(VOVworld) – A seminar to review a EU-funded project on healthcare services for poor and disadvantaged people in the Northern mountainous provinces and Central highlands took place today in Hanoi.

After being in operation for 6 years, the project has helped the poor to access quality health services in underdeveloped remote areas in Vietnam. In 2011 alone, the project provided training to more than 3000 local medical staff and pinpointed 60,000 malnourished children. In the area the project coverd, more than 90 percent  of children under 1 have now been vaccinated and 200,000 people given support with medical cost. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Xuyen said: "The experience and results of the project will be applied and be expanded to the national public healthcare program. Regarding medical insurance, we have piloted a quota-based payment method at 3 district level medical centers and plan to expand this to more clinics nationwide".