The Ministry of Health is drafting a Decree regulating preferential allowances for civil servants and employees working at public health facilities. Many subjects will have their allowances increased by 60%.
According to the Ministry of Health, Decree 56/2011/ND-CP on preferential allowances for public health workers has contributed to increasing income. However, after more than 13 years, changes in disease patterns, emerging epidemics and increasing rates of non-communicable diseases require appropriate adjustments.
The draft Decree will apply to both civil servants and contract workers as prescribed in Decree 111/2022/ND-CP, in which each person is only entitled to the highest level of occupational allowance, even if assigned to many different jobs.
According to the draft, the 60% allowance applies to civil servants:
- Examination, treatment, care for people with infectious diseases (not included in point 1 above); emergency and emergency transportation 115.
- Test to identify infectious agents;
- Border health quarantine;
- Radiation therapy, chemotherapy, molecular biology, nuclear medicine.
According to the draft, the 50% allowance applies to civil servants who are regularly assigned to directly do the following jobs: examination, treatment, care, and service for patients in anesthesia and resuscitation, diagnostic imaging, pediatrics, anti-poisoning, burns, and dermatology.
Previously, according to Decree 56, the 60% allowance applied to civil servants and public employees who regularly and directly performed the following jobs: Examination, treatment, care for emergency patients, emergency resuscitation, 115 emergency, infectious diseases; Testing, prevention of infectious diseases; Border medical quarantine.
Meanwhile, Decree 56 stipulates a 50% allowance applicable to civil servants and public employees who regularly and directly examine, treat, care for, and serve patients in anesthesia, resuscitation, intensive care, pediatrics, anti-poisoning, burns, and dermatology.
Thus, the new draft regulation adds an allowance of 60% for civil servants in the fields of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, molecular biology, and nuclear medicine; adds an allowance of 50% for civil servants in the field of diagnostic imaging.
