Standing Committee of Culture and Social Affairs works with the Ministry of Health

Vice Chairman of the Committee for Culture and Social Affairs Nguyen Hoang Mai chaired the meeting.

Reporting at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Health Le Duc Luan said that in 2025, the work of forecasting, monitoring, detecting and preventing epidemics will continue to be proactively implemented. Strengthening the management and treatment of non-communicable diseases, preventing harmful health risk factors, such as environmental pollution, tobacco, alcohol abuse, etc. Strengthening HIV/AIDS prevention; medical environmental management will continue to be comprehensively deployed in the fields of medical waste management, chemical control and insecticide and disinfectant preparations as well as other environmental protection tasks. Directing the implementation of solutions to improve the quality of hospital management, patient safety and safety for medical staff. Traditional medicine, combined with modern traditional medicine, will continue to be focused on.

Deputy Minister of Health Le Duc Luan reports at the meeting

In the field of population, the representative of the Ministry of Health said that programs, projects and policies on population and development continue to be completed and implemented synchronously to ensure replacement fertility, control gender imbalance at birth, improve population quality and adapt to population aging.

Deputy Minister of Health Vu Manh Ha and delegates attending the meeting

In addition to the achieved results, the representative of the Ministry of Health also frankly stated that the basic health indicators and the ability to access health services are still different between regions, areas and localities. Primary health care has not yet provided adequate primary health care services, screening for early detection of diseases for people has not been widely implemented, and has not created trust for patients...

Vice Chairwoman of the Committee for Culture and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy speaks

National Assembly member working full-time at the Committee for Culture and Social Affairs Nguyen Thanh Cam speaks

Delegates highly appreciated the health sector for its efforts to comprehensively implement tasks in the areas of responsibility: health, population, social protection, prevention and control of social evils, and children; at the same time, deploying the application of information technology to serve digital transformation in the health sector; implementing the arrangement, regulations on decentralization and delegation of authority to ensure a streamlined health sector apparatus, smooth and effective operation.

There are opinions suggesting that the Ministry of Health continue to pay attention to promoting administrative procedure reform in medical examination and treatment activities; focus on improving medical ethics for doctors and service attitude of medical staff; direct the completion of laws, strengthen inspection and supervision in the field of food safety.

At the meeting, representatives of the Ministry of Health explained and clarified issues of concern to delegates.

Concluding the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Committee for Culture and Society Nguyen Hoang Mai suggested that the Ministry of Health continue to review the problems that need to be overcome and handled immediately; noting that the National Assembly has empowered the Government to adjust a number of provisions in the laws and resolutions of the National Assembly to promptly remove difficulties and legal problems in order to promote socio-economic development. Therefore, the health sector needs to be proactive and bold in proposing and recommending to the Government, promptly finding solutions to remove difficulties and problems. The Ministry of Health should study and propose solutions to reform health finance, mobilize and effectively use all resources for health development; assign a unit to review newly issued policies and laws, promptly advise and propose to the Ministry to develop and issue documents guiding the implementation of the law.

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