Pursuant to …;
Regarding the approval of the Action Program
to prevent and control accidents and injuries in the community until 2010
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THE MINISTER OF HEALTH
Pursuant to Decree No. 188/2007/NĐ-CP dated December 27, 2007 of the Government on the Regulations on the Functions, Tasks, Authorities, and Organizational Structure of the Ministry of Health;
Pursuant to Decision No. 197/2001/QĐ-TTg dated December 27, 2001 of the Prime Minister approving the National Policy on Accident and Injury Prevention and Control for the period 2002-2010;
Pursuant to Decision No. 255/2006/QĐ-TTg dated November 9, 2006 of the Prime Minister approving the National Strategy on Preventive Healthcare in Vietnam until 2010 and orientations until 2020;
Considering the proposal of the Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment under the Ministry of Health,
DECISION:
Article 1Approves the Action Program to prevent and control accidents and injuries in the community until 2010 with the following contents:
1. General Objective:
Enhance the capacity to prevent and control accidents and injuries to reduce the rate of accidents and injuries in the community
2. Specific Objectives:
a) Over 80% of provinces and centrally-administered cities organize information, education, and communication activities on accident and injury prevention and control;
b) Over 80% of provinces and centrally-administered cities have a system for monitoring accidents and injuries;
c) 30% of provinces and centrally-administered cities establish emergency care networks and emergency transportation systems for accidents and injuries, health facilities at all levels are equipped according to the regulations of the Ministry of Health;
d) 30% of staff working on accident and injury prevention and control at all levels are trained and retrained in knowledge and skills for accident and injury prevention and control;
đ) Over 50% of provinces and centrally-administered cities implement safety models in the community.
3. Time frame and scope of implementation of the program:
a) Implementation time: three years, from 2008 to 2010.
b) Scope of implementation nationwide.
4. Content of activities:
The Action Program to prevent and control accidents and injuries in the community until 2010 includes five main contents as follows:
a) Organize information, education, and communication activities to raise awareness among local authorities and the community about accident and injury prevention and control across 64 provinces and centrally-administered cities, including:
- Continuously carry out information, education, and communication activities on accident and injury prevention and control through mass media, posters, slogans, leaflets; focusing on direct communication through community communication volunteers; organizing and launching contests to understand accident and injury prevention and control;
- Integrate accident and injury prevention and control into health campaigns in the community such as healthy village culture, World Health Day on April 7, and national standards for community health, annual food safety month;
- Develop communication models on accident and injury prevention and control for family members and relatives of victims at healthcare facilities.
b) Establish a monitoring system for accidents and injuries including:
- Develop an overall plan to implement the accident and injury monitoring system in the health sector, prioritizing the construction and enhancement of monitoring unit capacity at the central level and by ecological regions during the period 2008-2010;
- Complete forms, software for recording accidents and injuries, data collection procedures from various sources;
- Collect mortality data due to accidents and injuries from the community; weekly and monthly traffic accident data; provide morbidity and mortality data for the medical statistics yearbook; monitor injuries at key hospitals;
- Provide equipment for data entry, storage, and transmission, and reporting on accidents and injuries for local and central statistical work;
- Popularize and gradually apply the results of accident and injury monitoring to planning, monitoring, and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions and programs for accident and injury prevention and control.
c) Establish a network and enhance the capacity for first aid and emergency care at all levels including:
- Develop and submit to the leadership of the Ministry for issuance of health standards for vehicle operators, equipment standards, and technical division standards for essential trauma care; supplement emergency equipment according to the technical division standards;
- Establish emergency stations and maps of emergency stations for road traffic accidents on major highways with reasonable distances between stations and according to regulations; develop and widely publicize lists of emergency locations for accidents and injuries; pilot different forms of emergency transport;
- Disseminate knowledge and train initial emergency care skills for healthcare workers and other relevant rescue and disaster response personnel and accident resolution personnel;
d) Enhance the capacity of staff working on accident and injury prevention and control at all levels including:
- Develop training content on accident and injury prevention and emergency care and integrate it into the training programs of universities, colleges, and secondary health schools;- Develop training and retraining plans for healthcare workers involved in accident and injury prevention and emergency care at all levels, focusing on training skills in accident and injury prevention and control communication, monitoring, statistics, reporting, pre-hospital emergency care, and essential trauma care at healthcare facilities;
đ) Implement safety models in the community:
- Continue to strengthen and improve the effectiveness of safe community building activities in provinces and centrally-administered cities that have implemented accident and injury prevention and control;
- Organize the implementation of safety models such as safe schools, safe families, child safety, safe tourism, safe road traffic, safe workplaces, and other appropriate safety models based on the economic and social conditions of different regions to gradually build safe communities in all provinces and centrally-administered cities;
- Organize recognition of communities meeting the safe community standards as prescribed by the Minister of Health.
- The organization shall recognize communities that meet the safe community standards as prescribed by the Minister of Health.
- Promote research on risk factors, evaluate the effectiveness of implemented safety solutions and models, and propose the application of global safety solutions in Vietnam; strengthen cooperation and exchange with countries that have experience in accident and injury prevention.
5. Source of funding for implementation
The program's implementation budget will be allocated from the annual health sector state budget according to the current classification levels and mobilized from domestic and foreign organizations and individuals in accordance with the law.
