During a meeting with police officers supporting the Southern battlefield during the resistance war against the US to save the country, General Secretary To Lam affirmed the focus on developing health care, taking care of people's health, moving towards free hospital fees for all people, so that every Vietnamese person can truly have a prosperous and happy life...
This afternoon, May 6, at a regular Government press conference, the press asked about the Ministry of Health's roadmap on this issue. Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan said that this is a major, humane policy, demonstrating the superiority of our regime for the people.
Under the direction of General Secretary To Lam, the Ministry of Health is determined to implement this, this is a policy that touches the hearts of millions of people and the great aspirations of the people.
The implementation of this policy will have a positive impact such as increasing access to health services, proactively preventing, diagnosing, detecting and treating diseases early, increasing treatment efficiency, and optimizing the use of health finance.
Along with that, it is necessary to reduce the financial burden on people, increase opportunities to escape poverty, and improve the quality of human resources.
Better health means a more productive workforce, contributing to GDP growth and reducing the risk of economic recession, promoting social justice - Mr. Thuan said.
Regarding the orientation for implementing this policy, the Deputy Minister of Health said that from 2026 - 2030, it is expected that 90% of people will have full access to disease prevention and control services, improve health, and be fully vaccinated according to age and subjects.
People have initial health care, reproductive health, mother's health, children, mental health, school health, screening for health risks. Periodic health examination, chronic disease management, medical examination, general medical treatment, family medicine right from the grassroots health. 100% of people have regular health check -ups once a year, are made electronic health books for health management throughout the life cycle.
"An estimated 100 million people, with each health check-up costing about 250,000 VND, equivalent to 25,000 billion VND/year" - Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan said.
In addition, the State Budget will increase support for purchasing health insurance cards to strive for 100% of the population to have health insurance.
Expand the scope of health insurance benefits and gradually pay for preventive services, screening, early diagnosis and treatment at an early stage.
Gradually reduce the proportion of people's spending on total spending on medical services to below 20%, the co-payment of health insurance examination and treatment costs to below 10%.
By 2045, the Deputy Minister said that the health system will fully and promptly meet the requirements of care, protection and improving people's health.
Regarding the implementation plan, Mr. Thuan said that the Ministry of Health is drafting a Resolution of the Politburo to report to the Government, submit to the Politburo to issue a Resolution on breakthroughs in people's health care, meeting the requirements of national development in the new era.
In which, many solutions are proposed to focus on developing health care, taking care of people's health, and moving towards exempting hospital fees for all people.
At the same time, the Ministry of Health is developing to issue circulars regulating the list, rates, levels and payment conditions for medical technical services, drugs, and medical equipment within the scope of benefits for health insurance participants, in which it stipulates increasing the rate and payment level for some drugs and medical equipment in the direction of free for some subjects.
