humanistic vision, affirming our Party's viewpoint: caring for, protecting and improving people's health is the responsibility of the entire political system, of each organization, each family and each citizen; it is the core factor ensuring the country's rapid, sustainable and happy development.

To truly bring Resolution No. 72 into life, comrade Huynh Thanh Dat requested that 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, taking disease prevention as the main focus to take comprehensive health care of the people; need to develop a synchronous and modern grassroots health network, associated with digital transformation and national health records, and at the same time issue special treatment mechanisms to attract doctors and medical staff to work long-term at the grassroots level.

Building a national digital healthcare system, using data and technology as a breakthrough. Investing in information technology infrastructure, standardizing and connecting data between levels, accelerating the implementation of electronic medical records, electronic health records, using artificial intelligence in management, forecasting and diagnosis. This is a solution to help Vietnam's healthcare system integrate, improve management capacity and quality of medical examination and treatment. Besides, Perfecting the health financing mechanism and sustainably developing resources. Financial autonomy needs to be implemented in a roadmap, linked with social responsibility, fairness and humanity; at the same time, expanding public-private partnership models, attracting investment from businesses and society in the health sector, while still ensuring that all people have access to essential, quality, and reasonably priced health services.

Medical staff care for and encourage the elderly to be optimistic and live a happy and healthy life.

Develop a high-quality medical staff, comprehensive in terms of capacity, ethics and style of serving the people. It is necessary to strongly reform salary and allowance policies, create a humane working environment, honor the contributions of doctors; at the same time, promote specialized training, international cooperation, focus on fostering skills, ethics and medical ethics. The medical staff is the soul of the industry, the heart of Resolution No. 72 when it comes into life.

Resolution 72-NQ/TW of the Politburo on a number of breakthrough solutions to strengthen the protection, care and improvement of people's health, putting people at the center, considering disease prevention as the key, strengthening primary health care and prevention. Goals by 2030: improve physical strength, stature, and longevity; 100% of people receive regular medical examinations and screenings; aiming to exempt basic hospital fees within the scope of health insurance. Key tasks include improving institutions, innovating health finance, developing human resources, promoting technology and digital transformation, promoting the role of private health care and traditional medicine.

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