The Prime Minister outlined 6 key groups of tasks and solutions for health and education
Can Tho - The Prime Minister pointed out 6 key groups of tasks and solutions in the fields of health and education for continued implementation in the coming time.
On the afternoon of December 28, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the National Assembly Delegation of Can Tho City met with voters after the 10th Session of the 15th National Assembly.
The meeting with voters was held with the participation of more than 300 voters who are officials, civil servants, public employees, and lecturers in the education, training and health sectors in Can Tho City.
Sharing more about the content of this meeting with voters, the Prime Minister emphasized that education and health are two areas that everyone, every family, and everyone cares about, everyone needs health and lifelong learning; the Party and State also pay special attention to these two areas, with the spirit of putting people's lives and health above all, first of all, taking people as the center, subject, as the goal, driving force and resource for development.
On the other hand, the Mekong Delta also has 2 biggest bottlenecks related to strategic infrastructure, including healthcare, education infrastructure and related to the development of high-quality human resources.
Emphasizing that the Party and State have no other goal than to firmly protect the country's independence and sovereignty and constantly care for the material and spiritual life of the people to be increasingly improved, the Prime Minister said that in order to implement the Resolutions of the Politburo, the Government has submitted to the National Assembly for promulgation at the 10th Session laws and resolutions to promptly institutionalize and organize implementation.
In particular, specifying Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW on protecting, caring for and improving people's health, the Government has submitted to the National Assembly 2 laws and 1 resolution including the Population Law, the Law on Disease Prevention and Control and the Resolution on a number of breakthrough mechanisms and policies for the work of protecting, caring for and improving people's health, aiming to build a healthy Vietnam, with all people having health care, living long, healthy, living healthily and happily, with the spirit of "prevention is better than treatment".
In particular, the Prime Minister said that, based on the investment policy of the National Target Program on health care, population and development for the 2026-2035 period approved by the National Assembly at this Session, the Government will direct the Ministry of Health to urgently complete the dossier to decide to invest in the Program, including 5 projects with a total resource of nearly 90-100 trillion VND to achieve specific and practical goals such as: (1) Improving the capacity of the grassroots health network; (2) Improving the effectiveness of the disease prevention system; (3) Improving health; (4) Population development; (5) Improving the quality of social care for the disadvantaged; (6) Strengthening communication on health.
On this occasion, the Prime Minister praised Can Tho City, ministries, branches and agencies for seriously implementing the Prime Minister's instructions more than 2 months ago (when the Prime Minister met with Can Tho voters before the 10th session) on implementing related procedures to urgently complete the investment project to build the new Can Tho Oncology Hospital with the conversion from ODA loans to using public investment capital; at the same time, the procedures for purchasing 2 radiotherapists for the current Can Tho Oncology Hospital (expected to be available in the first months of 2026).
At the same time, the Prime Minister directed the need to urgently upgrade Can Tho Cardiovascular Hospital and Can Tho Maternity and Pediatrics Hospital in 2026, if necessary, and report to the Prime Minister for any shortage.
In the field of education and training, the Prime Minister also said that at the 10th Session, closely following the Politburo's policy in Resolution No. 71, the Government submitted and the National Assembly passed 3 laws and 1 resolution related to education: Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Education; Law on Higher Education; Law on Vocational Education and Resolution on a number of specific and outstanding mechanisms and policies to implement breakthroughs in education and training development.
At the same time, the Government has also submitted to the National Assembly for approval the investment policy for the National Target Program on modernization and improvement of the quality of education and training for the 2026-2035 period with a total resource of more than VND580 trillion to implement 4 specific target groups for 4 groups of subjects, including: (1) Preschool education, general education; (2) Vocational education; (3) Higher education; and (4) Teachers, education managers and learners.
The main task of this Program is to invest in synchronously upgrading and modernizing facilities, teaching and vocational training equipment, experimentation, research and innovation centers, start-up support centers and digital transformation infrastructure of educational and training institutions at all levels; at the same time, deploy solutions to foster, train and improve professional capacity, digital capacity, foreign language skills and modern pedagogical skills for the teaching staff; enhance management capacity, innovation management for educational management staff; develop core competencies, digital skills and comprehensive qualities for learners.
The Prime Minister also requested Can Tho and the Mekong Delta provinces to implement the arrangement of the educational institution system, in which kindergartens and general schools are arranged according to the 2-level government model, 17 universities are arranged in the direction of increasing scale, reducing focal points, improving quality...
ro rangly identifying 6 key groups of tasks and solutions in the coming time to continue implementing the policies and guidelines of the Party and State on health and education, the Prime Minister directed ministries, branches and localities, including Can Tho City, to continue reviewing and building, perfecting institutions, removing bottlenecks, turning institutions into national competitive advantages to attract domestic and foreign resources.
Second, invest in strategic infrastructure for the two sectors of education and health with the right requirements and development goals, including the goal of rapid and sustainable development, without sacrificing progress, fairness and social security to pursue simple growth; reduce input costs for healthcare and education services and increase competitiveness for people to benefit.
Third, focus on training human resources in these two fields to meet development requirements, not only university or higher education but also to pay comprehensive attention, through many stages, many steps, taking care of people throughout life, through all levels of education, to have a modern, fair and effective education and healthcare system.
Fourth, continue to build mechanisms and policies to attract human resources for the two sectors, such as salary policies, tax, credit, housing incentives, etc.; in finance, promote public-private cooperation, take public investment to lead private investment and strengthen the autonomy mechanism appropriately.
Fifth, continue to review and manage the two sectors according to the 2-level local government model, shifting the status from management to service; arrange appropriate facilities, people, expertise and smart governance, focusing on digital transformation; voters monitor this process.
Sixth, promote digital transformation applications such as digital records, electronic health books connected to VNeID to make it convenient for people, reduce costs, time, inconvenience...
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