This is one of the solutions implemented under the direction of the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee with the goal of "leaving no one behind" in the universal health check-up program. Reality shows that although periodic health check-ups are the right of all citizens, for many elderly people, people with disabilities or patients with chronic diseases, going to medical facilities is still a major obstacle.
To remove this difficulty, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has issued Official Dispatch No. 9510/SYT-NVY, requesting localities to organize mobile examination teams, directly going to each household to examine the health of people who are unable to travel.
In Hiep Phuoc commune, one of the localities effectively implementing this model, the Health Station has established 7 Health Care Teams continuously in charge of each residential area. The teams coordinate with local authorities, hamlet management boards and the network of health collaborators to review and make a list of cases that need to be examined at home.
In just the first deployment phase, 145 people in groups with travel difficulties were health checked right at their place of residence. At each household, medical staff fully implement the contents of the periodic health check-up package such as exploiting medical history, clinical examination, measuring vitality indicators, taking samples for testing, assessing risk factors and health care advice. Cases of abnormalities are guided to be transferred to medical facilities for continued monitoring and treatment.
Not only stopping at medical examination activities, all health check-up results are also updated to the Community Health Management Platform and Electronic Health Records. This helps health stations continuously monitor people's health status, manage chronic diseases and proactively intervene when necessary.
To date, many communes and wards in Ho Chi Minh City have implemented the home health check-up model for more than 1,000 people in groups who cannot walk. The model is assessed as a shift from the thinking of "waiting for people to come for examination" to "proactively reaching out to people", contributing to realizing the goal of 100% of city residents having periodic health check-ups, having electronic health records and being continuously managed health according to the life cycle.
