Doctors perform laparoscopic surgery at Lao Cai Provincial General Hospital

With the attention of the Party Committee and authorities, the efforts of the team of physicians and doctors and the cooperation of the whole community, over the past time, Lao Cai province has done well in primary health care. for people according to Project No. 7 "Development of health care, health care and improvement of the people's health in Lao Cai province, period 2016 - 2020".

This is one of 19 key projects, with important meanings, directly impacting the people's life and health, completely in accordance with Resolution No. 20-NQ / TW. Implementing Project No. 7, the People's Committee of Lao Cai province has issued many plans with the determination to speed up to the finish line before important targets right in 2019. After 5 years of implementation, Lao Cai has achieved important results: Investment resources are paid attention, basic construction and additional equipment have been actively deployed. Districts and cities have cooperated with the health sector in investing in health facilities. Supportive policies of the province have brought into full play and rapidly developed highly qualified health workforce. investing in material foundations, medical equipment, training human resources, developing advanced techniques at home and abroad; renovating the Obstetrics and Pediatrics hospital to put into use in October 2018, the Endocrinology Hospital put into use from November 2019; Rehabilitation hospital (Stage 1); Center for HIV / AIDS prevention phase 3; ... The investment from the provincial, district, city to commune level has been paid attention to, helping the care and improving people's health to be highly effective. than. Up to now, the communes have basically met the national health standards. 

To develop medical services and high-tech services in medical examination and treatment. To invest in the development of medical services in the field of prevention, contributing to patient service. The quality of medical examination and treatment for the people at medical facilities has been improved, a number of provincial and district hospitals have joined the satellite hospital project of the Ministry of Health and are actively supported by central hospitals. training and technology transfer. Actively implementing projects: Project 585 on piloting sending young doctors to volunteer to work in mountainous, remote and isolated areas, areas with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions, Project 1816 on sending staff to rotate to support to lower levels in order to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, deploy many techniques for transgression, successfully cure many difficult cases in the province. By the end of 2020, the number of new technical service packages that the province has deployed is: 129/101 (reaching 127.7% of the plan); the number of new technical service packages that the district has deployed is 125/98 (accounting for 138% of the plan).

Improving the quality of food safety and hygiene, building a pilot model for food safety; monitoring the risk of food contamination. The percentage of food establishments that passed satisfactory inspection increased from 84% in 2018 to 90% in 2019.

Maternal and child health care has been strengthened, effectively using local funding sources. It is estimated that by the end of 2020, the natural population growth rate of the whole province will be 1.2% (reaching the project target). The rate of people participating in health insurance in the whole province reaches: 98.91%; The rate of expanded vaccination reaches 97.2% (12 vaccines) ... 

Human resources for health play a key role, building a contingent of health workers to meet the needs of people's health care. Continue to implement many solutions to improve the quality of human resources in the health sector. Focusing on training, improving professional qualifications and ethics of the team of medical doctors and medical staff and interested in implementing remuneration policies. The result attracted 47 doctors, supported to train 97 staff; 765 staff enjoy preferential policies ... It is estimated that by the end of 2020, the ratio of doctors per 10,000 people will reach 12.3 doctors.

Lao Cai Health sector is constantly improving knowledge, professional qualifications, improving the attitude of serving patients, well completing the task of caring, protecting and improving people's health./ .