Decree No. 95/2022/NĐ-CP stipulates the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Health

DECREE

REGULATIONS ON THE FUNCTIONS, TASKS, POWERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH

Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated June 19, 2015; the Law Amending and Supplementing Certain Provisions of the Law on Organization of the Government and the Law on Organization of Local Administration dated November 22, 2019;

BASED ON Decree No. 123/2016/ND-CP dated September 1, 2016 of the Government stipulating the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of ministries and ministerial-level agencies; Decree No. 101/2020/ND-CP dated August 28, 2020 of the Government amending and supplementing certain articles of Decree No. 123/2016/ND-CP dated September 1, 2016 of the Government stipulating the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of ministries and ministerial-level agencies;

At the proposal of the Minister of Health;

The Government promulgates this Decree to regulate the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Health.

Article 1. Position and Functions

The Ministry of Health is an agency of the Government, performing state management functions in the field of health care, including areas such as preventive healthcare; diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation; medical and forensic examination; traditional medicine and pharmacy; medical equipment; pharmaceuticals and cosmetics; food safety; health insurance; population and reproductive health; state management of public services within the scope of the Ministry's state management.

b) Draft five-year and annual socio-economic development plans for the province; major economic and social balances for the province; draft five-year and annual plans, programs, projects, measures to organize and implement tasks related to socio-economic development, finance-budget, planning-investment, and other tasks within the scope of state management of the Department of Finance as prescribed by law;

The Ministry of Health performs tasks and powers as prescribed in Decree No. 123/2016/ND-CP dated September 1, 2016 of the Government stipulating the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of ministries and ministerial-level agencies; Decree No. 101/2020/ND-CP dated August 28, 2020 of the Government amending and supplementing certain articles of Decree No. 123/2016/ND-CP dated September 1, 2016 of the Government, and the following specific tasks and powers:

1. Submit to the Government draft laws, draft resolutions of the National Assembly, draft ordinances, draft resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, and draft decrees of the Government according to the annual legislative program of the Ministry that has been approved, and projects and programs assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister; submit to the Government and the Prime Minister strategies, plans, and important national programs, projects, and works on health and population under the Ministry’s state management.

2. Submit to the Prime Minister draft decisions, directives, and other documents concerning industries and fields under the Ministry’s state management or as assigned.

3. Issue circulars, decisions, directives, and other documents concerning state management over industries and fields under the Ministry’s state management.

4. Direct, guide, and organize the implementation of legal regulations, strategies, plans, national target programs, important national programs, projects, and works after approval; inspect, review, systematize, disseminate, educate, and monitor the enforcement of laws in fields under the Ministry’s state management.

5. On preventive healthcare:

a) Develop and issue, or submit to competent authorities for issuance, specialized regulations, national standards, national technical regulations, and economic-technical norms in the following areas: surveillance, prevention, and control of infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, non-communicable diseases, occupational diseases, injuries; vaccination; biosafety in medical laboratories; border quarantine; environmental health, occupational hygiene, school health; community nutrition; tobacco harm reduction; alcohol and beer harm reduction; quality of clean water for domestic use; management of chemicals and insecticides, disinfectants used in household and medical fields;

b) Issue, amend, and supplement lists of notifiable diseases, lists of diseases requiring mandatory vaccination and medical products, and organize the implementation of mandatory vaccination and medical product administration for specified groups as provided by law;

c) Take the lead and coordinate with relevant ministries and sectors to issue, amend, and supplement health standards for different types of jobs, lists of diseases requiring long-term treatment and entitled to sickness benefits, and lists of occupational diseases entitled to occupational disease benefits in Vietnam;

d) Organize the monitoring of infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, diseases of unknown origin, risk factors affecting health, and other public health issues; early detection of infectious diseases causing epidemics and organizing the declaration of epidemics and the end of epidemics as prescribed by law; take the lead and coordinate with related agencies to provide accurate and timely information about infectious diseases;

