Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem (R) and Cuban Deputy Minister of Health Marcia Cobas Riuz (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City is keen to implement health care cooperation programmes with Cuba, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem said at a reception for visiting Cuban Deputy Minister of Health Marcia Cobas Riuz on May 16. He said HCM City wants to carry out the Cuban doctors programme in the city and collaborate in the distribution of pharmaceutical products and human resources training. The city is willing to work with Cuba to implement a plan on primary dental care, he added. Marcia Cobas Riuz said her ongoing visit aims to increase the efficiency of cooperation in medical care between Vietnam and Cuba in general and between Cuba and Vietnamese localities in particular. Based on the sound traditional relations between the two countries, … [Read more...] about HCM City wants to cooperate with Cuba in health care
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NA Vice Chairwoman lauds WHO’s efforts in public health care
Permanent NA Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong (R) and WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong lauded the World Health Organisation (WHO) for partnering with Vietnam to improve public health care quality during a reception in Hanoi on April 26 for WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai. Phong thanked the director for his contributions in his capacity as WHO chief representative in Vietnam during 2012-2014. She informed her guest that Vietnam is devising social policies towards progress, fairness and effectiveness. The Vietnamese Party and State consider policies and laws on health care and population a focus to achieve the people-centred goal for comprehensive development, she said, adding that the Vietnamese legislature will give opinions on the draft law on the prevention and control of harmful consequences of alcoholic drinks … [Read more...] about NA Vice Chairwoman lauds WHO’s efforts in public health care
Deputy PM calls for better preventive health care services
Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam urged medical facilities nationwide to step up preventive health care services and ensure adequate vaccines to prevent the spread of epidemics such as measles and dengue fever. Localities should allocate more money to reach the target of spending 30 percent of health care service’s national budget on preventive medicine, he said at a working session with medical agencies on March 21. He also urged medical centre to play an active role in applying technology to modernise healthcare records and medical check-ups to reduce waiting times. Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said technology application is the biggest challenge the sector needs to address. The ministry will step up technology application in the future to connect medicine supplying facilities and launch electronic personal health records. In the past, local hospitals applied new advanced techniques including tissue … [Read more...] about Deputy PM calls for better preventive health care services
Hanwha Life Vietnam donates 4,636 health insurance cards to the poor
Hanwha Life Vietnam, a Korean life insurer, donated 4,363 health insurance cards worth VND1.4 billion (US$60,100) to poor people in the country on Tuesday with an aim of improving health care condition for them. The project is co-worked between Hanwha Life Vietnam and the HCM City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP) to distribute the health insurance cards to the poor living in four provinces of Kon Tum, Lam Dong, Ca Mau and Binh Phuoc. Back Jong Kook, Chairman of Member Council cum CEO of Hanwha Life Vietnam (right), presents 4,636 health insurance cards to Tran Thanh Long, Chairman of the Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients in HCM City. — Photo courtesy of the company “As an insurer, we highly appreciate the importance of health care for the community, especially those still living in needy conditions”, said Back Jong Kook, Chairman of Member Council cum CEO of Hanwha Life Vietnam. “In co-operation with SAPP, we are committed to … [Read more...] about Hanwha Life Vietnam donates 4,636 health insurance cards to the poor
Vietnam to install microchip in patients’ health insurance cards by 2020
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc set the dealine of 2020 for the national insurance agency to install microchip in health cards that allow related agencies to easily access patients’ health records Present, the insurance agency is promoting electronic database building as well as implement synchronous measures related to installable microchips that can store patients’ electronic health records (EHRs) including submitting for the new card formation and roadmap for issuance of it. After finishing all paperwork, the insurance sector will submit to the Prime Minister for final approval. The aim of microchip health insurance card is to build database of the field, share information and supervise the payment in social and medical insurance. An installed chip has benefits such as allowing emergency room staff to identify an unresponsive patient and have instant access to his or her medical history, including current medications and allergies. It will be applied in all medical … [Read more...] about Vietnam to install microchip in patients’ health insurance cards by 2020
