Minister of Health gives reasons why men with 2 children and no wife are given priority to buy social housing

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that women who have given birth to two children or men who have two children but are no longer married will be given priority in buying social housing. The goal is to help families have better living conditions, "if you keep lining up, you never know when you will be eligible."

The National Assembly today discussed in groups the Law on Population (amended) and the Law on Disease Prevention.

Regarding the Population Law , Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that Vietnam is facing an aging population and a decreasing replacement fertility rate, requiring fundamental and urgent solutions. Population plays an important role in the survival of the nation and the country, and is also a resource for socio- economic development.

The Minister said this is a difficult bill, the issues raised have been carefully considered.

Regarding surrogacy, the Minister said that this content is in the 2014 Law on Marriage and Family. When it was introduced, public opinion and opinions were very harsh and discussed very carefully, because it is related to many aspects of society, legal issues, the rights of surrogates, and the issue of social and psychological consequences... Vietnam is one of the few countries with regulations on surrogacy.

The Minister stated that, at that time, analyzing the right to motherhood of infertile women, surrogacy was determined to be for humanitarian purposes, with a voluntary nature. The National Assembly at that time discussed very carefully and selected regulations to avoid exploitation and abuse of surrogacy when implementing.

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan. Photo: National Assembly

The Minister believes that the issue of surrogacy should not be included in the draft Law on Population. This issue will be considered and calculated based on many socio-economic factors to make an appropriate decision when the National Assembly amends the Law on Marriage and Family.

Regarding the policies in the Population Law project, the Minister said that the Ministry of Health really wants to have specific policies, especially monetary support policies. However, this needs to be balanced in many aspects, especially financial resources.

With the social housing support policy for families with two children, the draft law proposes to add more priority subjects.

Currently, priority groups for purchasing or renting social housing include families of people with revolutionary contributions, relatives of martyrs, people with disabilities, and people being resettled.

The Minister emphasized that the demand for social housing is currently very large, not all registered subjects can buy.

The government also proposed to add priority groups to families where women have given birth to two children or men have two children whose wives have passed away. The goal is to help families with two children have better living conditions. The proposed groups will be among the priority groups for home purchase.

"When scoring, this group's score is at a high level, similar to other priority groups. But if we keep queuing now, we don't know when we will be eligible to buy. The Population Law approaches it from that perspective," the Minister explained.

She also said that the proposal to expand the scope to include people with children out of wedlock should be considered.

Regarding the Law on Disease Prevention , Minister Dao Hong Lan emphasized that the development of the law is necessary, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed loopholes in the legal system on health, while the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases has too narrow a scope and is no longer suitable.

One of the key points is that the draft law has expanded its scope of regulation. For the first time, common non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure will be specifically included in the law, making the regulations easier to understand and implement in practice.

The Minister added that the draft law has breakthrough solutions to encourage the participation of private healthcare, from hospitals, medical facilities to pharmaceutical and equipment manufacturing sectors.

Evidence of the success of this strategy is the capacity to produce vaccines domestically. Currently, Vietnam has self-sufficient 11 out of 12 vaccines in the expanded immunization program. This production capacity comes not only from the public system but also from the increasingly large contributions of non-public units.

The Ministry of Health is actively coordinating with French, Russian, and Cuban partners to implement vaccine and drug production programs, in which the role of the non-public system is particularly encouraged.

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