Health Minister: Many hospitals are fine

At the Government meeting on April 3, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that when the Government issued Resolution 30 and Decree 07, it basically removed obstacles in import, bidding, procurement of drugs, equipment and medical supplies˳ ˳

Basic hospital operations have returned to normal˳ On the other hand, many issues related to payment of medical examination and treatment costs, health insurance, receipt of donated equipment and supplies, etc˳ are also solved˳

The Minister mentioned many specific examples such as Viet Duc Hospital has reopened 5 bidding packages that had to be stopped, Bach Mai Hospital has just opened a bidding package worth 200 billion VND…

Last weekend, the ministry extended the third phase of drug circulation permits and so far 10,353 types of drugs, medicinal ingredients, vaccines and medical biological products have been renewed˳

“When Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai signed Resolution 30, many hospital leaders messaged me that the hospital had been ‘revived'”, Minister Dao Hong Lan shared˳

And at the regular government press conference in March on the afternoon of 3-4, replied about how the Government had solutions to solve the difficulties of medical equipment, so far, how to solve the problems of hospitals,

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong said that on March 3, the Government issued Decree No˳ 07 amending a number of articles of Decree 98 regulating medical equipment˳

According to Ms˳ Lien Huong, the decree, after being promulgated, has promptly solved all the difficulties faced by hospitals in the procurement and bidding of medical equipment as well as meeting the supply and solving problems˳ backlog of imported medical equipment˳

This is the basis for manufacturing and trading enterprises to supply medical equipment for managers at all levels, especially leaders of hospitals and medical facilities, to clearly define their responsibilities, powers and duties˳ duty˳

From there, contribute to providing the medical industry with quality equipment, right value and effective use for the protection and care of people’s health,” said Ms˳ Lien Huong˳

For cases of lack of equipment due to the medical equipment license and the registration number of the medical equipment, diagnostic biological products expired while the progress of granting new circulation of medical equipment has not been met˳ In response to social requirements, Decree 07 stipulates to extend the validity of import licenses and circulation numbers of medical equipment so that the medical equipment import license has been issued from January 1, 2018 to January 31, 2018˳ 12-2021 will continue to use until December 31, 2024˳

Circulation registration numbers for medical equipment that are diagnostic biological products issued from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2019 may continue to be used until December 31, 2024˳

Organizations that have been granted import permits and granted free-sale registration numbers of medical equipment must satisfy the conditions prescribed by law and are responsible for ensuring the quality, quantity, types and purposes˳ use medical equipment˳

The Ministry of Health will inspect, and revoke the import license as well as the circulation number of medical equipment in cases of violation of regulations on management of medical equipment˳

The Ministry of Health extended an additional 760 drugs and medicinal ingredients

The Drug Administration of Vietnam (Ministry of Health) has just issued a decision announcing the extension of 760 drugs and medicinal ingredients until December 31, 2024˳