đ) Submit to competent authorities for decision-making or decide within their authority on the organization and implementation of special measures to prevent and control epidemics; inspect, urge, and support units and localities in organizing and implementing epidemic prevention and control measures; develop and implement emergency response plans for public health situations;

e) Guide and organize the implementation of activities related to border health quarantine at ports of entry; promptly inform and report on dangerous infectious diseases and other public health issues worldwide to proactively prevent and control them;

g) Manage, guide, and organize the implementation of workplace environmental monitoring activities at workplaces, direct environmental monitoring at industrial parks and clusters with high risks of occupational diseases; assess, control, and manage harmful factors in workplaces; build databases on workplace environmental monitoring activities, announce organizations qualified to conduct workplace environmental monitoring, and suspend operations of unqualified organizations as prescribed by law;

h) Guide, within their authority, the management of workplace hygiene, health examinations of workers, occupational disease detection, and worker health management at workplaces; take the lead in managing the issuance of certificates for professional qualifications in occupational health, first aid training at workplaces as prescribed by law;

i) Direct and guide the implementation of primary health care activities for the people in communities;

k) Appraise, issue new, reissue, and revoke certificates for testing facilities meeting biosafety level III and IV standards, except those under the purview of the Ministry of Defense.

l) Issuing, reissuing, supplementing, extending, suspending, revoking registration numbers for circulation, import permits, certificates of free circulation for chemicals, insecticides, bactericides used in household and medical fields; issuing receipt forms for declaration of conditions for conducting testing, chemical trials, insecticide and bactericide trials used in household and medical fields; issuing certificates confirming advertising contents for chemicals, insecticides, and bactericides used in household and medical fields in accordance with the provisions of the law;

m) Organizing the issuance, reissuance, adjustment, revocation of certificates of qualification to conduct confirmatory tests for HIV positive cases and suspending activities of confirmatory tests for HIV positive cases at healthcare facilities under the Ministry of Health and other ministries and sectors;

n) Designating organizations to certify compliance for tobacco products; issuing, suspending, revoking, reissuing certificates of acceptance of declarations of compliance for tobacco products in accordance with the provisions of the law;

o) Managing and guiding the implementation of treatment activities for drug addiction and smoking cessation throughout the country;

p) Directing, guiding, inspecting, and auditing the implementation of professional regulations, national technical standards in the field of preventive health care throughout the country;

q) Directing, guiding the organization to implement and inspect, evaluate the implementation of activities to prevent and control HIV/AIDS throughout the country.

6. On medical examination, treatment, rehabilitation, medical examination, forensic medical examination, forensic psychiatric examination:

a) Drafting and promulgating, or submitting to competent authorities for promulgation, specialized regulations, national standards, national technical standards, economic-technical norms, quality criteria in the fields of diagnosis and treatment, blood safety, nursing, rehabilitation, clinical nutrition, infection control; plastic surgery; organ and tissue donation and transplantation; medical examination, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry in accordance with the provisions of the law;

b) Approving the planning of specialized healthcare facility systems; detailing the division of professional technical levels for healthcare facilities according to each level;

c) Managing the issuance, reissuance, revocation of practice licenses and operating permits in the field of diagnosis and treatment; organizing the implementation of the first issuance, adjustment, reissuance, and revocation of practice licenses for diagnosis and treatment for personnel working at healthcare facilities under the Ministry of Health, personnel working at healthcare facilities under other ministries (excluding those under the Ministry of National Defense), foreign nationals practicing diagnosis and treatment in Vietnam; first issuance, adjustment, reissuance, and revocation of operating permits for healthcare facilities under the Ministry of Health, private hospitals, or hospitals under other ministries (excluding those under the Ministry of National Defense) in accordance with the provisions of the law;

d) Reviewing and approving healthcare facilities to apply new techniques and methods for the first time in Vietnam in accordance with the provisions of the law;

e) Issue certificates confirming the content of advertising for medical examination and treatment activities within its authority according to the provisions of the law;

e) Taking the lead and coordinating with relevant ministries and sectors to manage state affairs regarding the pricing of diagnosis and treatment services in accordance with the provisions of the law;

g) Directing, guiding, inspecting, and auditing the implementation of legal normative documents, professional regulations, national standards, national technical standards in the fields of diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation, plastic surgery, medical examination, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry;

