(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has applauded the World Health Organization and its chief representative Dr. Kidong Park personally for their support for Vietnam’s COVID-19 prevention and control as well as overall healthcare over the past 40 years.
 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (R) and Dr. Kidong Park, World Health Organization chief representative in Vietnam. (Photo: VGP)
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At a reception in Hanoi on Wednesday for the outgoing WHO Chief, Mr Dam said the WHO has supported Vietnam in almost all fields of health: prevention and control of infectious and non-communicable diseases, the expanded program on immunization (EPI), health system development, human resource training, health policy consultation, health financing innovation, aid coordination, health insurance, the Millennium Development Goals, and tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV prevention and treatment.
The Deputy Prime Minister said he hopes in his new position, Dr. Park will continue to contribute to the cooperative activities between the WHO and Vietnam to build a modern and complete Vietnamese health system to meet and exceed the targets set out in the strategy for the care and protection of people's health until 2030.