HÀ NỘI — The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years. The 35-year-old haemophilia patient from the southern province of Vĩnh Long racked up medical costs which were covered by public health insurance fund at a record rate – nearly VNĐ 13billion (US$560,000) According to Việt Nam Social Security, the country’s health insurance fund paid more than VNĐ 4.5 billion for the patient’s treatment in HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital in 2017, another VNĐ7 billion in 2018 and nearly VNĐ 1.4 billion in the first five months of this year. The payment marked a record amount that public health insurance fund has ever covered for an individual’s medical treatment since the early 1990s when Việt Nam’s first health insurance policies were passed. As the patient is from a poor family he is … [Read more...] about Health insurance
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Health insurance – a lifebuoy for patients
HÀ NỘI — The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years. The 35-year-old haemophilia patient from the southern province of Vĩnh Long racked up medical costs which were covered by public health insurance fund at a record rate – nearly VNĐ 13billion (US$560,000) According to Việt Nam Social Security, the country’s health insurance fund paid more than VNĐ 4.5 billion for the patient’s treatment in HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital in 2017, another VNĐ7 billion in 2018 and nearly VNĐ 1.4 billion in the first five months of this year. The payment marked a record amount that public health insurance fund has ever covered for an individual’s medical treatment since the early 1990s when Việt Nam’s first health insurance policies were passed. As the patient is from a poor family he is … [Read more...] about Health insurance – a lifebuoy for patients
Family doctor a reliable address for all people
Pregnancy check up at a family doctor clinic model in District 2, Hồ Chí Minh City. Photo sggp.org. vn Professor Nguyễn Thanh Hiệp, named one of the country’s top physicians in 2018 by the Vietnamese Young Doctors’ Association, talks to Sức Khỏe & Đời sống (Health & Life) newspaper on the need to develop the family doctor model Many Vietnamese people see the family doctor model as for rich people. How do you respond to that? I have studied family physicians since 2005. But in the last few years, a pilot project named ‘Family Doctor’ was launched by the Ministry of Health to share the burden of overloaded patients in many public hospitals in the country. In such a situation, many Vietnamese policymakers support developing grassroots healthcare clinics. Such clinics aim to give primary healthcare for people living in certain areas. However, in reality, many people think the function of these … [Read more...] about Family doctor a reliable address for all people
Expats vote Vietnam among best countries to live and work
HSBC’s 11th annual Expat Explorer survey reveals that expats in Vietnam annually earn $90,408 on average, with 31 per cent seeing an income rise of 25 per cent and above. Vietnam, accordingly, ranks in the first place in the world with nearly three quarters (72 per cent) saying moving to Vietnam helped them save more, while 72 per cent also agree that they have more disposable income than they did in their home country. Both proportions are higher than the global average (52 per cent for savings and 56 per cent for disposable income). The survey was conducted in the form of an online questionnaire, with the participation of 22,318 expats from 163 countries and territories. The most popular purpose of their saving or investment is still retirement (43 per cent), followed by buying the first/next property (30 per cent). Nevertheless, when it comes to property ownership, one-fourth (26 per cent) of expats own property in Vietnam, while the global average is 36 per cent. Expats … [Read more...] about Expats vote Vietnam among best countries to live and work
Group helps the poor access life-saving medical care
Viet Nam News San Hà HCM CITY — When doctors in Cần Thơ City diagnosed Phạm Thanh Nhựt with a heart defect shortly after his birth, his parents had no idea where to seek help. The family, which had no home or assets, was living with Nhựt’s grandmother in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang, surviving on unskilled manual work and an unstable income. A year later, they heard about the Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients in Cần Thơ City, which was able to find local donors who were willing to pay for the operation to repair the wall between the left and right ventricles of Nhựt’s heart. However, to his parents’ dismay, doctors at the HCM City University Medical Centre, where the operation took place, revealed that more operations would be necessary as the boy grew up. Often suffering from sluggishness or exhaustion, Nhựt bravely underwent a second surgery … [Read more...] about Group helps the poor access life-saving medical care