Necessary waste

Many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have run out of anti-snake venom serum - Photo: DUYEN PHAN

But there are wastes hundreds or thousands of times greater, such as abandoning public houses and lands that should not exist, but have existed for a long time without any solution.

Many delegates, when discussing the Law on Pharmacy (amended), proposed adding to Article 3 of the draft law a mandatory mechanism for reserving "rare drugs" or "orphan drugs" for use in emergency patient care.

What delegates are most concerned about and want to be "resolved" is that the regulation must consider that if a medicine expires during storage, destroying the medicine (buying new medicine) is completely normal, not considered a waste.

The reason for this proposal is that for a long time, there have been cases where post-inspection agencies have been heavy-handed and rigid in thinking that storing but not using, and having to destroy expired drugs is wasteful, resulting in fear of making mistakes among management staff and medical facilities.

So that there is no stockpile of medicine (some only cost a few thousand dong/dose) to save patients in life-or-death moments.

While for medicine, as well as fire extinguishers, everyone hopes that "prevention" is better than "cure".

Of course, to avoid waste, the amount of medicine to be purchased in reserve must be regulated by a calculation mechanism based on the amount of medicine used in a number of previous years.

At the same time, there must also be a mechanism to rotate drugs between regions and medical facilities to make optimal use of reserve drugs.

If talking about waste, there is no more typical and heartbreaking example than the series of public houses and lands in localities that are abandoned, deserted, and wasted.

Those open-pit "diamond mines" and "gold mines" only need a reasonable leasing mechanism to be put into exploitation to bring large resources to the budget. The revenue will certainly help many localities to be generous in stockpiling medicine.

The latest report in Ho Chi Minh City shows that thousands of houses and lands, with an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters, are vacant, cannot be rented, and are a waste because there is no mechanism for renting houses and public lands for production and business purposes.

Many houses and lands are located in "golden" locations in districts 1, 3, 5, 6, Binh Thanh, Phu Nhuan... In some places, land in the city is expensive to rent, in some places it is rented for millions of VND/m2, the amount of money being wasted is tens, hundreds of billions of VND/year.

Not to mention the 12,500-apartment resettlement project in Thu Thiem (Thu Duc City), nearly 2,000 apartments and more than 500 plots of land in Vinh Loc B resettlement area (Binh Chanh) are also left empty, without an effective mechanism for sale or lease.

A mountain of money "exposed" to the sun and rain. Impatient with this situation, some units, typically the Thu Thiem Urban Development Area Management Board, have just proposed a project to cooperate in exploiting a part of the land lot coded DL-6, belonging to the Thu Thiem new urban area (located in An Khanh ward, Thu Duc city) as a golf course during the unused period.

However, this proposal has not been considered yet. Obviously, if there is a common law regulation, it will be easier for localities to prepare and approve leasing plans.

Instead of being impatient and worrying about wasting essential things to save people's lives, we should think about not wasting public resources.

That is also the implementation of the principle of ensuring appropriate and effective use and practicing thrift, and combating waste of public resources.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/su-lang-phi-can-thiet-20240624104611568.htm