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THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
130/2002/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, October 04, 2002
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DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL POLICY ON MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT IN THE 2002-2010 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of December 25, 2001;
Pursuant to the Law on Protection of the People’s
Health of June 30, 1989;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s
Decision No. 35/2001/QD-TTg of March 19, 2001 approving the strategy for
protection and care of the people’s
health in the 2001-2010 period;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the national policy on medical
equipment in the 2002-2010 period, including the following principal contents:
1. General objectives:
To adequately supply medical equipment to
various levels as prescribed by the Ministry of Health. To step by step
modernize equipment for medical establishments so as to raise the quality of
protection and care of the people’s
health. To strive to reach the level of the region’s
advanced countries by 2010 in terms of technical standards of the medical
equipment. To train the contingent of specialized technicians in order to
exploit the use of, maintain, repair and expertise medical equipment. To
develop the medical equipment industry with a view to gradually raising the
proportion of home-made goods and proceeding to export them.
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a/ To strive for the adequate supply and
efficient exploitation of common medical equipment for disease-prevention and
-treatment establishments by 2005 as prescribed by the Ministry of Health.
b/ To continue equipping and promoting the
efficiency of three specialized health centers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and
Hue.
To draw up 2002-2010 plans for step by step
construction of specialized health centers in various regions according to
socio-economic areas, especially in remote and deep-lying areas as well as
regions inhabited by ethnic minority people.
c/ To expand the manufacture of common medical
equipment, ensuring the adequate supply to satisfy 40% of the service’s demand by 2005, and 60% by 2010. To step up the
manufacture of hi-tech medical equipment as well as advanced technological
chains for the manufacture of medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and vaccines.
3. Implementation plan:
a/ Stage 1: From 2002 to 2005
Targets to be attained:
- To ensure the essential medical equipment for
the medical establishments from grassroots to the central level according to
the Health Ministry’s standards.
- Home-made products shall make up around 40% of
the total common medical equipment.
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b/ Stage 2: From 2006 to 2010
Targets to be attained:
- Medical examination and treatment
establishments of various levels shall be quantitatively and qualitatively
equipped with adequate medical equipment according to the Health Ministry’s list of standards.
- The central hospitals and provincial general
hospitals shall be adequately equipped with technical facilities for diagnosis
and therapy, thus meeting requirements of providing medical examination and
treatment for people according to the assigned technical lines, reaching the
level of average advanced countries in the region in terms of technical
standards of medical equipment.
- To continue building, perfecting and promoting
the efficiency of specialized health centers.
- To step up the production of advantageous
domestic goods, to raise their quality and proceed to export them, ensuring the
adequate supply to satisfy 60% of the demand for common medical tools and
equipment.
- To build the medical equipment industry with
focal points and key contents, aiming to:
+ Meet the domestic use demand;
+ Raise the quality of products for export.
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- To consolidate and improve the system of
training human resources specialized in medical equipment techniques in order
to efficiently exploit and use medical equipment, well maintain and repair the
furnished medical equipment.
- To perfect the organizational system, raise
the capability and efficiency in the activities of State management over
medical equipment, create an appropriate environment in order to avail
ourselves of international cooperation and joint venture in the field of
medical equipment.
4. Solutions:
a/ Enhancing the State management over medical
equipment:
- To perfect the medical equipment management
system from the central to local levels. Medical establishments and district
health centers shall be staffed with professional officials to monitor the work
of medical equipment and supplies. Hospitals, central clinics and provincial
general hospitals shall have their medical equipment and technical supplies
sections.
- To exercise the uniform State management over
the trading, import and export of medical equipment from the central to local
levels.
- To step up the inspection and examination of
quality, the supervision of efficiency of exploitation and use of medical
equipment at medical equipment-using establishments and business system
according to the State regulations. To conduct regular expertise of medical
equipment being used at medical establishments as well as of home-made and
import products.
- To promulgate incentive and preferential
policies towards scientists as well as scientific and technological
establishments involved in medical equipment research, manufacture and use
exploitation, as well as provision of medical equipment technical services; to
encourage domestic medical equipment-manufacturing and trading establishments.
To build the capital recovery mechanism for operation maintenance and
re-investment of medical equipment. To promulgate the regulations on the annual
funding for the expertise, maintenance and repair of medical equipment.
b/ Development of human resources specialized in
medical equipment:
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- To include the basic contents on management,
technique-technology, and skills on the use of medical equipment in the program
on training of medical and pharmaceutical officials of university or
intermediate level.
- To raise the quality and expand the scale of
training of the contingent of medical equipment technicians.
c/ Investment in development of the medical
equipment manufacturing industry and service:
- To make prioritized investment in medical
equipment manufacture in order to attain the efficiency, economy and
rationality between specialized and universal health.
- To concentrate efforts on manufacture of
common medical equipment in service of local health, population-family planning
program, primary healthcare, single-use tools and equipment in service of
school and family health.
- To enhance the medical equipment technical
service.
d/ Consolidation of medical equipment trading
and import/export system according to the State regulations.
e/ Enhancing medical equipment scientific
research, technological application and transfer as well as international
cooperation:
- To study new medical equipment as well as
therapy and diagnosis methods in the world for selective application in
Vietnam.
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4. Implementation funding:
Funding for implementation of the policy shall
come from the following sources:
- The State budget;
- Support from domestic and foreign
organizations;
- Loan capital from ODA sources as well as
domestic and foreign development assistance funds;
- Other sources (if any).
Article 2.- Basing itself on the Government’s socio-economic
development orientations in each year and each period, the Ministry of Health
shall draw up plan, assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the
concerned ministries, branches and localities in organizing the implementation
of the objectives of the national policy on medical equipment.
Article 3.- This Decision takes effect 15 days after its
signing for promulgation.-
Article 4.- The ministers, the heads of the
ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the
Government, and the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and
centrally-run cities shall have to implement this Decision.
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FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
PHAM GIA KHIEM