Deputy Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc directed to mobilize capital for purchase of medical equipment for three infirmaries located in the city gateways as soon as possible.
The health sector has identified three changes in the strategy for COVID-19 prevention and control, relating to the combination of samples for testing, home quarantine for children under five years of age, and the transportation of goods stuck in pandemic-hit areas.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested the Ministry of Health to develop specific action plans for the following years in line with goals and visions set by the upcoming 13th National Party Congress.
At the yesterday ceremony to congratulate acting Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long who has been appointed as health minister, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed that in the upcoming time, the new health minister must direct to well control Covid-19 and other diseases including diphtheria, dengue and seasonal flu.
The health authority in Ho Chi Minh City in coordination with state competent agencies will pay unscheduled visits to production facilities, industrial parks and export processing zones especially those that have not complied with Covid-19 prevention regulations.
Ho Chi Minh City’s health sector has applied technology and artificially intelligent tools which have primarily brought good results contributing to the smart city project.
Chairman of People’s Committee in the central city of Da Nang Huynh Duc Tho requested the health sector to learn lesson from recent medical incidents, announced the Office of Danang National Assembly Delegation, People’s Council and People’s Committee yesterday.
After three-year implementation of the project “For a healthy heart of community”, around 58 percent of residents aged over 40 have been screened for high blood pressure.
The Department of Tourism and the Department of Health in Ho Chi Minh City jointly organized a program named “Introducing medical tourism products in the dental and traditional medicine field” yesterday to enhance potential development opportunities in the medical tourism field.
Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Tran Thanh Man said that Fatherland Front and health sector, related agencies, religious organizations should expand healthcare services.