Vietnam works to ensure access to health care for each citizen
Vietnam has gone a long way since it entered the Alma-Ata Declaration, joining the world community in committing itself to ensuring public health by providing primary health care (PHC) to the entire nation. Nurse Nong Thi Viet from the Kim Dong commune's medical station (Cao Bang province) walks to the house of Nong Thi La, a member of Nung ethnic minority group during a routine visit. La has been treated for diabetes. In September 1978, just three years into the country reconstruction after the Vietnam War ended, the Southeast Asian nation signed the Alma Ata Declaration in the capital of Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, to demonstrate commitments to ensuring citizens’ health. The declaration is "a major milestone of the twentieth century in the field of public health, and it identified primary health care as the key to the attainment of the goal of Health for All," said the World Health Organization. Along with a robust economic growth, one of Asia's fastest in the past … [Read more...] about Vietnam works to ensure access to health care for each citizen
No new health insurance cards next year: VSI
A sample of a health insurance card. No new health insurance cards will be issued from 2019, according to Việt Nam Social Insurance. — Photo vov.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — No new health insurance cards will be issued from 2019, according to Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI). Nguyễn Hoàng Phương, deputy director of the Information Technology Centre at VSI, said at a press conference on Wednesday that the VSI system would continue to update participants’ data without the need to change the card every year as in the past. The social insurance agency will renew the validity of the cards in the system and send the list to card holders’ management units, Phương said, adding that the cards provided to insurers in 2017 and 2018 will continue to be used in the following years. Individuals and organisations can look up information, such as the participation process, validity of the card and health … [Read more...] about No new health insurance cards next year: VSI
8,149 health insurance cards to be handed out to the poor
Hanwha Life Vietnam, in collaboration with the Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients in Ho Chi Minh City, signed a cooperation agreement to donate free healthcare cards to improve living conditions and access to healthcare services for the poor. Back Jong Kook presents 8,149 health insurance cards to Tran Thanh Long, chairman of the Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients in Ho Chi Minh City The VND1.4-billion ($70,500) programme will donate a total of 8,149 health insurance cards to the poor in the four provinces of Nghe An, Ca Mau, Kon Tum, and Lam Dong. At the signing ceremony, more than 4,500 health insurance cards were handed out to disadvantaged households in the central province of Nghe An. Hanwha Life Vietnam has been implementing the project for five consecutive years since 2014. Back Jong Kook, CEO cum chairman of the Members’ Council of Hanwha Life Vietnam, said: “As an insurance firm, we realise the importance of community healthcare, especially … [Read more...] about 8,149 health insurance cards to be handed out to the poor
Russia provides remote health care services to Vietnam
The signing ceremony for a strategic partnership agreement between the Russian Centre of Corporate Medicine (CCM) and Vietnam’s Dr. Binh Tele Clinic was held in Hanoi on March 5, marking a new milestone in providing management services and remote healthcare for individuals, households, and businesses in Vietnam. Under the agreement, CCM will provide services in emergency first aid, remote health care, chronic disease management, and prevention of occupational and malignant diseases to international standards. The cooperation is expected to provide high efficiency healthcare for labourers in enterprises, especially in the field of chronic disease management and prevention of malignant and occupational diseases due to toxic environments. The model also promises to make changes, particularly in the sense of "prevention rather than cure." Professor Sergey Antipov, Director General of CCM, said that the application of telemedicine technology with the help of TeleHealth Centre 24/7 … [Read more...] about Russia provides remote health care services to Vietnam
Programme provides health care to 6 million people
HÀ NỘI — A community health care programme has provided free checkups, treatment and medicines to more than 6 million people in nearly 13,500 campaigns nationwide, heard a conference held in Hà Nội on Thursday to review its outcomes. The 2014-17 programme, worth more than VNĐ1.318 trillion (US$58.5 million), is aimed at mobilising resources and the participation of society towards humanitarian health checkups and treatment in an effort to provide primary health care to at least 1 million impoverished people yearly. Deputy minister of health Nguyễn Viết Tiến said that the programme has contributed remarkably in providing primary health care services and medicines to needy people at the grassroots level, especially to the poor, disadvantaged people in island, mountainous and remote areas. “The programme, a good policy of the Party and the government, should be expanded in the country with new mechanisms to … [Read more...] about Programme provides health care to 6 million people