The Ministry of Health is seeking opinions on the Draft Decree stipulating the professional preferential allowance regime for civil servants and employees at public health facilities. Notably, the draft proposes to add many new groups of subjects eligible for allowances, including medical professionals of the armed forces.
According to the draft, the subjects entitled to professional preferential allowances include public employees and contract workers working in public non-business units operating in the health sector such as disease prevention, medical examination and treatment, rehabilitation, pharmaceuticals, food safety, medical equipment, forensic medicine, population, social protection, prevention and control of social evils...
In addition, school health workers at public educational institutions and medical professionals of the armed forces are also proposed to be added to the allowance benefit area.
Compared to the current regulations in Decree 56/2011/ND-CP, the new draft expands the working group in the field of social protection and prevention and combat of social evils.
For the armed forces, the Ministry of Health cited regulations in the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army and the Law on People's Police, which clearly state that officers and soldiers are entitled to allowances and subsidies similar to cadres and civil servants with the same conditions and nature of work.
The draft also proposes 7 levels of professional preferential allowances, ranging from 30% to 100%, depending on the nature of the job and the working environment.
The highest level of 100% applies to specific positions such as emergency resuscitation, forensic medicine, pathology, care for mental patients or working in remote, isolated, border, and island areas.
The levels of 70%, 60%, 50% and 40% apply to many different professional work groups such as treating infectious diseases, testing, diagnostic imaging, anesthesia and resuscitation, clinical pharmacy, infection control...
Meanwhile, the 30% allowance level applies to public employees working in health education communication, population, school health staff and positions not directly involved in medical expertise.
For employees working under contract, the draft allows unit heads to consider and decide on appropriate allowance levels based on the specific nature of their work and professional income, but not exceeding the prescribed framework.
