Focus on strengthening primary healthcare and preventive medicine.

(CTO) - On the morning of June 4th, Mr. Dong Van Thanh, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Can Tho City Party Committee, and Chairman of the Can Tho City People's Council, chaired a meeting to implement Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW dated September 9, 2025, of the Politburo on some breakthrough solutions to strengthen the protection, care, and improvement of people's health in Can Tho City. Attending the meeting were leaders of the City Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and various departments and agencies.

Ms. Ma Thi Tuoi, Permanent Vice Chairperson of the City People's Council, delivered a speech at the meeting.

According to the report from the Department of Health, the Department proactively advised the City People's Committee to submit to the City Party Committee for promulgation Action Program No. 11-CTr/TU dated December 31, 2025, to implement Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW; and to submit to the City Party Committee for promulgation Program No. 09-CTr/ĐU dated March 3, 2026, to implement Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW. It also advised the City People's Committee to issue Plan No. 172/KH-UBND dated November 28, 2025, to implement Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW and Resolution No. 282/NQ-CP dated September 15, 2025, of the Government. Plan No. 51/KH-UBND dated February 2, 2026, implementing the National Strategy for the Protection, Care, and Improvement of People's Health for the period up to 2030, with a vision to 2045, creates an important political and legal basis for unified implementation throughout the city.

To date, 100% of medical examination and treatment facilities in the city have implemented professional management software and electronic documents; the rate of document exchange in the electronic environment has reached nearly 97%. Focus is being placed on perfecting the functions, tasks, and organizational structure of commune-level health stations according to the model of public service units; implementing the Family Doctor Clinic model; and the City General Hospital is implementing kidney transplantation.

The Department of Health is urgently developing a plan for open-heart surgery in children at the City Children's Hospital; advising on the development and issuance of a plan for implementing pre-hospital emergency care; directing units to advise on the development of a plan for specialized medical development, and is currently developing a plan to improve preventive medical capacity; ensuring a sufficient supply of medicines and preventing shortages due to subjective factors.

You may also like

Free health check-ups and electronic health records will be provided to residents of Con Dao.Thousands of residents in the Con Dao Special Zone will receive free health check-ups from doctors and medical staff at Thong Nhat Hospital and the Central Dental and Maxillofacial Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, as well as the creation of electronic health records.

Associate Professor, Doctor Hoang Quoc Cuong, Director of the Department of Health, delivered a speech.

The Department of Health has developed a plan and implemented two rounds of free health check-ups and screenings for social welfare beneficiaries, the elderly, and women in 14 communes and wards in the city. By the end of February 2026, the city had 3,509 non-public medical facilities, including 13 hospitals, 62 polyclinics, 1,854 specialized clinics, 384 traditional medicine clinics, and other private medical examination and treatment facilities in various fields. The city's health sector completed the creation of electronic health records, provided guidance on creating electronic health records for all citizens, and instructed on linking with medical facilities in cases without health insurance.

However, Can Tho's healthcare sector still faces challenges such as outdated and damaged infrastructure and equipment in some units; insufficient and inconsistent information technology infrastructure; and a shortage of IT personnel to meet the requirements of the sector's comprehensive digital transformation.

Associate Professor, Doctor Hoang Quoc Cuong, Director of the Department of Health of Can Tho City, proposed that the city prioritize and increase budget allocation for the health sector; pay attention to investing in digital infrastructure; supplement resources to serve administrative reform and digital transformation; strengthen training and development of modern management skills for the staff and civil servants in the health sector; issue a specific mechanism to support investment resources and allocate a stable medium-term budget for digital transformation in healthcare; invest in facilities and equipment for health stations early; allow piloting the ordering of healthcare packages for the people; and promptly approve the general plan for the healthcare system, especially the 300-hectare high-tech medical zone.

Mr. Dong Van Thanh, Member of the Central Committee of the Party, Standing Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, and Chairman of the People's Council of Can Tho City, delivered a directive speech.

You may also like

100% of children, students, and university students receive a health check-up at least once a year.Following a proposal from the Ministry of Education and Training, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 973/QD-TTg approving the School Health Program for the period 2026-2035.

Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Dong Van Thanh emphasized: Resolution No. 72 places great demands on the work of protecting, caring for, and improving the health of the people. Effectively implementing the resolution will not only improve the quality of healthcare for people in the area but also contribute to promoting the role of the medical center of the Mekong Delta region. He also requested the implementation of several key tasks: accelerating progress and urgently advising on the development and completion of programs, projects, targets, and tasks for 2026; comprehensively reviewing the tasks implementing Resolution No. 72 and Program No. 11, focusing on strengthening grassroots healthcare and preventive medicine; accelerating the progress of periodic health check-ups, electronic health records, electronic health books, and centralized medical databases; ensuring human resources and improving the quality of medical services.

Text and photos: H.HOA

Source: https://baocantho.com.vn/tap-trung-cung-co-y-te-co-so-y-te-du-phong-a206322.html