People have access to better quality medical services right at their place of residence, while grassroots-level healthcare has more conditions to improve professional capacity, meeting on-site examination and treatment needs better.

After days of attached and emotional work, recently, the Pu Nhi commune Health Station bid farewell to doctors and nurses reinforced from the upper level to support professional work for grassroots-level healthcare. Although the attachment time was not long, the companionship of the team of provincial level medical staff and health centers left many positive marks, contributing to adding motivation and consolidating professional capacity for the collective of commune health station staff in primary healthcare work for local people.

Deputy Head of the Pu Nhi commune Health Station Trương Thị Lan Anh said that recently, the unit was reinforced with 1 staff member from the provincial Center for Disease Control and 2 doctors and nurses from the Điện Biên Đông Health Center to support professional work. The support from upper-level comrades was very timely and practical, helping the station solve many difficulties in work. Besides directly participating in examination and treatment, reinforced doctors and nurses also supported in many other important fields.

Specifically, staff of the provincial Center for Disease Control helped advise on building documents, professional guidance, reviewing the book system, helping the station step by step standardize operation processes. Meanwhile, specialist doctors from the health center directly examined and treated people, especially children, thereby contributing to reducing overload and improving the quality of medical services at the grassroots level.

After a period of participating in supporting grassroots-level healthcare, in late December 2025, the Tuần Giáo Health Center conducted a preliminary review of phase 1 of implementing the plan for fixed-term rotation of staff to provide professional support for commune health stations in the area. In this phase, the Tuần Giáo Health Center mobilized doctors and nurses with solid skills from clinical departments directly to work in communes that still face many difficulties and lack professional human resources.

Initial results show clear changes in grassroots-level healthcare activities. The rate of people coming for medical examination and treatment at commune health stations increased compared to the same period. Many initial emergency cases such as: Trauma due to accidents, bee stings, daily life accidents... were handled promptly right at the station.

Especially, technical transfer work under the motto “hands-on instruction” has brought practical effectiveness. The team of nurses at commune health stations step by step mastered the management process of non-communicable diseases as well as essential first aid and emergency techniques, improving proactiveness in handling common situations at the grassroots level.

Doctor Đoàn Văn Quý, Director of the Tuần Giáo Health Center assessed that the rotation of staff is not only implementing political tasks but also a key solution to step by step shorten the medical gap between regions. And we aim for the goal that every citizen, including those in remote and isolated villages and hamlets, can access the best healthcare services.

To strengthen support and improve commune level medical capacity within the framework of the Project “Strengthening 1,000 doctors to the grassroots level,” the provincial General Hospital deployed the first batch of seconded medical staff to difficult areas. Accordingly, 8 doctors of the hospital were mobilized to work at the Health Stations of communes: Mường Toong, Pú Nhung, Sín Chải and Nà Bủng.

Immediately after announcing the decision, the provincial General Hospital deployed specific tasks for doctors, ensuring professional activities are carried out synchronously and effectively. With solid expertise and high sense of responsibility, doctors quickly integrated into the working environment at the commune level, directly participating in medical examination, treatment and providing professional support for the local medical team.

As one of the doctors participating in professional reinforcement at the grassroots level in the first phase, after completing the secondment period, doctor Nguyễn Thế Dũng from the provincial General Hospital shared that grassroots-level healthcare is the first and extremely important “shield.” Our presence is not only to examine patients but also to help frontline brothers be more confident in handling “golden hour” emergency situations, thereby significantly minimizing severe complications for patients before transfer.

Reality from the fixed-term staff rotation phase has clearly proven the correctness of the policy of bringing doctors to the grassroots level. Besides improving the quality of primary medical examination and treatment, the program also contributes to realizing the goal that every citizen can access high-quality medical services right at their place of residence.

Đoàn Xuân Tứ, Chairman of the Mường Toong commune People’s Committee said that strengthening doctors to the commune has contributed to consolidating the medical network in the area, improving the efficiency of healthcare work for the people. Seconded doctors have promoted well their professional capacity, upheld the sense of responsibility, coordinated closely with the commune health station, thereby step by step improving the quality of primary medical services for local people.

The rotation and reinforcement of doctors and nurses from the upper level to work at commune and ward health stations has been affirming clear effectiveness in improving the quality of grassroots-level healthcare. Accordingly, each rotation phase is organized flexibly, from 1 - 2 weeks for provincial level staff and about 1 month for staff belonging to health centers.

Through reinforcement phases, seconded staff, doctors, and nurses to the grassroots level directly participate in medical examination, treatment, preventive medicine work, and at the same time support professional transfer to the lower level. Thereby, contributing importantly to reducing overload for the upper level; step by step improving the quality of primary healthcare, meeting better and better the needs of the people.