Vietnam: Commune-level healthcare stations shall provide professional and operational guidelines for village health workers

Specifically, according to the Circular No. 33/2015/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, commune-level healthcare stations shall provide professional and operational guidelines for village health workers as follows:

- Propose recruitment and management of village health workers to healthcare centers of districts (hereinafter referred to as “district-level healthcare centers”);

- Give guidelines on specialized tasks for village health workers providing primary healthcare and village midwives as per the law;

- Organize periodical briefings and participate in professional training and refresher courses for village health workers according to their levels.

Besides, commune-level healthcare stations shall cooperate with relevant regulatory bodies in population and family planning; provide family planning services according to their level of specialty and regulations of laws; inspect private healthcare practice and pharmacy practice and services that might affect people’s health:

- Participate and cooperate with competent authorities in inspecting private healthcare practice and pharmacy practice and services that might affect the health of people in their communes;

- Detect and report illegal healthcare activities, establishments and individuals providing products and services not meeting requirements on food safety or healthcare environment in their communes to authorities.

View more details at Circular No. 33/2015/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, effective from December 14, 2015.

Le Hai

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