Commune-level clinics strive to attract local patients
Clinics in communes have improved their healthcare services and facilities to attract more local people and reduce patient overloads at city and province-level hospitals. Medical experts have said the grassroots healthcare system is the foundation of the national health system and if the grassroots system is done well, it can meet 70 percent of common healthcare needs.
Vietnam has set a target that by 2025, over 90 percent of the population will have health management records, 95 percent of commune, ward and town health establishments will carry out preventive medicine and provide treatment of some non-infectious diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, and by 2030, more than 95 percent of the population will have health management and 100 percent of grassroots clinics will be able to treat some non-infectious diseases.
