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Since mid-2022, I have been speaking on the National Assembly forum, suggesting that we should consider declaring the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, preparing to adapt to the post-pandemic period. This is very important for the country to change its state, to concentrate resources for recovery and socio-economic development.
The Prime Minister has directed the Ministry of Health to prepare a dossier to transfer Covid-19 from group A infectious disease to group B and announce the end of the epidemic in Vietnam. Up to now, from practical experience through anti-epidemic waves, I think that Vietnam can safely announce the end of the Covid-19 epidemic because it has met all the conditions.
The first condition is that the rate of severe illness caused by Covid-19 is almost gone. The deaths are mainly due to severe underlying diseases that are positive for Covid-19, which shows that Covid-19 is still contagious in the community but no longer poses a danger to people's lives, no longer poses a risk of causing serious illness. high mortality. The second condition, Vietnam has achieved a very wide vaccine coverage rate, injecting more than 266 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine. All people from 12 years old are vaccinated with 2 basic injections. The rate of 3rd injection for people from 18 years old reached 81%; 4 injection for people from 18 years old with high risk reached 89%; The third dose for children from 3 to under 12 years old reached 18%, which is a great success in vaccination. The third condition is that the Covid-69 epidemic situation in the world has stabilized. In early May, the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic no longer a global health emergency. These are the three basic and necessary conditions for Vietnam to transform Covid-5 from a group A infectious disease to a group B infectious disease.
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Group A infectious diseases are a particularly dangerous group with high transmission and wide spread, high mortality rate. Group B, on the other hand, is a group of dangerous infectious diseases that can be transmitted quickly and can cause death. When Covid-19 is no longer a group A infectious disease, we need to treat it as a specialist disease and treat it like other medical conditions, and the payment for treatment is the same as for other specialized diseases. is paid for by health insurance or self-pay for services.
After 3 years of anti-epidemic, we need to learn lessons from the successes and mistakes of the past. We cannot help but see the efforts of all social classes to join hands to prevent the epidemic. There are seemingly impossible things that we have accomplished in a very short and very good time, such as the establishment of a vaccine fund, large-scale vaccination, and the establishment of Covid-19 treatment hospitals. I still remember when the pandemic occurred, there was a decision to establish the Covid-19 Patient Treatment Hospital under the Hanoi Medical University Hospital, located in Hoang Mai District, Hanoi, as the last line in treating patients. Covid-19 in Hanoi and some northern provinces and cities, with a scale of 500 hospital beds. The Covid-19 treatment hospital at Hoang Mai campus was built on an empty lot, and it was the Prime Minister who directly mobilized businesses to contribute finance, put all his efforts into construction so that one month later, it could be completed and put into operation. motion. Thousands of patients with severe and critical Covid-19 have been cured and discharged from here.
We have seen a whole system come into play with more than 100% strength, but after the epidemic is over, there are still many unfortunate things happening, the lessons learned are extremely bloody and painful. Therefore, it is necessary to urgently prepare the necessary facilities, legal documents, and guiding procedures to better respond to other types of epidemics and a possible outbreak of Covid-19 again. I completely agree with the proposal of the National Assembly's supervisory delegation that the Ministry of Health should soon issue documents guiding the use of medical supplies and equipment that have been prepared to fight the epidemic and switch to treatment. routine medical examination and treatment. The Ministry of Health should assign local hospitals to decide on the use to avoid wasting the purchased and donated facilities and equipment.
In the 21st century, disease patterns are predicted to change a lot. The Covid-19 pandemic has passed, the consequences left behind may still scare many people, but we must not forget the important task of responding to the leading non-communicable diseases causing death today. such as heart disease, cancer. The State needs to allocate resources in a balanced way to both ensure better health care and respond well to possible pandemics.
