A government action plan details how education, healthcare and public units will be restructured for efficiency.
The Government has recently issued Resolution No. 105, setting out an action plan to implement Conclusion No. 210 of the 13th Party Central Committee on continuing to build and refine the organizational structure of the political system in the coming period.
The resolution outlines the restructuring of public service units, education and healthcare institutions, as well as state-owned enterprises, in line with central directives.
Regarding public service units under ministries and ministerial-level agencies, the Government stated that most units defined in existing decrees on functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures will remain unchanged.
However, further reviews and restructuring will continue for units such as project management boards, research institutes and vocational education institutions. Higher education institutions will be reorganized in accordance with a plan developed by the Ministry of Education and Training and submitted to competent authorities for approval.
The Government also set out a direction for reorganizing media agencies in accordance with regulations issued by competent authorities.
Units that have achieved financial autonomy for regular expenditures or higher, and align with approved planning, will be maintained.
At the same time, public service units under ministerial offices and departments will be streamlined to ensure lean structures and effective operations, focusing on state management functions and the provision of essential public services. Other units will be required to achieve financial self-sufficiency for regular expenditures or beyond.
No more than three vocational schools per locality
The government emphasizes ensuring that each commune-level administrative unit has at least one kindergarten, one primary school, and one lower secondary school. Photo: Thach Thao.
For higher education institutions, the Government requires implementation of the restructuring plan, including reviewing, merging or dissolving institutions that fail to meet standards or operate inefficiently.
In vocational education, each province or centrally governed city will have no more than three vocational schools dedicated to training skilled workers for socio-economic development and investment attraction, excluding those that are financially self-sufficient.
Intermediate vocational schools that are financially autonomous will be maintained, while others will be merged with colleges.
Similarly, each locality will have a maximum of three colleges capable of providing articulation and practical training, excluding financially autonomous institutions. The remaining colleges will be merged or integrated into higher education institutions.
For preschool and general education, mergers will only take place within the same commune-level administrative unit. Priority will be given to retaining schools with favorable infrastructure, transport access and population concentration, while substandard satellite campuses will be dissolved.
The Government emphasized ensuring that each commune-level administrative unit has at least one kindergarten, one primary school and one lower secondary school. Multi-level general education models will be prioritized in sparsely populated or hard-to-reach areas.
Vocational education and continuing education centers will be reorganized into inter-commune centers or merged to form vocational high schools equivalent to upper secondary level, in line with the revised Law on Vocational Education.
Transforming district health centers into regional hubs
The government aims for each province and city to have at least one advanced-level hospital, including a geriatric hospital or a general hospital with a geriatric department. Photo: Nguyen Hue.
In preventive healthcare, the Government aims to strengthen provincial-level Centers for Disease Control to enhance surveillance, early warning and timely response to epidemics.
Public hospitals at the provincial level will largely remain unchanged, with increased socialization in areas where conditions allow. Each province or city is expected to have at least one specialized hospital, including a geriatric hospital or a general hospital with a geriatric department.
District-level health centers will be maintained in principle but reorganized into regional health centers under provincial health departments.
Provincial health directors will be responsible for proposing plans to maintain, reorganize, merge or dissolve underperforming centers. Preventive care, population and health communication functions may be transferred to commune-level health stations, while treatment functions will be assigned to existing regional general hospitals or reorganized into such facilities to provide basic healthcare services across clusters of communes.
District-level general hospitals will also be maintained and transformed into regional general hospitals under provincial management, delivering healthcare services to populations beyond administrative boundaries.
Commune-level health stations will continue to operate under the guidance of the Ministry of Health, ensuring the provision of essential preventive services, primary healthcare and social care for residents.
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