Approval of Healthcare Network Planning for the period 2021–2030, with a vision to 2050 in Vietnam

Approval of Healthcare Network Planning for the period 2021–2030, with a vision to 2050 in Vietnam (Internet image)

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On February 27, 2024, the Prime Minister of Vietnam signed Decision 201/QD-TTg approving the Healthcare Network Planning for the period 2021–2030, with a vision to 2050.

Approval of Healthcare Network Planning for the period 2021–2030, with a vision to 2050 in Vietnam

The development goals until 2030 are as follows:

- Overall objectives: Build and develop a national network of medical facilities in accordance with the requirements of protecting, caring for, and improving people's health, towards the goals of equity, quality, efficiency, and international integration; ensuring inheritance, feasibility, and compatibility with the country's socio-economic development conditions in each period; Improve the quality of medical services to the level of advanced countries in the region and the world.

- Specific objectives and targets:

+ Develop a network of medical examination and treatment facilities capable of providing quality medical services to meet people's health care needs. Ensure that each region has a general hospital that undertakes regional functions; develop specialized centers in general hospitals; Upgrade a number of provincial-level specialized hospitals capable of providing specialized technical services to meet the health care needs of people in the region.

Develop a number of modern, high-tech specialized hospitals on par with advanced countries in the region and internationally. Consolidate and develop the out-of-hospital emergency system. Develop specialized and high-tech private hospitals providing high quality services and advanced technology, some of which are on an international level.

+ Form a central disease control center and regional disease control centers; upgrade provincial disease control centers to ensure sufficient capacity to forecast, monitor, early detect, promptly and effectively control epidemics, and control risk factors affecting public health. Establish a biosafety level 4 laboratory for the central disease control center, biosafety level 3 laboratory for regional disease control centers.

+ Upgrade the national institute in the field of testing, inspection, and standardization of drugs, vaccines, biological products, and medical equipment to international standards. Develop regional testing centers that meet national standards; develop a national medical equipment inspection and calibration center and medical test quality control centers to meet the needs of testing, inspection, and calibration on drugs, cosmetics, food, and medical equipment from provinces and cities in the region.

Develop research centers and production zones focusing on pharmaceuticals, vaccines, biological products, and high-tech medical equipment to strengthen domestic production capacity and increase export value. Build a national unit to research and transfer vaccine technology.

+ Improve professional capacity for medical assessment, forensic assessment, and forensic psychiatric assessment facilities to meet assessment requirements.

+ Develop a network of medical facilities providing reproductive health services; meet the long-term care needs of the elderly.

+ Strive by 2025 to have 33 hospital beds per 10,000 people, 15 doctors per 10,000 people, 3.4 pharmacists per 10,000 people, and 25 nurses per 10,000 people; By 2030, there will be 35 hospital beds per 10,000 people, 19 doctors per 10,000 people, 4.0 pharmacists per 10,000 people, and 33 nurses per 10,000 people, and the proportion of private hospital beds will reach 15% of the total number of hospital beds.

More details can be found in Decision 201/QD-TTg, taking effect on February 27, 2024.

Nguyen Ngoc Que Anh

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