Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: In 2025, the health sector must send 1,000 more doctors to the grassroots level.

On the afternoon of March 25, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member and Party Secretary, chaired a meeting of the Government Standing Committee and the Government Party Standing Committee with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Health on important draft projects to be submitted to the Politburo.

At the meeting, delegates discussed the draft project to develop the National Target Program on Education and Training Development (chaired by the Ministry of Education and Training) and the draft project to develop the National Target Program on Health Care, Population and Development (chaired by the Ministry of Health).

In his concluding remarks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that these are two very necessary issues in the current context, practical for the people; very important for the development of high-quality human resources, rapid and sustainable development, taking people as the center, subject, goal, resource and driving force for development.

The Prime Minister assigned the presiding agencies to continue completing the projects to report to competent authorities, with a spirit of urgency, quality, and focus.

The Prime Minister noted that the program development must simultaneously propose specific mechanisms, policies and roadmaps, in line with the medium-term public investment plan; ensure feasibility, efficiency, and create fundamental changes in practice.

With the National Target Program on Education and Training Development, the Prime Minister directed to focus on a number of contents: improving the quality of teaching and learning, developing people comprehensively in "morality, intelligence, physical fitness, and aesthetics"; modernizing and consolidating schools, especially building boarding schools for students from ethnic minorities, remote areas, border areas, and islands; promoting foreign language training, especially English.

The Prime Minister directed that it is necessary to clearly define tasks to perfect institutions, amend laws; train teachers; support mechanisms and policies and promote the initiative of teachers and learners; build infrastructure, promote public-private cooperation; promote learning combined with practice, training associated with research; and promote international cooperation.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the meeting on the afternoon of March 25.

With the project to build a national target program on health care, population and development, the Prime Minister directed to add content on caring for and protecting people's lives and health with specific goals, for example, how many times each person should have a medical examination and treatment in a year; prevent and treat incurable diseases and tropical diseases; develop more maternity and pediatric hospitals, geriatrics; pay attention to preventive medicine and grassroots health care, especially in the context of rearranging administrative boundaries, eliminating the district level; have a plan to respond to population aging; focus on propaganda and education work.

The Prime Minister requested that this year, the health sector must send 1,000 more doctors to the grassroots; the education and training sector must also study to increase the number of teachers in the grassroots, especially in remote, border, and island areas, especially foreign language teachers. Along with that, promote the digitization of data and records in the health and education sectors, especially lifelong health records of people and student records.

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