Vietnam-Denmark Green Strategic Partnership delivers high-level dialogue on health
(VOVWORLD) - Danish Minister for Interior and Health Ms. Sophie Løhde visited Vietnam this week together with a high-level delegation.
 Danish Minister for Interior and Health Sophie Løhde meets Chairperson of the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly Nguyen Thuy Anh |
Minister Løhde is the first Danish Minister to visit Vietnam since the launch of the Green Strategic Partnership between Vietnam and Denmark last November. The visit is aimed at further strengthening the bilateral health cooperation, especially on primary health care and non-communicable diseases.
During her visit in Vietnam, the Danish Minister for Interior and Health met Chairperson of the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly Nguyen Thuy Anh where they explored opportunities to strengthen Vietnam’s primary healthcare system and discussed how to enhance equal access to health services for disadvantaged communities in Vietnam.
 At a meeting between Danish Minister for Interior and Health Sophie Løhde and Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan |
At the meeting with the Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan, the Danish Minister said: “Our cooperation in health is based on a common understanding that primary health care is crucial to ensuring equal access to health and tackling the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. I hope that our cooperation would contribute to ensuring equal access to basic healthcare, reducing out-of-pocket spending and helping patients live their lives to the fullest despite diseases”.
 Danish Minister for Interior and Health Sophie Løhde also visited Thai Binh province during her visit to Vietnam |
The Minister also visited Thai Binh, where training activities and joint research are being carried out. Before the ending of her visit, the Minister engageed with Vietnamese partners in efforts to curb anti-microbial resistance, a killer of more than 1.3 million people globally in 2019, during a visit to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.