7. On traditional medicine:

a) Drafting and promulgating, or submitting to competent authorities for promulgation, specialized regulations, national standards, national technical standards in the field of traditional medicine;

b) Drafting and submitting to competent authorities for promulgation mechanisms and policies to implement the inheritance, preservation, development, modernization of traditional medicine, and the integration of traditional medicine with modern medicine;

c) Drafting and promulgating lists of rare, precious, endemic medicinal plant species that need to be controlled; developing medicinal plant cultivation areas and implementing measures to preserve, exploit, and use medicinal plants sustainably and reasonably;

d) Issuing, adjusting, reissuing, and revoking practice licenses for diagnosis and treatment using traditional medicine for personnel working at healthcare facilities under the Ministry of Health, personnel working at healthcare facilities under other ministries (excluding those under the Ministry of National Defense), foreign nationals practicing traditional medicine diagnosis and treatment in Vietnam; first issuance, adjustment, reissuance, and revocation of operating permits for healthcare facilities using traditional medicine under the Ministry of Health, private traditional medicine hospitals, or traditional medicine hospitals under other ministries (excluding those under the Ministry of National Defense) in accordance with the provisions of the law;

đ) Issuing, extending, changing, supplementing, and revoking registration numbers for circulation of medicinal plants and traditional medicines in accordance with the provisions of the law; issuing, reissuing, adjusting contents, and revoking certificates of qualification to operate medicinal plants and traditional medicines; certificates of good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for medicinal plants in accordance with the provisions of the law;

e) Issuing, reissuing certificates confirming advertising contents for traditional medicine diagnosis and treatment activities; certificates confirming information and advertising contents for traditional medicines and adjusting information and advertising contents for traditional medicines in accordance with the provisions of the law;

g) Directing, guiding, inspecting, and auditing the implementation of mechanisms and policies, legal normative documents, professional regulations, national technical standards on traditional medicine, and the integration of traditional medicine with modern medicine;

8. On medical equipment and healthcare infrastructure:

a) Drafting and submitting to competent authorities for promulgation or promulgating directly national standards, national technical standards, strategies, policies, plans on medical equipment.

b) Issue detailed regulations guiding standards and usage quotas for specialized machinery and equipment serving healthcare activities; issue a list of medical devices that must be inspected and inspection procedures for each type of medical device on the list;

c) Issue new, suspend, or revoke circulation numbers for medical devices; issue new or revoke certificates of free circulation for medical devices; issue and publicize recall notices for classified medical devices; issue import permits for medical devices; publicize information and registration files for raw materials used to produce medical devices and foreign substances containing narcotics and precursors;

d) Publicize information and registration files for entities qualified to provide technical consulting services for medical devices; issue new, reissue, supplement, or revoke certificates of registration for medical device inspection activities within the scope of management as prescribed by law;

đ) Guide and organize the public disclosure on the Ministry of Health's online portal of information including: prices of medical devices declared by enterprises; winning bid prices for medical device procurement at state-owned healthcare facilities nationwide; lists of medical devices whose circulation numbers have been revoked;

e) Take the lead and coordinate with relevant agencies to direct, guide, inspect, and audit the implementation of legal regulatory documents, national standards, and national technical regulations in the field of medical devices;

g) Take the lead and coordinate with relevant agencies to develop and issue technical regulations and design standards for healthcare facilities; design standards for specialized departments within healthcare facilities;

9. Regarding pharmaceuticals and cosmetics:

a) Develop and issue, or submit to competent authorities for issuance, specialized regulations and national technical standards for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics; national standards for drugs; issue and update the Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia and National Drug Formulary;

b) Issue lists of drugs and drug substances prohibited from use in certain industries and fields; lists of drugs and raw materials for drugs requiring special control; rare drugs; essential drugs; over-the-counter drugs; domestically produced drugs meeting treatment requirements, pricing, and supply capacity; tendered drugs; centrally tendered drugs; drugs subject to price negotiation;

