Plan to implement Healthcare Facility Network Planning with vision to 2050

17/12/2024 14:43

(BNP) - Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long signed Decision No. 1576/QD-TTg dated December 16, 2024 on approving the Plan to implement the Healthcare Facility Network Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050 (Plan).


Developing medical human resources, ensuring human resource needs in both quantity and professional qualifications.

The plan aims to effectively implement Decision No. 201/QD-TTg of 2024 of the Prime Minister approving the Healthcare Facility Network Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050. It specifies tasks, solutions, and mobilizes resources associated with the responsibilities of ministries, central agencies, and localities in implementing the Healthcare Facility Network Planning. It also develops a roadmap for implementing the list of projects expected to be prioritized for investment, identifies key content, progress, and resources.

One of its main contents is to implement projects according to the Healthcare Facility Network Plan. In particular, projects using public investment capital are determined according to the principle of complying with the provisions of the Law on Public Investment, the Law on State Budget and documents of competent authorities related to public investment. It effectively uses public investment to activate, mobilize and attract all social resources, especially private resources, to participate in investment projects to develop health facilities according to the plan.

The Government clearly stated that it would build specific mechanisms and policies to take care of healthcare development and improve the quality of human resources. It continues to review, arrange, convert, and reorganize healthcare service units; adjusts functions and tasks appropriately to ensure that they meet the requirements of streamlining, effectiveness, and efficiency of public service units according to Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW in 2017 of the 12th Party Central Committee.

According to the plan, priority will be given to investing in upgrading 6 hospitals to international standards, including: Bach Mai Hospital, Vietnam German Friendship Hospital, Hue Central Hospital, Cho Ray Hospital, 108 Military Central Hospital, and 175 Military Hospital. At the same time, it will be given to investing in building the Central Highlands Hospital; the National Coordination Center for Human Organ Transplantation in Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City.

In the field of preventive medicine and public health, priority is given to investing in building a Central Center for Disease Control and investing in building 03 regional disease control centers.

In the field of population and reproductive health, priority will be given to investing in the construction of 2 prenatal and newborn screening and diagnosis centers in Thai Nguyen and Dak Lak. At the same time, priority will be given to investing in upgrading 06 prenatal and newborn screening and diagnosis centers in Hanoi, Nghe An, Thua Thien Hue, Ho Chi Minh City, and Can Tho.

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