This year, the capital city is striving to reduce the third child birth rate by 0.15% year-on-year, and achieve 88% of the elderly having their health checked-up, 84% of pregnant women receiving four common disease screening, and 89% of newborns receiving five common disease screening. The rate of elderly people receiving regular health checks is 88%.

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Health examination before marriage is an important preventive step in improving population quality.

The sex ratio at birth is expected to be 111 boys/100 girls, the rate of couples receiving consultation and health examination before marriage will be 65%, and the number of people using new contraceptive methods will be 403,730.

To that end, the municipal People's Committee continues to implement a project to promote and expand the society's involvement in supplying contraceptives, family planning commodities and reproductive health services to 2030; and plans to approve another to expand the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of several prenatal and neonatal diseases in the city to 2030; and implements activities and models to improve population quality in the new situation.

Source: VNA