c) Issue, renew, change, supplement, and revoke: drug registration certificates and raw material registration certificates; export and import permits for drugs and raw materials, direct contact drug packaging; issue product certification for pharmaceutical businesses according to the law. Approve orders for purchasing narcotic drugs, psychotropic drugs, precursor drugs, raw materials that are narcotic substances, psychotropic substances, and precursors used as drugs;

d) Issue, reissue, amend contents, and revoke: pharmacy practice certificates through examinations; certificates of qualification for pharmaceutical business operations for drug production facilities, raw material production facilities, drug export and import facilities, raw material export and import facilities, drug storage service facilities, raw material storage service facilities, drug testing service facilities, raw material testing service facilities, clinical drug trial service facilities, biological equivalent drug testing service facilities; certificates of compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for drugs and raw materials, direct contact drug packaging, Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) for drugs and raw materials, Good Storage Practices (GSP) for drugs and raw materials, Good Clinical Practices (GCP) for clinical drug trials according to the law; publish lists of foreign production and trading facilities registered to supply drugs and raw materials to Vietnam; evaluate compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices for drugs and raw materials of foreign production facilities when registering for circulation in Vietnam according to the law;

đ) Issue, revoke acceptance numbers for imported cosmetic product declarations; approve changes to previously published contents on cosmetic product declaration forms; issue, reissue, amend, and revoke certificates of compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices for cosmetics (CGMP) according to the law;

e) Manage the quality of drugs, raw materials for drugs, and cosmetics; decide on suspending circulation and recalling drugs, raw materials for drugs, and cosmetics according to the law; coordinate with relevant agencies to prevent and combat the production and circulation of counterfeit, substandard, and untraceable origin drugs, raw materials for drugs, and cosmetics, and prevent and combat smuggling of such products according to the law;

g) Organize a drug information system and pharmacovigilance; issue, reissue, amend contents of drug information confirmation certificates; drug advertising content confirmation certificates according to the law;

h) Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and other ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and provincial people's committees to manage drug prices and announce drug prices according to the law;

i) Guide the implementation of drug tenders for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment using state budget funds, health insurance funds, and other lawful revenues in healthcare facilities; organize centralized drug purchases at the national level and take the lead in negotiating drug prices according to the law;

k) Direct, guide, organize the implementation, and inspect rational, safe, and effective drug use;

l) Direct, guide the organization of implementation, and inspect and audit the implementation of laws and regulations in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic sectors;

10. Regarding food safety:

a) Chair the development and issuance of national technical standards for food products within the assigned management area; issue national technical standards or regulations on safety limits for product groups upon the proposal of specialized management ministries; issue a list of food additives permitted for use.

b) Develop and submit to competent authorities for issuance regulations on conditions ensuring food safety for production and business establishments: health foods, natural mineral water, bottled drinking water, instant ice, food fortifiers, food additives, flavorings, food processing aids, utensils, packaging materials that come into direct contact with food; collective dining kitchens, hotels' restaurants, resort areas, restaurants, catering service businesses, and street food vendors.

c) Chair the implementation of information dissemination, communication, knowledge promotion, and legal education on food safety within the Ministry's jurisdiction.

d) Chair and coordinate with relevant ministries and sectors to develop a food safety incident warning system; specify the reporting procedures for food safety incidents; organize the monitoring, risk analysis, prevention, investigation, and coordinated efforts to prevent and control food poisoning and address food safety incidents within the Ministry's jurisdiction.

đ) Manage food safety throughout the production, initial processing, manufacturing, storage, transportation, export, import, and sale of food products: food additives, food processing aids, bottled drinking water, natural mineral water, instant ice, food fortifiers, health foods, and other food products as prescribed by law; manage food safety for utensils, packaging materials, and containers that come into direct contact with food during production, processing, and sale within the assigned management area.

e) Organize the receipt and management of registration files, issue certificates of acceptance for product declarations for health foods, new food additive mixtures with new functions, food additives not included in the list of permitted food additives or not used according to the specified objects as defined by the Ministry of Health; issue advertising content confirmation certificates for health foods; issue certificates of free circulation for food products within the assigned management area; issue health certificates and other certificates for exported food products when organizations or individuals request them in accordance with the law.

