Kinhtedothi - Using images of doctors, nurses, and medical facilities to advertise functional foods is a violation of the law. The Ministry of Health has sent a document to all Departments of Health as well as medical facilities nationwide as a reminder.
On the afternoon of November 11, at the question and answer session of the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan answered questions about a group of issues in the health sector with the following contents: mobilizing and arranging medical forces, ensuring medicines and medical supplies for people and disease prevention and control after natural disasters; granting licenses and practice certificates in the field of medical examination and treatment...
Using images of doctors to advertise functional foods is a violation.
Delegate Khang Thi Mao (National Assembly Delegation of Yen Bai Province) asked the Minister of Health to inform her whether the practice of people wearing white coats claiming to be hospital doctors advertising functional foods is in accordance with regulations or not? If so, how will they be handled?
Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that currently, advertising related to drugs, functional foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics has full legal provisions related to this content. The current Advertising Law, which is being revised as well as the regulations and guidelines for implementation, clearly stipulates that the use of images of doctors, nurses, and medical facilities for advertising is not allowed. The Penal Code also clearly stipulates the levels related to criminal handling if violating the law on advertising.
Therefore, the Minister affirmed that the use of these images is against regulations. The Ministry of Health has sent a document to all Departments of Health as well as medical facilities nationwide to remind and request each officer and employee of the health sector not to participate in advertising that violates regulations.
Solutions to limit brain drain to the private sector?
Participating in the questioning session on the health sector, delegate Nguyen Thi Yen Nhi (National Assembly Delegation of Ben Tre Province) stated that in the past, after being trained at the address, doctors did not work as assigned by the competent authority or did not work for the committed time, and were willing to move to work at private hospitals. This has affected opportunities, the State budget and the arrangement of personnel at public health facilities. The delegate asked the Minister of Health to give his views and solutions to limit this situation in the coming time.
Responding to this issue, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan affirmed that from the beginning of 2021 to June 2022, the situation of medical staff quitting their jobs became serious with more than 9,000 people.
After the pandemic, the Ministry of Health has had many solutions to address this situation. In particular, the Ministry of Health focused on amending the decree on allowances and incentives for medical staff; amending the decision related to the regime of medical staff in villages... At the same time, localities are also urgently assessing the situation of using public medical staff.
According to Minister Dao Hong Lan, public health workers account for 95% of the workforce serving the people and play a very important role. However, without appropriate policies and effective solutions, attracting and retaining health workers will face many difficulties, leading to a drain of talent to private health facilities.
There is also the situation where one practitioner is in charge of many medical examination and treatment facilities.
National Assembly Delegate Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy (National Assembly Delegation of Da Nang City) reflected that recently, voters in the health sector have been very upset about the place where medical practice licenses are issued. Practitioners can apply for a practice license in any locality, leading to one person having many practice licenses and being in charge of technical expertise at many medical examination and treatment facilities in many different provinces and cities.
The delegate requested the Minister of Health to have a management solution to ensure that each practitioner is only granted one practice license and is registered in the name of one medical examination and treatment facility according to the provisions of the Law.
Answering this question, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that implementing the provisions of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment (amended), as well as Decree 96/ND/CP related to the granting of practice licenses to practitioners, there are provisions that a practitioner has only one license. Currently, we are moving towards nationwide management of the use of practitioner licenses. The Minister said that in the past, the Ministry of Health had software to manage medical practitioners nationwide and up to now, 430 thousand people have been put under management out of a total of more than 600 thousand practitioners nationwide.
Along with that, the Minister of Health also said that this system was built since 2015 on the basis of a closed system, so the updating, management and use are in accordance with the spirit of Decree 96/ND-CP and the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment in 2023. The Ministry of Health is adjusting the contents to upgrade this software and will connect with the online public service system of localities, as well as the national online public service system. At the same time, the Ministry of Health is also implementing solutions to have a unified system nationwide.
"At that time, leaders at all levels and local health departments can consult and grasp information about practitioners to manage them in accordance with regulations," said Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan.
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