Minister Dao Hong Lan responds to increased allowances for medical staff and exempted hospital fees

Minister Dao Hong Lan said the Politburo has allowed the selection of subjects and levels to gradually increase allowances for medical staff.

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan - Photo: GIA HAN

On the morning of December 2, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan explained the opinions raised by delegates at the National Assembly discussion session.

Allowances for medical staff will be increased.

Regarding the salary and allowance policies for medical staff, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that the policies for medical staff in the recent past have faced many difficulties.

Therefore, the process of drafting Resolution 72 was allowed by the Politburo to select the number of subjects and levels to gradually increase the allowance regime for medical staff.

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Regarding the policy of free hospital fees and diversified health insurance packages, Minister Dao Hong Lan said that in the spirit of Resolution 282 of the Government on the action program to implement Resolution 72, the Ministry of Health was assigned to develop a project.

She informed that the first workshop session was held to collect opinions from ministries, branches and localities to complete this content.

In which, it is proposed to include general principles on the basis of which the Government will guide implementation.

If the regulations are too detailed about the subjects and roadmap, when resources or implementation conditions change, it will be impossible to amend the law or resolution immediately.

Therefore, this content will be included in the Government's guidance document.

Regarding the national target program on health care, population and development for the 2026-2035 period, Ms. Lan said that there are 5 projects and many sub-projects that are designed in a balanced manner.

The population and development project has a total capital of more than 29,600 billion VND, of which about 1,500 billion VND is for communication alone.

Regarding the content related to elderly care facilities, the minister said that the elderly care policy already includes references to social protection and nursing facilities.

This content is included in project number 4 of the national target program, which specifically stipulates how many nursing homes to repair and how many new nursing homes to build.

The Minister informed that currently the country has three geriatric hospitals, 14 central hospitals and 48 provincial hospitals with geriatric departments; in the coming time, there will be many specific policies to attract investment in building specialized geriatric hospitals.

Proposal to increase medical allowance by 200-300%, regardless of region

According to the draft, doctors, preventive medicine doctors and pharmacists will be ranked from level 2 (coefficient 2.67) as soon as they are recruited, instead of level 1 as at present.

Delegate Pham Khanh Phong Lan (HCMC) agreed with the draft but said that the salary level 2 and level 1 are not that far apart. Therefore, she proposed to raise the salary level to level 3 and level 4 for newly recruited doctors and expand the policy to other groups of medical staff.

She suggested not to differentiate the preferential allowances of 100% and 70%, regardless of region, because the urban living standard is high, so consider raising the allowance to 200%, 300%.

Delegate Thach Phuoc Binh (Vinh Long) said that the second salary level only improves initial income, not solving the root problem of low income.

He proposed to build a specific salary table for the health sector linked to risk, responsibility, seniority, and apply allowances according to job position instead of equalizing according to qualifications.

Along with that, expand 100% of preferential occupational allowances for resuscitation, anti-poisoning, ICU, infectious diseases, epidemic prevention, emergency, high-risk testing, ensuring fairness between specialties with equivalent levels of danger.

At the same time, raise basic and preventive health allowances to a unified level of 100% nationwide, considering this a special priority, and disadvantaged areas will enjoy an additional attraction allowance of 30-50%.

Supplementing protection mechanisms for medical staff such as compulsory professional liability insurance, legal support, safety protection, and psychological support for high-pressure departments

Fifth, ensure the source of allowances from the budget, avoid dependence on the autonomy of the hospital, health insurance must be paid on time to ensure increased income.

Encourage businesses to invest in developing digital health products and services

Regarding investment in building digital healthcare infrastructure, delegate Nguyen Thi Suu (Hue City) proposed to specify the goals of digital transformation in healthcare; assign specific tasks to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology in building digital infrastructure.

At the same time, create clear incentive mechanisms for businesses to link with high-tech services in the health system.

She also proposed revising this regulation so that the state prioritizes investment in building a national health database system, digital infrastructure and a shared platform capable of connecting medical facilities, preventive medicine units and health insurance to improve the quality of management, treatment and health care.

The goal is to achieve 100% digitalization of electronic medical records by 2030 and apply information technology in 80% of medical examination and treatment services by 2035.

In addition to encouraging businesses to invest in developing digital health products and services under the form of public-private partnerships (PPP), they must also perform public-private service transactions or contracts to purchase medical technology services. Businesses are entitled to tax incentives, land and investment procedures that meet quality criteria and other data to ensure the quality of medical examination and treatment.

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