g) Issue certificates of food safety compliance for production and business establishments: new food additive mixtures with new functions, food additives not listed in the permitted food additive list or not used according to the specified objects as defined by the Ministry of Health; issue and reissue certificates of food safety compliance for health food production facilities meeting Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements as stipulated by law.

h) Designate food testing laboratories serving state management, and testing verification laboratories within the assigned management scope; designate arbitration testing laboratories and make final conclusions when there are discrepancies in testing results from food testing laboratories both inside and outside the healthcare sector.

i) Designate state inspection agencies for imported food safety within the Ministry's jurisdiction for products under its management.

k) Direct, guide the organization of implementation, inspect, and audit the enforcement of regulatory legal documents, national standards, and national technical standards on food safety within the Ministry's state management jurisdiction.

l) Aggregate, statistically analyze, and report periodically and urgently on food safety management based on supervision and aggregation of reports from sectoral and local management agencies;

11. Regarding population and reproductive health:

a) Develop and submit to competent authorities for issuance policies on population including: population size, population structure, population quality.

b) Develop and issue or submit to competent authorities for issuance national standards on population, family planning, reproductive health, and elderly health; establish and issue a system of indicators and benchmarks on population, reproductive health, and elderly health; specify professional standards and national technical standards on population services, family planning, reproductive health care services, and elderly health care services in communities.

c) Decide to permit the provision of advisory services for establishments practicing advisory services on population, family planning, and community elderly health care in accordance with the law.

d) Review and decide to recognize medical facilities authorized to perform in vitro fertilization techniques and surrogacy for humanitarian purposes; decide to permit medical facilities to perform gender determination procedures.

đ) Direct, guide the organization of implementation and inspect the enforcement of regulatory legal documents, professional standards, national technical standards, policies, programs, and projects on population, family planning, reproductive health care, and elderly health care in communities.

12. Regarding health insurance:

a) Develop and issue or submit to competent authorities for issuance legal regulatory documents, mechanisms, and policies on health insurance.

b) Chair and coordinate with relevant ministries and sectors to issue lists and reimbursement rates and conditions for medicines, chemicals, medical supplies, and medical technical services within the scope of benefits for health insurance participants.

c) Issue basic packages of medical services covered by the health insurance fund.

d) Issue professional technical regulations, examination and treatment procedures, and referral processes related to health insurance examination and treatment.

đ) Chair and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to issue unified prices for health insurance examination and treatment services across hospitals of the same level nationwide.

e) Develop and submit to competent authorities for issuance solutions to ensure balance in the health insurance fund.

g) Direct, guide the organization of implementation, and inspect medical facilities, organizations, and individuals in their enforcement of laws on health insurance.

13. Regarding environmental protection in healthcare activities:

a) Establish and issue regulations on the management of medical waste, environmental protection within the premises of healthcare facilities, and hygiene in burial and cremation for cases of death due to dangerous epidemics;

b) Direct and guide the implementation of content to control the impact of environmental pollution on human health: determine and announce the limits of pollutants in the human body that pose risks to human health; identify, assess, warn, monitor, and detect symptoms, causes of diseases, and health issues directly related to pollutants; measures to protect human health from the impacts of climate change, environmental pollution, and adverse environmental factors; manage, statistics, share, and publish information on diseases related to pollutants; evaluate costs and economic losses caused by diseases and health issues related to environmental pollution; develop, guide, and implement measures to monitor and prevent diseases and health issues caused by pollutants; manage, share, exchange, and publish information on pollutants affecting human health;

c) Direct and guide the implementation of the assessment of the scope, subjects, and degree of impact of environmental incidents on human health; prevention and response to environmental incidents caused by dangerous infectious diseases; implement preventive measures to limit the impact of environmental incidents on human health;

d) Direct and guide the implementation and inspect the enforcement of legal provisions on the classification, collection, storage, management of medical waste and other types of waste, environmental protection within the premises of healthcare facilities, and hygiene in burial and cremation for cases of death due to dangerous epidemics as prescribed by law;

