7th Five-Year Health Sector Development Plan 2011-2015.

The 7th Five-Year Health Sector Development Plan 2011-2015 establishes that by 2015, all programmes in health sector have to make every effort to fulfill their own task to make the reaching of MDGs possible. To this aim, it is necessary to: Pursue the strong promotion of IEC and hygiene-prevention to all community in a routine manner; Implement efficient prevention-surveillance and communicable disease control; education on awareness of good nutrition and promote physical exercise for health; Implement fee and fee exemption policy for all poor and under served targets, focusing on free delivery and care for children under five. Expand health care service network down to all rural and out of remote mountainous areas; Maintain the development of model healthy village; Ensure villages have their health centre with medicine and health service staffs. Improve the modernization and quality of health service in hospitals by focusing on the improvement of knowledge, special technical skill, including attitude of staff and nurse during their service. Research on traditional medicine, prompt to do the plantation, excavation, production, export and use of drug in health promotion and cure disease based on scientific principle. Improve food and drug laws and management system and develop health facilities at all levels. Pursue to promote and support private sector in the development of modern private hospitals to create a more choice for user and more satisfaction.
The Plan establishes the following steps for improving the nutrition sector: Concentrate to resolve nutrient elements insufficiency in some groups of people, especially in underserved group of people and reproductive age women by focusing on pregnant, post delivered and breast-feeding women, children under 2 and under 5 years old and children at age to school. Improve food consumption in every day’s life, prevent and decrease food born disease and food born vector control. Improve health services quality focusing on diminishing the rate of mother and child mortality by strongly exploring domestic potential and using existing capacity (human resources, infrastructures, science and technology capacity, equipment and drug etc.), by dispatching quality services to regional, mountainous and remote areas using Primary Health Care approach as a basis of developing Model Healthy Villages within the framework of the village development and development of strategic groups of villages. This is the spearhead for poverty and superstition eradication and improvement of the population quality of life by focusing especially on nutrition activity.
In addition, it aims at enhancing the perception on gender equality in offices, at home and in society by creating condition to promote more women into important decision maker’s posts on the basis of focusing on the women formation and in-service training system, on the management and employment of female staffs, on the women assignment and provide them with responsibility to progressively develop and make them capable to perform a long side with men in the society.
The Plan's preparedness for disasters aims to: Prepare for all type of disasters resulting from natural disaster due to climate change caused by environment destruction that induces climate warming, flooding, drought, forest fire, earth quake, land slide, typhoon and etc. Health sector is required to, at very earlier stage, coordinate with other sectors to take action and making health facility appropriately designed. To improve the environment sanitation of population in urban and rural areas; Encourage to construct more water system and implement hygiene in poor, out of remote and under served areas to increase quantitatively and qualitatively access. Meantime, increase the community‘s ownership in management, and participation in maintenance the water supply system and hygiene since the source of disease.