On the morning of October 21, at the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly, Head of the People's Petition Committee Duong Thanh Binh presented the report of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the results of supervising the settlement and response to voters' petitions sent to the 7th session of the 15th National Assembly.
Regarding recommendations and results of handling and responding to voters' recommendations, through voter meetings, 2,289 voters' recommendations have been compiled and sent to competent authorities for resolution, in which a number of areas continue to receive much attention from voters, such as: labor, war invalids and social affairs; health; transportation; agriculture, rural areas; natural resources, environment; education and training. To date, 2,238 recommendations have been handled and responded to, reaching 97.8%.
The National Assembly and its agencies have responded to 35/35 petitions, reaching 100%. Many issues of concern and petition from voters have been received by the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee, closely linked to legislative activities, supervision and decision-making on important issues of the country. The Government, ministries and central branches have resolved and responded to 2,112/2,162 petitions, reaching 97.7%.
The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuracy have resolved and responded to 27/27 petitions, reaching 100%, including responses to support funding for local People's Courts to organize online trials; increase equipment and facilities for local People's Procuracies; and provide guidance on the application of a number of articles of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The monitoring results show that, in addition to the achieved results, the settlement of voters' petitions still has some limitations that affect the legitimate rights of some subjects and the effectiveness of implementing some preferential policies of the state. One of the main reasons leading to this situation is that the law-making work is still slow.
3 years, policy still cannot be implemented because waiting for instructions
Report cited, on January 18, 2022, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 90 approving National target program on sustainable poverty reduction for the period 2021 - 2025.
Accordingly, "low-income workers" are one of the beneficiaries of the policy of "developing vocational education in poor and disadvantaged areas".
However, since 2022, voters in many localities have continuously petitioned the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to issue specific guidelines on defining “low-income workers”. Because there is no basis for defining “low-income workers”, localities cannot implement the policy under Decision No. 90.
This means that after nearly 3 years of Decision No. 90 coming into effect, there is still no guidance on defining “low-income workers”, so this preferential policy has not been implemented in practice, while the implementation time of the decision is only more than 1 year.
The National Assembly Standing Committee recommends that the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs urgently advise on the development and submission to the Government for promulgation of guidelines on identifying "low-income workers" as a basis for localities to implement, and at the same time draw experience in advising, developing and promulgating policies, ensuring that the policies are effectively implemented in practice.
Vaccine shortage due to slow planning
The report also mentioned that voters in many localities complained about the lack of vaccines in the country. Expanded immunization program at public health facilities Therefore, many children are not vaccinated on schedule or have not received enough doses, so they are at high risk of infection.
Through monitoring, it is shown that the Government has issued Resolution No. 98 dated July 10, 2023 on allocating the central budget in 2023 to the Ministry of Health to purchase vaccines for the Expanded Immunization Program. The Resolution has identified ensuring the earliest availability of vaccines as an urgent task and assigned the Ministry of Health in July 2023 to submit to the Government a decree amending Decree No. 104 regulating vaccination activities according to simplified procedures and processes.
However, it was not until February 5, 2024 that Decree No. 13 amending Decree No. 104 was issued, according to which the central budget is allocated in the regular expenditure budget of the Ministry of Health to ensure funding for activities in the Expanded Immunization Program.
It was not until June 2024 that the Ministry of Health issued the 2024 expanded vaccination plan, too late for localities to implement it.
According to the report, in many localities, the shortage of vaccines in the Expanded Immunization Program has occurred since the end of 2022, and this situation is still occurring as of September 2024.
The Standing Committee recommended that the Government direct the Ministry of Health and localities to take drastic measures to ensure adequate and timely supply of vaccines in the Expanded Immunization Program.
According to the report, voters in Thai Nguyen and Lang Son provinces proposed that the Ministry of Health soon issue economic and technical norms as a basis for calculating medical service prices.
Through monitoring, it is shown that, according to the provisions of Decree No. 60, by the end of 2021, the roadmap for calculating public service prices will be basically completed; according to Decree No. 96 detailing a number of articles of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment: "Medical examination and treatment facilities are allowed to continue to pay for medical examination and treatment costs according to regulations issued or approved by competent authorities until new regulations are issued but no later than December 31, 2024".
Up to now, the Ministry of Health has not issued full guidance documents according to its authority on pricing methods and specific prices for medical examination and treatment services while there are only nearly 3 months left until the deadline for applying new prices for medical examination and treatment services.
The National Assembly Standing Committee recommends that the Ministry of Health urgently issue economic and technical norms and methods for calculating prices for medical examination and treatment services to be applied from January 1, 2025.
The appraisal report also informed that recently, voters in many localities have also proposed many issues related to adjusting monthly allowances for youth volunteers who have completed their tasks in the resistance war; policies and regimes for preschool teachers; support for students and primary schools in especially disadvantaged communes and villages, and students of ethnic boarding schools and ethnic preparatory schools.
The Standing Committee of the National Assembly recommends: The agencies of the National Assembly continue to further enhance the quality of supervision activities on the promulgation of legal documents. The National Assembly delegations continue to improve the quality of synthesizing and classifying voters' recommendations; ensure the time to send reports synthesizing voters' recommendations in a timely manner, in accordance with regulations. For the Government and Central Ministries: Focus on resolving existing shortcomings as stated in the report; continue to pay more attention to resolving and responding to voters' petitions. |
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