Effectively Protecting People's Health

Since early 2014, the health sector actively introduced Action Plan 49/KH-SYT dated January 15, 2014 to carry out Project 3713 and Decision 3713/QD-UBND to review and regulate working regulations of the healthcare sector.

 

While clearly assigning tasks for health officials, the Department of Health proposed the Provincial People's Committee to urge its subordinate units to apply proper healthcare regulations and processes. The Department of Health issued Decision 2274/QD-SYT date December 24, 2014 on supervision and inspection of tasks assigned by the department and its director.

 

In public administration reform, the department accelerated administrative reform. It issued policies on administrative reform like Decision 1618/QD-SYT dated October 24, 2013 on administrative reform plan in 2014, Plan 1541/KH-SYT dated December 19, 2013 on information of administrative reform in 2014, Decision 14/QD-SYT dated January 20, 2014 on perfection of the Steering Committee on Health Administration Reform. The department improved the quality and strictly implemented information reporting regimes, coordination mechanisms and assembly mechanisms. So far, the Department of Health has issued nearly 2,500 regulatory documents and 2,292 decisions, an increase of 50 percent over 2013.

 

The single-window unit received and settled 1,201 records, including 519 disease examination and treatment records and 685 pharmaceutical - cosmetics records; handled 1,106 records, returned 1,087 records on schedule and 19 records behind schedule. It granted 374 certificates of medical practice, 50 operation licences for clinics, and 436 certificates of pharmacy practice.

 

In information technology application, the department upgraded electronic mobile office into electronic intelligent office (IO); effectively maintained and managed access to information system. The department also carried out IT application project to enhance the administration of health authorities and deployed the IT application project to improve PAPI index in health sector in 2015 and in 2016-2020 period.

 

The department advised the provincial government on preventive measures to ward off disease outbreaks and infections, specially the complicated, unpredictable Ebola epidemic in the world. The department focused on measures to prevent diseases like measles (347 people contracted from February 1 to June 26, including 31 positive cases), dengue fever (108 cases were diagnosed in Ky Anh and Nghi Xuan districts and Ha Tinh City), hand, foot, and mouth disease (71 cases were detected in Thach Ha, Cam Xuyen and Loc Ha districts and Hong Linh Town), and chickenpox (30 cases). The Ha Tinh Preventive Medicine Centre issued instructive documents and provided information about rabies prevention for district medical facilities and preventive medicine centres. Health officers were trained on rabies prevention and control.

The health sector also effectively performed health quarantine at border gates and seaports, raised healthcare at schools and workplaces, instructed the construction of water supply works, medical units, schools and standard toilets.

 

The health sector built plans for scientific research, professional and administrative training in 2014 to submit to the Department of Home Affairs, the Organisation Committee of Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee for consideration and approval. The Department of Health issued Official Letter 287/SYT-TCCB dated March 6, 2014 on instructions for professional training for health officials and public servants. In 2014, the department sent 34 officers to postgraduate training courses, five to foreign language classes, and three to national security and defence courses.

 

The department worked with medical schools to recruit doctors and pharmacists. In 2014, it advised recruiting 61 high-quality staff members, including 45 doctors, six pharmacists, five diagnostic imaging bachelors, four sampling doctors, and one public health bachelor; and recruited eight doctors with special policy for hospitals in need of high-quality personnel like Mental Hospital and Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Hospital.

In 2014, GAVI Project trained 440 health workers for commune clinics and 240 health workers for village medical stations. Apart from supporting short-term medical postgraduate training, clinical and subclinical training, the Northern Central Project transferred techniques like laparoscopic surgery, obstetrics, emergency and ENT for 27 doctors from district hospitals, opened one ultrasound training class for 31 doctors and one traditional medicine class for 34 health workers at commune medical stations.

 

The department also seriously executed Circular 07/2014/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health on Regulations on Code of Conduct of personnel at health facilities. It inspected and disciplined health workers and invited the Ministry of Health to train 80 key hospital officials in hospital quality management.

 

The department strengthened comprehensive management over activities of health officials and workers, promptly rectified and corrected any signs of ideological deviance and harassments. It set up two discipline panels to raise ethic standards at medical units.

 

In 2014, the sector had 86 research projects on professional and technical medical application.