HÀ NỘI —
An integration programme on military – civil medical services has created an
extensive network of healthcare services and disease prevention and
consolidated the country’s healthcare system at the grassroots over the past
ten years.
Speaking
at the fifth conference on military - civil medical service integration in Hà Nội
on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam highlighted the programme’s
contribution to people and soldier’s healthcare in remote, mountainous, border
and island areas, along with protection and poverty reduction, in important
defence and security regions of the country.
Đam said
that the health and defence ministries should work closely in developing
strategies for further consolidation of a healthcare system at the grassroot
levels in border and island areas.
Along
with infrastructure and facility investment, it needed to pay more attention to
health and human resources and to expand effective models in the country’s
weakest localities such as mountainous, remote, border and island areas.
The Deputy
PM said that military hospitals not only performed traditional tasks of
people’s healthcare and protection, disease and disaster prevention, but also
provided medical services to local residents.
He
suggested that the two ministries should promote the programme’s advantages in
victim search and rescue during disasters and other emergency situations.
Deputy
Health Minister Phạm Lê Tuấn said that in the near future, the programme would
implement measures to develop a healthcare system at the grassroots level while
ensuring military health services.
The
programme would focus its activities on providing needy people living in
difficulties and key defence and security areas more access to quality
healthcare, and promote the health sector’s abilities to respond to emergency
situations, Tuấn said.
Tuấn said
that the programme contributed to the country’s socio-economic development and
defence and security consolidation from 2005 to 2015.
A network
of 152 military – civil health clinics were established at border guard
stations along the country’ border lines. Besides providing medical services,
military medical staffs also participated in implementation of national health
programmes such as immunisation, malaria and malnutrition prevention,
population and family planning, according to Tuấn.
“Six
health clinics were set up with modern facilities, especially operation rooms
with telemedicine systems established in Bạch Long Vĩ, Phú Quý, and Thổ Chu
islands,” Tuấn said.
The
health ministry reports that the programme has an improved capacity of 529
commune health clinics nationwide with a total investment of more than VNĐ420
billion (US$18.7 million) during the past ten years.
Under the
programme, more than 23 million residents were provided free health check-ups
while more than 65,000 soldiers received medical services by civil doctors.
On the
sea and island areas, military medical force also provided rescue services to
over 6,641 people, including 1,885 soldiers and 4,756 residents.
The
defence ministry has appointed helicopters to send 62 injured and sick patients
from the island to the mainland for emergency service and treatment.
VNS
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