The Ministry of Justice has just announced documents appraising the draft Decree detailing the regime of professional preferential allowances for civil servants and employees at public health facilities.
According to the draft, the health sector will apply 6 different allowance levels, from 30% to 100%, depending on the nature of the job and the working environment.
The draft applies to public employees and laborers at public health facilities, including public social assistance facilities. The content clearly stipulates the beneficiaries, principles of application, calculation method, benefit level, benefit period and source of professional preferential allowance payment.
The highest allowance level is 100%, applied to medical staff who regularly directly perform specific, high-risk tasks such as psychiatric examination and treatment, forensic, forensic psychiatry, emergency resuscitation, anti-poison, and pathology. In addition, medical staff working at commune health stations, preventive medicine facilities in remote, isolated, border, island, ethnic minority areas or socio-economically particularly difficult areas are also eligible for this level.
The 70% allowance level is for medical staff directly treating leprosy, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, group A infectious diseases, care for newborns, people with particularly severe disabilities; working at high-level biosafety laboratories or opioid addiction treatment facilities.
The 60% level applies to tasks related to the treatment of infectious diseases, pathogen testing, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, nuclear medicine, drug preparation for cancer treatment and community disease prevention and control monitoring.
At 50%, the beneficiaries are medical staff working in the fields of anesthesia and resuscitation, burns, dermatology, pediatrics, diagnostic imaging, infection control and clinical pharmacy.
The 40% allowance level applies to most common medical examination and treatment activities, rehabilitation, traditional medicine, drug production and preservation, medical equipment inspection, clinical nutrition, reproductive health care... The group of non-specialized staff at specialized facilities such as tuberculosis, leprosy, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness are also subject to this category.
Meanwhile, the lowest level of 30% is for civil servants working in health education communication, population; medical staff at schools, agencies and those who do not directly practice medical expertise at medical service units.
Regarding the implementation roadmap, the draft proposes that allowance levels from 70% and below will be applied immediately in 2026. The 100% allowance level will be implemented in stages: 20% in 2026, 90% in 2027, and 100% will be fully applied from 2028.
According to the drafting agency, the adjustment of professional preferential allowances aims to recognize the specific nature of the job, the level of occupational risk of medical staff, and at the same time contribute to retaining and attracting human resources in the medical industry.
