According to the reports heard a conference in Hanoi on April 13, the national target programmes of the health sector in 2011-2015 period helped raise public awareness of the importance of individual and community health care, curbing the number of patients and deaths caused by dangerous diseases and preventing epidemics.
Head of Planning and Finance Department under the Health Ministry Nguyen Nam Lien said the ministry was assigned four programmes targeting health care, ensuring food safety, population and family planning, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Specially, the National Health Target Programme was carried out through five projects, gaining satisfactory results in the project for preventing some dangerous diseases.
In the past five years, the health sector implemented its goal to reduce the rate of people suffering from dengue fever to 18% of dengue cases for 100,000 people compared to 2006-2010.
Screening examinations and management for high-blood pressure patients was deployed in 1,179 communes and wards across the country, benefiting over 2 million people.
Besides, the expanded vaccination project ensured over 90% of children under one year old were fully vaccinated.
The health sector also promoted efforts to eliminate polio and neonatal tetanus.
Positive results were also showed in the National Target Programme on Food Safety, with food safety management agencies set up from the central to local level.
According to reports delivered at the conference, the National Target Programme on Population and Family Planning contributed to improving the quality of service delivery. The service was provided for people in 5,700 disadvantaged communes with high birth rates.
Meanwhile, the National Target Programme on HIV/AIDS Prevention helped control the rate of HIV/AIDS injections in the community at less than 0.3%.
In the 2016-2020 period, the National Health Target Programme will be deployed with eight projects, focusing on preventing some dangerous infectious diseases and some common non-contagious diseases, expanding vaccination campaigns, ensuring blood safety and preventing hematological pathologies, promoting medical and population communication, and enhancing links between army and civil medical establishments, among others.
Head of Planning and Finance Department under the Health Ministry Nguyen Nam Lien said the ministry was assigned four programmes targeting health care, ensuring food safety, population and family planning, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Specially, the National Health Target Programme was carried out through five projects, gaining satisfactory results in the project for preventing some dangerous diseases.
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Screening examinations and management for high-blood pressure patients was deployed in 1,179 communes and wards across the country, benefiting over 2 million people.
Besides, the expanded vaccination project ensured over 90% of children under one year old were fully vaccinated.
The health sector also promoted efforts to eliminate polio and neonatal tetanus.
Positive results were also showed in the National Target Programme on Food Safety, with food safety management agencies set up from the central to local level.
According to reports delivered at the conference, the National Target Programme on Population and Family Planning contributed to improving the quality of service delivery. The service was provided for people in 5,700 disadvantaged communes with high birth rates.
Meanwhile, the National Target Programme on HIV/AIDS Prevention helped control the rate of HIV/AIDS injections in the community at less than 0.3%.
In the 2016-2020 period, the National Health Target Programme will be deployed with eight projects, focusing on preventing some dangerous infectious diseases and some common non-contagious diseases, expanding vaccination campaigns, ensuring blood safety and preventing hematological pathologies, promoting medical and population communication, and enhancing links between army and civil medical establishments, among others.
