Ministry of Health works with Tien Giang province

On May 31, the delegation of the Ministry of Health led by Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Long, worked with Tien Giang provincial People's Committee about the result of the implementation of the Joint Circular No.51 of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee (PPC) Tran Thanh Duc and leaders of related departments and agencies worked with the delegation.

At the working session.

In 2016, Tien Giang province popularized the Joint Circular No.51 and the Circular No.37. However, according to the decision of the PPC, the province has not yet established the Center for Disease Control and still remained in the status quo many centers under the preventive medicine system as before because the Ministry of Health has not yet issued the organizational structure, powers and functions of the Center for Disease Control.

Tien Giang Department of Health has also implemented and disseminated the content of the Joint Circular No.51 to merge entities and also planed to establish the Disease Control Center based on the merger of the HIV Prevention Center, the Center for Health Education and Communication and Preventive Medicine Center while other centers under the Preventive medicine system would be merged into many units of the medical team.

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long highly appreciated the achievement of Tien Giang province in the implementation of the Jont Circular No.51 and the Circular No.7 of the Ministry of Health. He also emphasized that the PPC needs to continue to deepen the remaining contents while removing difficulties and problems so that the implementation of the circulars go in depth and achieve the best results. ...

On behalf of the PPC, Deputy Chairman of the PPC Tran Thanh Duc acquired guidances from the delegation and asked related provincial departments to study and revise the plans with specific roadmap from infrastructure to human resources in oder to implement drastically of the circulars to be most effective.

(According to thtg.vn-Translated by Hoang An)