The plan of disease prevention of 2018 in Tien Giang province well implemented

ABO - On December 27, Tien Giang Department of Health organized an online conference to summarize the task in 2018 and implemented the orientation task in 2019.

Deputy Chairman of the Tien Giang provincial People's Committee Tran Thanh Duc attended the confenrence.

At the conference.

According to the report of Tien Giang Department of Health, in 2018, Tien Giang health sector achieved the plan of disease prevention; health education communication and health target programs.

The situation of medical examination and treatment at the levels was relatively stable, reducing to the extent the overloading at medical facilities. In particular, the health sector actively coordinated with the provincial social insurance to adjust the number of initial registration cards for health insurance at medical units; health insurance coverage in 2018 reached 82.2%, etc...

In 2018, Tien Giang health sector was invested from the provincial budget of 65 billion VND to buy medical equipment for hospitals and district health centers; 18.9 billion VND to equip telemedicine system, etc... creating favorable conditions for the health sector to improve its capacity to fulfill the task of protecting, caring and improving people's health.

Deputy Chairman of Tien Giang provincial People's Committee Tran Thanh Duc speaks at the conference. Photo: thtg.vn

Addressing the conference, Deputy Chairman of Tien Giang provincial People's Committee Tran Thanh Duc acknowledged and praised the achievements in health work in 2018, at the same time, he asked the sector to focus on well implementing the targets plan in 2019 for improving health both physically and mentally, stature, life expectancy, quality of life of the people, building a fair, quality, effective health system and international integration, etc ...

(According to thtg.vn – Translated by NGUYEN HUU)