14. On the management of specialized health, pharmaceutical, and population staff:

a) Develop, issue, amend, and supplement job title standards for specialized health, pharmaceutical, and population staff after reaching consensus with the Ministry of Home Affairs;

b) Guide the positions of leadership and management roles and job positions for specialized health, pharmaceutical, and population staff, the structure of staff according to job titles, and the staffing levels in public health institutions after reaching consensus with the Ministry of Home Affairs;

c) Take the lead and coordinate with relevant agencies to develop, amend, and supplement the issuance of specific regulations on standards, conditions for promotion examinations, and the content, form, and determination of successful candidates in promotion examinations for specialized health, pharmaceutical, and population staff after reaching consensus with the Ministry of Home Affairs; organize promotion examinations for specialized health, pharmaceutical, and population staff in accordance with the law;

d) Take the lead and coordinate with relevant agencies to develop and submit to competent authorities for issuance and amendment of policies and benefits for specialized health, pharmaceutical, and population staff;

đ) Specify details regarding the content, program, form, and duration of training for specialized health, pharmaceutical, and population staff based on their job title standards, and guide and organize the implementation thereof;

15. On the training of healthcare personnel:

a) Develop and issue, or submit to competent authorities for issuance, strategies and plans for training healthcare personnel and special mechanisms and policies in training healthcare personnel, and guide the implementation thereof;

b) Develop and issue standards for professional competence in healthcare as a basis for developing and improving training program standards and graduation criteria for healthcare personnel training at various levels; coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs to establish training program standards and graduation criteria for each field and level of healthcare personnel training;

c) Develop and issue quality assurance conditions and graduation criteria for specialized healthcare training and continuous training for healthcare personnel;

d) Manage specialized healthcare training and continuous training for healthcare personnel in accordance with the law;

đ) Guide, inspect, and evaluate, within authority, the implementation of legal provisions in training healthcare personnel; inspect and review compliance with requirements in practical training organization for educational practice bases in healthcare education;

e) Specify and guide the implementation of examinations to assess eligibility for professional practice certificates in the healthcare sector in accordance with the law;

16. On science and technology in the healthcare sector:

a) Develop and submit to competent authorities for issuance mechanisms, policies, strategies, and plans for scientific research, technological development, and innovation in fields under the Ministry of Health's jurisdiction;

b) Manage, guide, and organize the implementation of human biological research;

c) Guide and inspect the implementation of legal provisions in organizing scientific and technological tasks; transfer of technology and dissemination and application of scientific research results and technological development in fields under the Ministry of Health's jurisdiction; manage and utilize scientific and technological resources assigned;

d) Implement laws on intellectual property rights and innovative activities under the Ministry of Health's administrative management;

đ) Manage the establishment and issuance of national technical standards in the healthcare sector in accordance with the law; guide, monitor, and manage the dissemination and application of national standards and technical standards in the healthcare sector;

e) Implement agreements on technical barriers to trade (TBT) in the healthcare sector;

17. On information technology:

a) Develop and issue, or submit to competent authorities for issuance, strategies and plans for the application and development of information technology, information security, and digital transformation in the healthcare sector;

b) Develop, issue, or submit to competent authorities for issuance specialized regulations, technical procedures, national standards, and national technical norms on the application, development of information technology, digital transformation in the healthcare sector and ensuring cyber security and information safety in the healthcare sector on online platforms;

c) Develop, maintain, update, and organize the implementation of the Ministry of Health's Electronic Government Architecture towards a Digital Government; develop, manage, maintain, update, ensure the security of healthcare information systems and the national health database, various healthcare information systems; manage, connect, and share digital healthcare data in accordance with the law;

d) Direct, guide the organization to implement and inspect the implementation of strategies, plans, regulations, and technical procedures on the application, development of information technology, artificial intelligence application, digital transformation in the healthcare sector, ensuring cybersecurity and the security of healthcare information systems nationwide in accordance with the law;

18. Develop programs and plans and direct, guide the organization to implement and inspect the implementation of communication and health education work and the provision of information on healthcare activities;

