Proactively implementing health criteria in new rural construction

Disease prevention propaganda at Vinh Ha commune health station, Vinh Linh district - Photo: TL

According to the set of criteria for new rural communes in the 2021 - 2025 period, to achieve criterion number 15 in the health sector, each locality needs to achieve 4 targets including: the rate of people participating in health insurance; the rate of population with electronic medical examination and treatment books; the commune meeting national criteria on health and the rate of children under 5 years old with stunted malnutrition.

In recent times, implementing the criteria on healthcare, the grassroots healthcare network in the province has continued to be consolidated and innovated, playing an important role in preventive healthcare activities and primary healthcare for the people, contributing to reducing the burden on the upper level.

The work of medical examination and treatment for people in communes that meet national health criteria has had positive changes, the quality of medical examination and treatment has been improved, attracting patients to come for examination and treatment. Thereby bringing practical economic benefits to the people, especially the poor and those with health insurance cards.

Identifying propaganda and mobilization as the top priority in implementing the new rural development program, the health sector has focused on integrating propaganda, support, and guidance for localities to implement new rural criteria in the professional fields of the responsible departments. Propagating the meaning, rights, and obligations of participating in health insurance; installing remote medical examination and treatment applications, and creating electronic health records.

Strengthening communication work to raise people's awareness of the position and importance of primary health care in building new rural areas... Along with that, localities have focused on supporting and training cadres for primary health care with sufficient management capacity, implementing technical decentralization, improving the quality of preventive activities and medical examination and treatment.

At the same time, continue to mobilize investment resources to build and strengthen the medical examination and treatment network at the grassroots level; regularly train and improve the professional qualifications and ethics of medical staff, and improve the quality of medical examination and treatment at the grassroots level.

Up to now, all commune health stations have sufficient medicine to ensure primary health care for local people, manage medicine according to regulations, and no serious adverse events related to drug use have occurred.

Professional work on preventive medicine, infectious disease prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, environmental sanitation, food safety, medical examination and treatment, rehabilitation, combining traditional and modern medicine, maternal and child health care, population - family planning, health communication and education... has achieved positive results.

The implementation of health criteria in the construction of new rural areas has contributed to raising awareness, compliance with laws and regulations on health of rural people; building, consolidating and developing the system of medical equipment and facilities, creating conditions for rural people to improve their enjoyment and participation in health insurance at the highest level.

The national target program on new rural construction has helped many rural areas change their appearance, infrastructure has been invested in, built and upgraded, people's lives have been improved, creating opportunities for people to access health care services covered by health insurance according to regulations.

Along with the achieved results, the implementation of criterion No. 15 on health care still faces many difficulties. Some localities still rely on support from higher levels in investing in infrastructure projects, and have not paid due attention to promoting the role of the subject in implementing indicators and criteria associated with promoting community awareness. In addition, the set of criteria for communes meeting national health standards for the period 2021-2025 with enhanced indicators compared to the period 2015-2020, so some communes have not yet achieved and are in the process of striving.

The implementation of the national criteria for commune health care is still facing difficulties due to the lack of awareness in some localities, which consider this the sole responsibility of the health sector and health stations. To effectively carry out remote medical examination and treatment, people need to have an electronic health book integrated on VNeID. However, currently, the percentage of people with an electronic health book is only 18.12%. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen communication and support people to implement VNeID level 2 and integrate health insurance cards on the VNeID application...

To continue implementing the health criteria in the program of building new rural areas and advanced new rural areas, the health sector needs to regularly monitor and provide professional support to grassroots health care to complete the health indicators in the program of building new rural areas. At the same time, call for and mobilize the participation and more active contributions of the community in joining hands with the health sector to implement the health criteria.

Increase investment in improving the capacity of preventive medicine at the grassroots level to be able to control epidemics and infectious diseases; prevent and combat occupational diseases, accidents and injuries, school health care and diseases related to the environment; proactively prevent and combat non-communicable diseases, focusing on screening, monitoring and managing chronic health in the community.

Continue to innovate and improve the operational capacity of health stations, ensuring full implementation of primary health care tasks for the people; carry out comprehensive and continuous health management for each person in the area.

Improve the operational efficiency of the village health network and population collaborators to effectively implement activities on health education and communication, food safety, environmental sanitation, etc. Promote and mobilize people to participate in health insurance to achieve the prescribed targets, ensuring that 100% of communes implement targets on electronic medical examination and treatment, remote medical examination and treatment, and effective management of population through software.

Develop investment projects to build new, upgrade, renovate infrastructure, and supplement equipment for medical stations. Continue to strengthen human resources, ensure human resources for medical examination and treatment for people right in the area. Mobilize resources to invest in upgrading facilities and equipment for district medical centers to meet the needs of people's health care in the new situation.

Thanh Le

Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/chu-dong-thuc-hien-tieu-chi-ve-y-te-trong-xay-dung-nong-thon-moi-192701.htm