A project to enhance the capability of public and private reproductive health services in Vietnam was introduced at a seminar in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on April 5.
The implementation of the 36-month project under the sponsorship of the European Commission (EC) late last year began in January 2010 in a bid to contribute to alleviating poverty by reducing through reducing mothers’ fatality in rural and remote areas in Vietnam, which is part of the Millennium Development Goals.
The project is designed to increase the access to and quality of family planning and essential reproductive healthcare services and improve the public and private health establishments’ capacity for managing and monitoring reproductive healthcare and family planning services.
Speaking at the seminar, the chief representative of Marie Stopes International in Vietnam (MSIVN), Nguyen Bich Hang, said that her organisation will closely work with target localities to test the model of combining the state and private sectors in providing reproductive health care at grassroots level.
In addition, MSIVN will cooperate with relevant health services and agencies to issue service cards for medical payments on a trial basis to draw lessons for the Government’s plan aimed at extending health insurance to cover the whole population by 2014.
EC helps enhance reproductive health care services’ capability
A project to enhance the capability of public and private reproductive health services in Vietnam was introduced in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
Source: VNA