19. Manage state services within the scope of the Ministry's management according to the law; develop and submit to competent authorities for issuance or issue within their authority mechanisms and policies for providing public service activities in the healthcare sector; issue economic and technical norms applicable in healthcare public service sectors managed by the State; set quality criteria and standards for healthcare public services; supervision, evaluation, and certification mechanisms for the quality of healthcare public services and the effectiveness of operations of public healthcare institutions;

20. Take the lead and coordinate with relevant agencies in preventing, rescuing, and treating victims in natural disasters and catastrophes;

21. Develop plans and organize the implementation of national reserves of medicines, chemicals, medical equipment, and means to prevent and control diseases, natural disasters, and catastrophes according to the national reserve list decided by the Government and in accordance with the law;

22. Manage associations and non-governmental organizations operating in the scope of the Ministry's management according to the law;

23. Develop and direct the implementation of the Ministry of Health's administrative reform plan according to the goals and content of the Government's overall administrative reform program;

24. Manage organizational structure, civil servant quota, number of staff members, job positions, civil servant grade structure, staff member structure by occupational title; decide on rotation, transfer, appointment, dismissal, resignation, removal, assignment, commendation, disciplinary action, termination of employment, retirement; implement salary systems and incentive policies; organize training and capacity building for cadres, civil servants, staff members, and workers under the Ministry's management according to the law;

25. Implement international cooperation in areas within the scope of the Ministry's management according to the law;

26. Manage finances, assets assigned, and organize the implementation of allocated budgets according to the law; manage the Tobacco Control Fund according to the law;

27. Inspect and check the implementation of legal provisions and resolve complaints, reports, and recommendations related to areas within the Ministry's management; implement anti-corruption measures and handle violations of laws in areas within the scope of the Ministry's management according to the law;

28. Develop and issue statistical indicators and reporting systems for the healthcare sector according to the law; organize the collection, synthesis, analysis, management, and storage of healthcare statistical information; build the national healthcare database;

29. Perform other tasks and powers delegated by the Government and Prime Minister and as stipulated by the law;

2. Department of Maternal and Child Health;

Article 3. Organizational Structure

1. The Health Insurance Department.

3. Department of Cadre and Civil Service Management;

5. Legal Affairs Department;

4. Division of Planning and Finance.

7. Ministry Office;

6. Department of International Cooperation.

8. Inspectorate;

9. Science, Technology, and Training Bureau;

10. Preventive Medicine Bureau;

11. HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Bureau;

12. Environmental Health Management Bureau;

13. Medical Examination and Treatment Management Bureau;

14. Traditional Medicine Bureau;

15. Drug Administration Bureau;

16. Food Safety Bureau;

17. Infrastructure and Medical Equipment Bureau;

18. Population Bureau;

19. Institute of Strategy and Policy on Health;

20. National Health Information Center;

21. Health and Life Newspaper;

The organizations specified from Clause 1 to Clause 18 of this Article assist the Minister in performing state management functions; the organizations specified from Clause 19 to Clause 21 of this Article are subordinate public service units serving the Ministry of Health's state management functions;

The Minister of Health shall submit to the Prime Minister for issuance the list of other subordinate public service units of the Ministry of Health;

The Planning and Finance Department has five divisions.

The Minister of Health shall specify the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structures of the organizations under the Ministry;

This Decree takes effect from November 15, 2022;

Article 4. Effective date

This Decree replaces Decree No. 75/2017/NĐ-CP dated June 20, 2017 of the Government on the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structures of the Ministry of Health;

The Population General Bureau, Department of Medical Equipment and Health Construction, Information Technology Bureau, and Pharmaceutical Journal continue to perform their functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structures according to current regulations until the Minister of Health decides on the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structures of the Population Bureau, Infrastructure and Medical Equipment Bureau, and National Health Information Center under the Ministry of Health;

Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government agencies, Chairpersons of provincial and centrally-administered city People's Committees are responsible for implementing this Decree

Article 5. Responsibilities for Implementation

The Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Heads of government agencies, Chairpersons of provincial People's Committees under the direct control of the central government shall be responsible for implementing this Decree