Implementing the plan of the infectiuos diseases control project in the Mekong-sub region (VIE0027), sponsored by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the Central Management Unit-Department of Preventive Medicine & Environmental Health (DPMEH) held a workshop on reviewing the project activities period 2006-2009.
Participants to the workshop included Nguyen Van Binh, M.D, Ph.D, Vice-Director of DPMEH, Head of Central Management Unit and specialists; heads and deputy heads of project management units from the institutes of malariology, parasitology and entomology; leaders and staff from the Pasteur Institutes and institutes of hygiene and epidemiology; heads and vice-heads from health departments/centres of preventive medicine of 14 cities/ provinces under the project coverage.
The Contagious Diseases Control Project in the Mekong sub-region has been officially developed since 2006, aimed at reducing the morbidity and motality of common infectious diseases, controlling and preventing pandemics from occuring, reducing the disease burden on people in the Mekong sub-region; timely controlling the outbreaks which are likely to pose considerable impacts on regional economy and health; extending the scopes of prevention and control of contagious diseases for the high-risk communities, especially women and children living at the border areas; heightening awareness, improving policies, standardisations and cooperations among countries so as to strengthen contagious diseases control activities, including HIV/AIDS.
On behalf of the Central Management Unit, Dr. Binh presented report of the project activities period 2006-2009 as follows: the project consolidated one central management unit and 20 project management units from bureaus/institutes, cities/provinces for activities implementation; the total planned ADB budget for 4 years was USD 12,850,000, including the planned technical activities expenditure of USD 6,276,214.05 (48.8%), the planned tender budget of USD 5,287,754.95 (41.1%) and the project management fund of USD 1,286,031 (10.1%). Within 4 years, aside from the budget support for building normative acts, the project organised 16 manoeuvres for human influenza pandemic control in 16 cities/provinces; set up and developed the pilot model of infectious diseases such as paradigm of community-based dengue fever control, Japanese encephalitis active control, soil-transmitted helminthiasis control and IMCI programme; held 1182/1200 planned training courses/workshops; built 26 guiding documents used for training courses/workshops within the scope of the project. The provinces under the project coverage finished the implementation of tender activities in compliance with the approved plans; however, in some provinces, the planned activities haven't been implemeted yet, making a considerable amount of budget unutilised.
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Participants to the workshop |
The representatives from the institutes and provinces reported on the activities of the project, reflecting difficulties and proposing solutions for budget disbursement. Dr.Binh summed up the workshop and required concerned units to promptly carry out remaining activities so that the project period 2006-2009 could be liquidated.