The total state budget allocated for the Program during the period of 2008-2010 was 50 billion VND, structured within the regular budget of the health sector.
Article 2Implementation Organization
1. The Preventive Medicine and Environment Department shall be responsible before the Minister of Health for organizing and implementing the program with responsibility:
a) Developing short-term and long-term plans for accident and injury prevention and control in the health sector; Directing, inspecting, supervising, and guiding localities in building plans, promoting accident and injury prevention and control, and building safe communities annually; Reviewing to amend, supplement, or issue new regulatory documents on accident and injury prevention and control;
b) Building forms, statistics, and reports on accident and injury situations at healthcare facilities as prescribed, directing improvements in recording, statistical reporting of cases of accidents and injuries, and deaths;
c) Building safety models for accident and injury prevention and control in the community;
d) International cooperation, mobilizing funds from international organizations, performing functions and tasks of the World Health Organization's Cooperation Center for Accident and Injury Prevention and Control and Safe Community Construction in Vietnam;
e) Coordinating with relevant units of the Ministry and other sectors in organizing and implementing accident and injury prevention and control activities and building safe communities.
2. The Medical Examination and Treatment Management Department shall be responsible:
a) Building and submitting for approval decisions on essential trauma care standards for healthcare facilities at all levels; health standards for motor vehicle drivers; mechanisms for conducting unscheduled and periodic health checks for motor vehicle drivers; regulations for establishing traffic accident emergency stations on national highways;
b) Directing provincial health departments, central hospitals, and hospitals under ministries and sectors to build emergency station networks; ensuring compliance with essential trauma care standards, timely emergency care for accident and injury cases; recording accident and injury cases at healthcare facilities; organizing first aid and accident and injury prevention and control training at hospitals;
c) Providing professional guidance on handling, emergency care, and transporting accident and injury victims in the community;
d) Cooperating with the Preventive Medicine and Environment Department in implementing pre-hospital trauma care activities.
3. The Planning and Finance Department shall be responsible:
a) Allocating the Program's budget according to the annual budget plan approved by the competent authority; Organizing reviews and submitting for leadership approval the implementation plan;
b) Coordinating with the Preventive Medicine and Environment Department in submitting for approval accident and injury report forms, exchanging, comparing, and providing data on accidents and injuries, traffic accidents, incorporating morbidity and mortality data due to accidents and injuries into annual reports.
4. The Science and Training Department shall be responsible:
a) Incorporating accident and injury prevention and control, first aid, and trauma care content into the training programs of secondary, college, and university medical schools;
b) Directing universities, colleges, and intermediate-level medical schools to develop training materials for medical students and health technicians at various levels on accident and injury prevention and emergency care; conducting research on injury risks, evaluating the effectiveness of preventive measures to apply nationwide.
5. The Drug Administration, Food Safety and Nutrition Department, and related Departments and Bureaus shall be responsible for coordinating with the Preventive Medicine and Environment Department in implementing accident and injury prevention and control activities in the community.
6. Central and regional institutes under the preventive medicine system shall be responsible:
a) Guiding and cooperating with health authorities to assess the implementation of accident and injury prevention and control activities and safe community construction;
b) Researching injury risks, evaluating the effectiveness of preventive measures to widely promote their application nationwide;
c) Providing professional guidance, developing training and promotional materials for accident and injury prevention and control and safe community construction.
7. The Health Education and Communication Center shall be responsible for developing integrated promotion programs for legal provisions on accident and injury prevention and control for health sector officials and in the community.
8. Provincial and municipal health departments and health departments under ministries and sectors shall be responsible for implementing accident and injury prevention and control programs at the local level and focusing on the following contents:
a) The Standing Committee of the Provincial Accident and Injury Prevention and Control Steering Committee, advising the Provincial People's Committee on developing activity plans and annual budget plans for accident and injury prevention and control and safe community construction;
b) Directing local health units to strengthen systems for collecting, reporting, and monitoring accidents and injuries; implementing promotional and training activities on accident and injury prevention and control and safe community construction;
c) Strengthening and completing primary healthcare networks; enhancing resources for accident and injury emergency systems;
d) Conducting regular health checks, organizing training sessions on knowledge and skills for accident and injury prevention, emergency care, including motor vehicle driver health check standards;
đ) Conducting inspections, supervision, and evaluations of local accident and injury prevention and control activities.
9. Responsibilities of People's Committees at all levels
a) Establish the Steering Committee for Accident and Injury Prevention, Safe Community Building at all levels with the participation of relevant departments.
b) Direct the development of the local Action Program for Accident and Injury Prevention, Safe Community Building; coordinate among departments at the local level to effectively implement accident and injury prevention activities and safe community building.
d) Allocate funds for the implementation of accident and injury prevention activities and safe community building at the local level.
Article 3. This Decision shall take effect fifteen days from the date of publication in the Official Gazette.
Article 4. The Heads of the Ministry's Office, Inspectorate, Preventive Health and Environment Department, Population and Family Planning General Department, Heads of Departments and Directorates under the Ministry of Health, Heads of units directly under the Ministry, Provincial Health Directors, Health Sector Heads and related units are responsible for implementing this Decision.