After more than a year of operating under the two-tier local government model, the health sectors of Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City have achieved positive transformations — ranging from organisational restructuring and management to the enhancement of healthcare service quality. These efforts have better met the public’s health protection and care needs, advancing an equitable, modern, and sustainable healthcare system.

The documents of the 14th National Party Congress clearly set out the requirement to effectively implement the National Target Programme on Healthcare, Population and Development, ensuring that all citizens have access to quality primary healthcare services and receive free health check-ups at least once a year.

Party General Secretary To Lam has recently signed the Politburo’s Resolution No.72-NQ/TW, setting out groundbreaking measures to strengthen the protection, care, and improvement of the people’s health.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has reiterated Vietnam's consistent stance that protecting the living environment and people's health is always the top goal, without sacrificing the environment for economic growth, in response to the information that some US congressmen sent a letter of protest to the Taiwanese (China) authorities saying Vietnam's handling of the Formosa case was not satisfactory.