MOH

Objectives 

In regard to the implementation of health policy goals as outlined in the Government Action Plan Program (which was ratified by the Parliament of Mongolia through Act No. 35, on 21 November 2008), and as per the agreement made between the Minister of Health and the Governor, the following objectives will be carried out in 2009-2012.

- Reducing disease prevalence and mortality rates, and extending life expectancy through the introduction of healthy lifestyle and good health habits among the population. 

- Protecting and promoting the health of the population by taking preventive measures, and providing fair and equal access to healthy, nutritional food. 

- Introducing an e-card system as part of health care services, granting every citizen one annual, complex medical check-up at a hospital, and in doing so, prioritizing preventive measures

- Providing a Medicard to low-income citizens, eligible for social welfare benefits, to allow them to seek medical care services at tertiary hospitals free of charge.

- Promoting private sector hospital involvement in rendering quality and accessible medical care services, and in considering the need for improvement in the overall competence of healthcare providers, thereby minimizing Government involvement.  In light of this objective, the private health insurance system is to be introduced to the financing of the health sector, enabling hospitals to be covered under an insurance policy, regardless of their public or private status.

 - Improving and strengthening healthcare management and treatment pathways.

- Improving early detection and prevention of diseases by modifying the ways and means of delivering health education to the population (especially among adolescents and young people), and creating a system of mobile hospitals for the rural population.

- Strengthening the capacity of medical care services to be provided, and the emergency responses to be carried out, in time of environmental disasters (both natural and human-induced), infectious diseases epidemics, poisoning and injuries, and other unforeseen hazards.

- Strengthening the current mechanism for the prevention, early warning or detection, and emergency response capacity of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, and expanding the administrative structure and operational framework at provincial and district levels.
- Establishing a modern diagnostic and treatment center in the Gobi region and Orkhon province.
- Developing an e-health database of the population.  With the broad aims of expanding the electronic networks of hospitals, telemedicine and e-treatment, and granting every citizen an access to adequate health care services, specialized medical centers with latest technological innovations are to be established in order to enhance the capacity for early diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitative services.

- Improving the delivery of emergency care services to the population living in rural and remote areas, through the renewal of the emergency care system of hospitals, and the creation of a nation-wide network of emergency care providers.

- Implementing the “Healthy Child from Healthy Mother” principle at every level of medical care service providers, thus, continuing to reduce the maternal and infant mortality and morbidity rates.

- Increasing medical care services and accessibility for the elderly and the disabled who need special care.

- Strengthening laboratory capacity to examine pharmaceutical and raw materials in order to ensure the quality, safety and proper usage of pharmaceutics, and supporting the national pharmaceutical industry.

- Introducing health sector financing mechanism consistent with the quality and accessibility of healthcare services, and improving the Health Insurance Fund activities.

- Improving the professional knowledge and skills of all physicians and health care professionals, and increasing the ethical awareness and sense of responsibility of all physicians and health care providers.

 - Conducting and promoting scientific research work related to the health status of the population, and increasing its practical efficiency.

- Defining the public fitness and physical activity policy, and modifying the management, structural organization, research work, economic and financial mechanisms of this policy.

- Keeping HIV/AIDS prevalence rates at its current level through the prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) and other HIV/AIDS risks.

- Building a modern sports complex with a swimming pool of every district of the capital city.

- Establishing a telemedicine center in Ulaanbaatar.

Motto for 2009

Let’s increase the ethical awareness and sense of responsibility of health professionals!