In order to ensure emergency care and medical examination and treatment for people during the Binh Ngo Lunar New Year 2026, the Ministry of Health has just issued a document directing health units nationwide to increase duty, ready to respond to any medical situations that may occur during the Tet holiday.
The Ministry of Health requests Directors of hospitals under the Ministry, Directors of Departments of Health of provinces and centrally-run cities and Heads of Health of Ministries and sectors to direct affiliated medical examination and treatment facilities to strictly implement key tasks:
Ensure 24/24 hour duty, ready to respond to all situations.
Medical examination and treatment facilities must organize full duty at 4 levels, including: leadership duty; hotline information processing duty; professional duty; administrative - logistics duty and security - self-defense duty. The list of duty staff must be publicly posted in departments and rooms for convenience in operation and coordination.
The Ministry of Health requests units to proactively ensure sufficient human resources, medicines, blood and blood products, intravenous fluids, supplies, chemicals, medical equipment and medical oxygen. Hospitals need to arrange enough beds and facilities to serve reception, emergency and treatment, focusing on cases of traffic accidents, fires, explosions, injuries, and food poisoning.
At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the absorption and timely treatment of common infectious diseases in winter-spring, minimizing severe complications and deaths.
Health units must develop and be ready to deploy plans to respond to accidents, poisoning, and mass emergency care that may occur in the area. In particular, it is necessary to prepare emergency forces at tourist areas, entertainment venues, and crowded events during Tet and the early year festival season.
The Ministry of Health requests hospitals to organize visits, encouragement and celebrate Tet for patients who are still being treated at the hospital during Tet, paying special attention to poor patients and policy beneficiaries, ensuring that patients are fully cared for both medically and spiritually.
All medical examination and treatment facilities with hospital beds must report online daily on the reporting system of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management - Ministry of Health throughout the Tet holiday. The reporting content includes summary data on emergency care, medical examination and treatment and a detailed list of accidents and poisoning cases as prescribed.
Cases of death or serious cases requested to be reported separately on the death cause management subsystem in accordance with the guidance of the Ministry of Health. The time to finalize reporting data is by shift, from 07:00 on the previous day to 07:00 on the reporting day.
Local Departments of Health and sectoral Health are responsible for assigning standing officials to report daily; reviewing and checking the completeness and accuracy of data on the system and summarizing reports promptly to the Ministry of Health in accordance with regulations.
The Ministry of Health said that it will organize surprise inspection teams to prepare and perform duty shifts at some hospitals and institutes with hospital beds under the Ministry and local hospitals before and during the Binh Ngo Lunar New Year 2026.
The Ministry of Health requests units to seriously and fully implement the above contents, and report on time so that the Ministry can promptly summarize the situation and report to the Prime Minister, contributing to ensuring people celebrate Tet safely and healthily.
