New information on the plan to arrange hospitals and schools across the country

(Dan Tri) - The Central Steering Committee requested to merge and dissolve substandard higher education institutions; continue to arrange and transfer a number of hospitals under the Ministry of Health to provincial management.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh , Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution No. 18, signed Plan 130 of the Steering Committee on rearranging public service units, state-owned enterprises, and organizations within the state administrative system.

Merging and dissolving substandard higher education institutions

Regarding administrative organizations at the Central level , the Steering Committee requires continuing to review and streamline the organizational structure in ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies, especially department-level units and bureaus under ministries and branches, to ensure that functions and tasks are not duplicated.

The Steering Committee thoroughly recommends not to establish departments within departments under ministries and branches. In special cases, with departments under ministries and branches that have recently merged or consolidated from 3 or more department-level focal points or have a large number of staff (from 45 staff or more), it is possible to consider establishing departments (implemented in accordance with regulations, each department has 15 or more people).

Viet Duc Hospital, Branch 2 (Photo: Thai Ba).

At the local level, it is necessary to urgently issue regulations on the functions, tasks, and organizational structure of provincial and communal agencies, units, and organizations, especially agencies, units, and organizations after mergers and acquisitions according to the new model, and propose and make reasonable adjustments if necessary.

For public service units , the Steering Committee requires only retaining units under ministries and branches serving political tasks and leading units associated with the functions and tasks of ministries and branches that fully meet the criteria and conditions for establishment according to regulations.

For academies, universities, colleges, and vocational training institutions , the Steering Committee requires strong decentralization of management of vocational training institutions to local authorities; arrangement and restructuring of higher education institutions; merger and dissolution of substandard higher education institutions.

Along with that, according to the Steering Committee, it is necessary to study merging research institutes with higher education institutions, transferring some universities to local management.

Regarding hospitals , the Steering Committee continues to reorganize and transfer a number of hospitals under the Ministry of Health to provincial management. The Ministry of Health manages a number of specialized, high-tech, leading hospitals to carry out professional guidance tasks, train high-quality human resources, conduct scientific research, transfer technology, coordinate disease prevention and control, public health emergencies, natural disasters, catastrophes, and health security.

Regarding public service units in the field of education in the locality , the Steering Committee said that it will basically maintain the existing public high schools, middle schools, primary schools, inter-level schools, and kindergartens; propose arrangements and adjustments if necessary to conveniently serve the needs of people and students.

In mountainous and highland provinces, ethnic minorities will continue to review and arrange separate schools to focus on forming boarding and semi-boarding schools for students at commune or inter-commune centers.

The Steering Committee also proposed to merge vocational education centers and continuing education centers into vocational secondary schools equivalent to high schools under the Department of Education and Training to provide public services in inter-ward and commune areas; each province and city should have no more than 3 vocational schools.

Each province and city has at least one specialized hospital.

Public service units in the health sector will maintain existing provincial-level public hospitals; promote socialization in places with sufficient conditions. Each province and city will have at least one specialized hospital; a geriatric hospital or a general hospital with a geriatric department.

In addition, the Steering Committee oriented to establish commune, ward and special zone health stations under the People's Committees at the commune level and medical examination points on the basis of previous commune-level health stations.

The previous district-level medical centers and general hospitals will be transferred to the Department of Health to organize care, examination and treatment according to inter-ward and inter-commune areas.

For public service units under specialized agencies under the provincial People's Committee (department) , the Steering Committee recommends continuing to research, review, arrange, and reorganize public service units under the department. Each department (except the Department of Education and Training and the Department of Health) maintains only one public service unit performing the function of serving State management, the remaining public service units must self-insure regular expenditures or more.

The Steering Committee requested the People's Committees of ministries, branches and localities to proactively develop plans to arrange public service units and send them to the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee for consideration, decision and to the Ministry of Home Affairs for synthesis before September 25.

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