Treatment quality in Vietnam to improve after service hike

 13-Aug-15, Saigon Giai Phong 

Though there has been an increase in health services, it is not enough. The ministries of Health and Finance will ask to hike medical fee accordingly in the future.

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In the road map for increasing medical fees, health services will include operation bonus and salary for medical workers in the last months of 2015 and in 2016, said Nguyen Nam Lien, deputy head of the Health Ministry’s Department of Planning and Finance.

The two ministries are waiting for approval to the circular proposing the new fees for over 17,500 techniques. Once the new fee is approved, the cost for bed will surge by VND10,000-VND20,000 (US$0.45-US$0.90) a day; operation cost will increase by VND300,000- VND1.5 million (US$13.57-US$67.87) per case and medical workers’ monthly salary also increase.

The hike in medical service will include negative and positive factors. The adjustment in medical fee will improve examination and treatment quality as well as offer a fair competition between private and public hospitals. However it will also directly affect nearly 30 percent of the population who don’t buy health insurance.

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