From 2025, the elderly in Ho Chi Minh City will receive free health check-ups.

By 2025, the elderly (60 years old and above) in Ho Chi Minh City will receive free health check-ups to 'prevent' diseases from a distance.

Elderly people in Ho Chi Minh City visiting a medical station are being guided through the steps of a health check-up - Photo: THU HIEN

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan for health check-ups and early detection of non-communicable diseases in the elderly in Ho Chi Minh City from now until the end of 2025 and the following years.

Accordingly, after two years of implementing health check-ups for the elderly, the city has examined 526,292 people and discovered 49,197 people with high blood pressure but did not know it before (accounting for 15% of the elderly in the area).

This plan aims to continue to meet health care needs, adapt to the aging population and achieve the target of 80% of the elderly receiving regular health check-ups at least once a year, and having their health records maintained and managed.

Ho Chi Minh City will expand the scope of health check-ups for the elderly throughout the city after the merger (including area 2 - Binh Duong province and area 3 - Ba Ria - Vung Tau province before).

Accordingly, every elderly person in the city is given a periodic health check-up once a year (the cost of the health check-up is paid by the city budget).

Through health check-ups, people who are found to have non-communicable diseases must be managed and treated according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Health examination results must be integrated and updated into electronic health records to help people self-manage their personal health information, while providing complete information to medical examination and treatment facilities when people come for examination.

The City People's Committee assigned the Department of Health to be the focal agency to advise and comprehensively implement periodic health check-ups for the elderly in the city.

Assign medical centers to coordinate with general hospitals and clinics to organize health check-ups and make payment according to current regulations.

How many elderly people are there in Ho Chi Minh City?

According to the report of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, it is estimated that by June 30, 2025, the total number of elderly people (aged 60 and over) in the city will be about 1.7 million people, accounting for over 12% of the population.

After implementing administrative unit arrangement, the city continues to record a high population aging index and a rapid increase, surpassing previous forecasts. The city is currently the locality with the fastest population aging rate in the country.

The rapid aging process poses many challenges in policy planning and implementation, especially in the areas of social infrastructure, health care systems and social security for the elderly.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tu-2025-nguoi-cao-tuoi-tai-tp-hcm-duoc-kham-suc-khoe-mien-phi-20250826132621907.htm