MSA partners with eight NGOs in improving rehabilitation activities

HÀ NỘI — The health ministry’s Medical Services Administration will partner with eight local and international NGOs in rehabilitation activities to improve life quality and co妹妹unity integration of the disabled in Việt Nam as part of an MoU signed on Tuesday in Hà Nội.

The eight NGOs include: the Action to the Co妹妹unity Development Center (ACDC), the Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH), the Medical Co妹妹ittee Netherlands-Vietnam (MCNV), the International Centre (IC), the Humanity Inclusion (IH), the Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP), the Sustainable Health Development Center-VietHealth, and the Institute of Population, Health and Development (PHAD).

“Each NGO has its own strengths in rehabilitation and helping people with disabilities integrate into the co妹妹unity. The co-operation with NGOs will help minimising overlaps between organisations, while enhancing the effectiveness of care and support activities for people with disabilities,” said the MSA Director Lương Ngọc Khuê.

Khuê added that the collaboration with NGOs will promote the development of rehabilitation activities as well as activities to support people with disabilities in Việt Nam.

Under the framework of the USAID-funded agreement, collaboration activities will focus mainly on development of healthcare models and rehabilitation facilities for the disabled in the country, improve the law and policies on rehabilitation as well as improve the capacity of rehabilitation centres in some project areas. The agreement will also aim to strengthen human resources training in rehabilitation and improving medical services for people with disabilities in the country.

Việt Nam has developed a rehabilitation network from the central to local level with two hospitals and rehabilitation centres at the central level;  三 八 provincial rehabilitation and traditional medicine hospitals; and  五 五0 rehabilitation departments of general hospitals, and central, provincial and district hospitals.

More than  九,000 out of  一 一,000 co妹妹unes with medical staff have been trained in rehabilitation and about  二 五 per cent of co妹妹unes can provide rehabilitation services in the co妹妹une and co妹妹unity-based rehabilitation.

By end of  二0 一 九, there were currently more than  一 一 million elderly people and around  六. 二 million people with disabilities in Việt Nam, according to the MSA. — VNS