Health

Hai Duong Provincial People's Council considers policies to attract and treat human resources in the medical sector

SNOW WIND • December 8, 2024 16:00

To improve human resources in the medical sector, the People's Council of Hai Duong province will consider policies to support training, attract and treat medical human resources at public agencies and units under the province's management for the period 2025 - 2030.

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Hai Duong Provincial People's Committee proposed the Provincial People's Council approve the issuance of policies, spending about 219 billion VND to re-energize the health sector's human resources (illustrative photo)

At the 28th Session scheduled to open tomorrow morning, December 9, the Hai Duong Provincial People's Council will consider the proposal of the Provincial People's Committee to issue a resolution regulating policies to support training, attract and treat medical human resources at public agencies and units under the province's management for the period 2025 - 2030.

Regarding training support policy, Hai Duong Provincial People's Committee recommends that training participants continuously update medical knowledge, basic specialized training, and advanced specialized training receive one-time support after completing the course equal to 70% of tuition fees, training costs according to invoices, tuition receipts, and training costs of training facilities qualified to organize training according to regulations.

Participants in university training courses are supported with 70% of tuition fees according to invoices and tuition receipts from public training institutions.

Participants in postgraduate training courses are supported with 100% of tuition fees according to invoices and tuition receipts from public training institutions.

Those who receive a postgraduate diploma will receive one-time support for research, study, and doctoral expenses of 100 million VND/person/course; specialist II doctors and resident doctors will receive 50 million VND; masters and specialist I doctors will receive 30 million VND.

Regarding the policy of attracting and treating doctors working at commune-level health stations, the Provincial Center for Mental Health, People with Merits and Social Affairs, and the Provincial Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Center, postgraduate doctors are supported with 400 million VND/person, general practitioners or medical doctors are supported with 300 million VND/person.

Doctors working in specialized departments of psychiatry, pathology, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, infectious diseases and emergency resuscitation are supported at many levels, the highest is 500 million VND/person if they are PhDs, specialist II doctors...

The Provincial People's Committee also proposed specific support levels for doctors working at the Department of Food Safety and Hygiene, Department of Population, Rehabilitation Hospital, Traditional Medicine Hospital, Center for Disease Control, Lung Hospital, Tropical Disease Hospital, Mental Hospital, District, Town and City Medical Centers; doctors working at the Provincial General Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Eye and Dermatology Hospital, Children's Hospital, pharmacists working at public health units... See details of support levelshere.

Regarding benefits, doctors working at commune health stations are supported monthly with 20% of their current salary, doctors working at ward and town health stations are supported monthly with 15% of their current salary.

The estimated cost of implementing the policy is about 219 billion VND (equivalent to 36.5 billion VND/year) from the provincial budget according to decentralization.

The number of medical staff in Hai Duong as of March 31 was 7,434 people. To achieve the goal of 19 doctors per 10,000 people by 2030, the number of doctors needed is 3,713. Therefore, it is expected that Hai Duong will lack about 1,505 doctors.

Currently, Hai Duong is lacking doctors, especially at the grassroots level and in some difficult-to-recruit specialties. In 2023, only 29 doctors were recruited.

Meanwhile, the number of doctors at commune health stations has gradually decreased due to retirement, transfer to higher levels, resignation, and job abandonment... Some of the province's policies on training support and attraction are no longer attractive, so it is necessary to develop new policies to overcome the shortage of medical staff, especially doctors, grassroots health workers, and specialized sectors. Thereby, creating conditions and contributing to improving the quality of care and protection of people's health.

SNOW WIND