Prime Minister: Pay attention to preventive medicine when removing district level, sending 1,000 more doctors to grassroots level

y tế - Ảnh 1. — The Government Standing Committee and the Government Party Committee Standing Committee met with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education and Training - Photo: VGP

The meeting of the Government Standing Committee and the Government Party Committee Standing Committee chaired by the Prime Minister with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Health on important draft projects to be submitted to the Politburo discussed the draft project to build a national target program on education and training development and the draft project to build a national target program on health care, population and development.

Choose a "leverage, fulcrum" solution

Welcoming the preparations of the agencies, the Prime Minister emphasized two very necessary and practical issues for the people. Especially to develop high-quality human resources, develop quickly and sustainably, taking people as the center, subject, goal, resource and driving force of development.

Requiring continued completion of the project, the Prime Minister noted that the two ministries need to review the implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, and relevant resolutions, conclusions, and directions of the Central Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, the National Assembly, and the Government in these two areas.

These are also nationwide, comprehensive issues, related to the entire political system while carrying out many major tasks. Therefore, it is necessary to identify a number of goals, tasks, and solutions that are "leverages and fulcrums" to focus on implementation, to complete each task, to complete each task, not to spread out the objects and time, to avoid waste.

In which, 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 project on education and training development, it is necessary to closely follow the resolutions and directions of the Politburo on fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training.

Focus on improving the quality of teaching and learning, developing people comprehensively in both "morality, intelligence, physical beauty", continuing to value "morality" and "intelligence" education and emphasizing "physical" and "beauty" education.

Modernize and solidify schools, especially build boarding schools for ethnic minority students, remote areas, border areas, and islands.

The spirit is to ensure equal access to education, leaving no one behind; promote foreign language training, especially English.

Focus on primary health care, send teachers to remote areas

Regarding 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 a year should each person see a doctor; prevent and treat incurable diseases and tropical diseases; develop more maternity and pediatric hospitals and geriatric hospitals; pay attention to preventive medicine and primary health care, especially in the context of administrative boundary arrangement, eliminating the district level; have a plan to respond to population aging; focus on propaganda and education.

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 to the grassroots, especially in remote, border, and island areas, especially foreign language teachers.

Along with that, promoting the digitization of data and records in the health and education sectors, especially lifelong health records of people and student records, this work needs to be focused on in the first 6 months of 2025.

Emphasizing the need to improve people's knowledge, train human resources, and foster talents, 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 partnership; promote learning combined with practice, training associated with research; and promote international cooperation.

Choose a "leverage, fulcrum" solution

Focus on primary health care, send teachers to remote areas

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