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€18 million for health care support to the poor in the Northern Uplands and Central Highlands
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18/10/2005
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CPV: Dr Markus Cornaro, Head of the European Commission Delegation to Vietnam and Ms Tran Thi Trung Chien, Minister of Health signed the Financing Agreement of the “Health Care Support to the Poor of the Northern Uplands and Central Highlands” (HEMA) project with a total value of € 19.4 million last month.
The initiative is expected to start in January 2006 and will run until December 2010. It will be part of the external assistance of the European Commission to Vietnam, which is averaging € 40 million per year.
Building on the EC funded “Health system development project”, which was implemented during the period of 1998-2005, the HEMA project is designed to ensure the provision of high quality preventive, curative and promotive care in the Northern Uplands mountainous provinces of Dien Bien, Son La, Lai Chau and the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum where majority of local population are poor ethnic minority people.
This will be done through the effective implementation of the Government of Vietnam's Strategy for provision of health care for the poor (as stipulated in particular in the revised Decision 139 and the new Decree 63 of the government).
The project will help to put in place reforms that aim at making health services more efficient as well as more equitable. Public money and foreign aid will be used to subsidize, in a well-planned and sustainable way, the purchase of quality health care packages from providers on behalf of poor people.
The project, with an EC grant of € 18 million and a € 1.4 million contribution from the Government of Vietnam, will focus on activities at both policy-development and implementation levels.
At organisational and policy development level, the project will support the separation of the regulatory, financing and health care provision functions within the health system.
At implementation level, for the selected provinces and districts, the project will provide a basic package of health services to the population of districts and provinces with a large proportion of poor. It will be administered by a motivated health care staff, working in an environment that is technically better resourced, financially well-functioning, and therefore more encouraging to set up effective and efficient insurance mechanisms and effective monitoring, control and quality assurance systems.
Anh Tuan
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