Opening of the 2025 Village Health Worker Training Course in the Old Yen Bai Area

Pursuant to Official Dispatch No. 200/TTKSBT-SKSS dated August 15, 2025 of the Lao Cai Provincial Center for Disease Control on coordination in organizing training, on September 16, 2025, at Yen Bai Vocational College; The Provincial Center for Disease Control coordinated with Yen Bai Vocational College to organize the opening of a training course for primary level village and hamlet health workers for 35 students from villages, hamlets, communes and wards without health workers or health workers who have not received professional training according to the standard program in the old Yen Bai province.

Training class scene

By participating in the course, students will learn and be equipped with basic knowledge and skills to perform well the role of primary health care in the community according to the training program developed by Yen Bai Vocational College based on Circular No. 42/2015/TT-BLDTBXH dated October 20, 2015 and Circular No. 34/2018/TT-BLDTBXH dated December 26, 2018 of the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs on regulations for elementary level training and Circular No. 07/2013/TT-BYT dated March 8, 2013 of the Ministry of Health regulating standards, functions and tasks of village and hamlet health workers. The program will last 3 months with a total duration of 360 study hours, including 84 hours of theory, 90 hours of practice - internship at school and 180 hours of internship at the facility. The course content includes 3 modules: public health - hygiene and environmental sanitation; maternal and child health care; care for common diseases and first aid for common accidents.

Students and delegates take souvenir photos

This activity aims to supplement the human resources of grassroots health care , contributing to consolidating and improving the efficiency of the grassroots health care network, especially in remote, isolated and ethnic minority areas in Lao Cai province. At the end of the training course, trainees will be granted certificates and assigned to work locally.

Ngoc Hung

Source: https://syt.laocai.gov.vn/tin-tuc-su-kien/khai-giang-khoa-dao-tao-nhan-vien-y-te-thon-ban-nam-2025-khu-vuc-yen-bai-cu-1540414