(VOV) – Professor Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has led a Vietnamese delegation to the 64th session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Western Pacific Regional Committee Meeting (RCM) and related meetings in Manila, the Philippines from 21-25 October 2013.
The event saw the participation of 28 out of 33 member nations and Western Pacific territories along with health officials and experts.
Health Minister Kim Tien delivered a key-note speech as Chair of the 63rd session hosted by Vietnam in 2012.
In her speech, Tien emphasized the importance of promoting solidarity and coordination between countries at international forums and mobilizing all resources to deal with regional challenges towards common goals.
She also spoke highly of the health achievements recorded from the previous RCM in preventing infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), eradicating polio, measles, responding to disasters, improving community health care and developing the medical system.
Minister Tien shared Vietnam’s healthcare development strategy in the time to come, noting that its health sector will focus on key areas such as covering all the people healthcare insurance, reforming health finance, intensifying the management of hospitals and drug use, and preventing NCDs to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on health care by 2015.
The Vietnamese health sector is set to expand local medical networks, improve the quality of primary healthcare, enabling everyone to have access to high-quality health services, Tien said.
At the 64 RCM, Dr Shin Young-soo from the Republic of Korea (RoK), WHO Regional Directorfor the Western Pacific for the 2009-2013 term was re-elected as Director for the next term.
Đăng ký: VietNam News