Legal Counselling

Tasks and powers of District-level Medical Centers in Vietnam

14:57, 25/10/2016

The Ministry of Health of Vietnam issued Circular No. 37/2016/TT-BYT providing guidance on the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of Medical Centers of suburban, urban districts, provincial cities, and municipality-controlled cities.

Specifically, according to Circular No. 37/2016/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, tasks and powers of District-level Medical Centers are prescribed as follows:

- Take actions to prevent and control infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, non-communicable diseases and mystery diseases; organize vaccination and school medicine activities; prevent and control factors affecting the human health or generating and spreading epidemics; manage and improve human health.

- Organize environment protection activities at healthcare facilities; manage occupational health and sanitation, and prevention of occupational diseases and accidents or injuries; manage sanitation in bury and cremation; monitor the quality of water used for drinking and daily activities, and community nutrition.

- Provide reproductive health care services and take actions to improve nutritional status of mothers and babies; cooperate with relevant agencies in performing population and family planning affairs.

- Do tests and medical imaging techniques so as to serve professional and technical activities within the ambit of functions and tasks of Medical Centers and as requested by patients; adopt measures to ensure biosafety at laboratories and radiation safety.

- …

View full text at Circular No. 37/2016/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, effective from December 10, 2016.

- Thanh Lam -

>> CLICK HERE TO READ THIS ARTICLE IN VIETNAMESE

77 lượt xem

- This English translation is for reference purposes only and not a definitive translation of the original Vietnamese texts;
- Articles may be compiled from a variety of sources;
- Applicable Terms may have expired at the time you are reading;
- If you have any questions about the copyright of the article, please contact us via email banquyen@lawnet.vn