Building healthy and happy communities

Implementing the population policy in the new period, shifting the focus from controlling the quantity to improving the quality of the population, in recent years, the communes of Hanh Phuc, Tram Tau, Phinh Ho and Ta Xi Lang have promoted propaganda work on family planning, pre-marital health check-ups, and care for women, children and the elderly. Thanks to that, the awareness of ethnic minorities has been gradually raised, creating positive changes in health care and improving the quality of the population.

With the ethnic minority population accounting for the majority, to implement population policy in the new situation, Tram Tau Regional Medical Center together with the authorities and organizations of the communes have synchronously deployed many practical activities.

In particular, propaganda is identified as a key factor, at the same time directing commune health stations to promote propaganda integrating family planning policies, pre-marital health check-ups, health care for women and children, and periodic health check-ups for the elderly.

In particular, to improve efficiency, the team of medical and population staff at the grassroots level regularly organizes meetings, talks on topics and directly goes to each household to provide specific guidance on reproductive health care measures, scientific child rearing, and planned births.

Through that, the awareness of the people in general and ethnic minorities in particular has changed significantly. From having planned children, taking care of the health of themselves and their children has been formed, marking a strong shift from passive to active in implementing population policy.

According to Ms. Mua Thi Do in Mu Cao village, Hanh Phuc commune, in the past, women in remote villages were afraid to go to the health station, only gave birth at home, and paid little attention to regular pregnancy check-ups and vaccinations for their children. After the cadres came to each village and hamlet, giving direct instructions in the Mong language, people gradually understood that health care is very important, especially for women and children.

"When we are sick, we proactively go to the doctor. Women know how to apply family planning measures as well as fully vaccinate their children," Ms. Mua Thi Do shared.

In addition, Tram Tau Regional Health Center and the staff of commune health stations also synchronously deploy pre-marital health examination activities and adolescent reproductive health care. Thereby, contributing to improving knowledge and awareness of reproductive health care, preventing genetic diseases, early marriage, and consanguineous marriage, contributing to improving population quality from the early stages, building healthy and happy families.

Women and children's health care is also implemented in parallel. Women in the first week after giving birth are closely monitored, and newborns are fully vaccinated within the first 24 hours, minimizing the risk of disease.

Regular health check-ups for the elderly are carried out regularly to help vulnerable populations receive good care and improve their quality of life.

Doctor Nguyen Thi Mai Phuong - Head of Tram Tau Health Station, said: Careful and thorough guidance helps couples and families fully realize their responsibility to give birth to healthy children and raise them scientifically . Thanks to that, family planning and reproductive health care in Tram Tau commune are achieving increasingly positive results.

Thanks to the synchronous participation of regional health centers, health stations, Party committees, authorities, and organizations, family planning targets in the communes of Hanh Phuc, Tram Tau, Phinh Ho, and Ta Xi Lang achieved positive results.

In the first 9 months of 2025, the entire region had 453 women with intrauterine devices, 130 with contraceptive injections, 523 with oral contraceptives, and 350 with condoms; 800 elderly people received health check-ups; 390/554 women received care in the first week after giving birth; and 283 people received pre-marital health check-ups...

At Tram Tau Regional Health Center alone, 135/146 newborns were vaccinated against hepatitis B. Looking at the numbers, it can be seen that ethnic minorities in the Tram Tau area have made a positive change, from passive to proactive in implementing family planning, taking care of their health and that of their children.

Practices in the highland communes of Hanh Phuc, Tram Tau, Phinh Ho, and Ta Xi Lang once again confirm the effectiveness of implementing a synchronous population policy, associated with raising awareness and changing people's health care behaviors. This is a solid foundation for localities to continue improving population quality, developing human resources, and building healthy and sustainable communities.

Source: https://baolaocai.vn/xay-dung-cong-dong-khoe-manh-hanh-phuc-post886674.html