Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến (second
left) visits a family doctor training centre in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District.
The health sector will develop the family doctor model in the coming time. –
Photo hanoimoi.com.vn
The
development of the family doctor model will go together with the health system
at the grassroots level.
This is
one of the targets of the family doctor model expansion plan in Việt Nam in the
2016-20 period, which was launched at a conference held by the health ministry
(MoH) yesterday in the northern mountainous Lào Cai Province.
During
the conference, health experts shared experiences and thoughts about the
development of the family doctor model with the aim of improving the health
system at the grassroots level.
Trần Giáng
Hương, director of the International Co-operation Department under the MoH,
said the family doctor model was run in pilot programmes in eight provinces and
cities.
The
programmes made several achievements, but still met some difficulties in
operating the model, and in incorporating it with the local health system
effectively.
The
country now has 1,200 doctors specialising as family doctors.
Several
participants at the conference said the number was few compared to the real
demand, and so the health sector should consider assigning more doctors to work
as family doctors, and prepare plans to train family doctors.
Trần Quý
Tường, deputy director of the MoH’s Medical Services Administration, said
effective expansion and implementation of the family doctor model was expected
to reduce hospital overcrowding and improving the workforce for local medical
stations.
They were
also two out of nine priorities of Việt Nam’s health sector in the 2016-20
period, he said.
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