Ministry of Health Requirements on Medical Examination, Treatment, and Emergency Response for Traffic Accidents during the April 30 and May 1, 2024 Holidays
How does the Ministry of Health ensure medical examination, treatment, and emergency response for traffic accidents during the April 30 and May 1, 2024 holidays?
On April 22, 2024, the Ministry of Health issued Official Dispatch 2045/BYT-KCB 2024 regarding the assurance of medical examination, treatment, and emergency response for traffic accidents during the April 30 and May 1, 2024 holidays.
To be specific, implementing Official Telegram 36/CD-TTg 2024 of the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam on ensuring traffic order and safety to meet the travel needs of people during the April 30 - May 1 holiday and the peak summer tourism season of 2024, the Ministry of Health requests agencies to direct relevant units to perform the following tasks well:
- Ensure a full duty roster across four levels: leadership, specialized, administrative-logistics, and security-self-defense.
- Organize effective emergency response, medical examination, and treatment, ensuring that all emergency patients are examined and treated without refusal or delayed handling of emergency cases. In cases of cross-line or cross-specialty situations, initial stabilization emergency care must be provided, with full explanation to the patient and their family before transferring to another medical facility.
- Assign emergency standby teams ready to promptly respond to mass casualty incidents, serious traffic accidents, large-scale disasters, etc., if occurring locally.
- Ensure food safety and hygiene, prevent food poisoning, drowning, trampling... and warn of accidents at crowded tourist spots.
- Emergency reporting:
+ Maintain a 24/24-hour hotline to be ready for directing, coordinating, aiding, and responding in necessary situations. In case of special developments such as disaster emergencies, mass traffic accidents, food poisoning, and other special cases, the unit is requested to report urgently to the direct management agency via the hotline, while also quickly reporting in writing about the special developments for prompt resolution.
+ Medical examination and treatment facilities must report daily data on traffic accident examination and treatment on the website cdc.keb.vn (using the 2024 Tet report account, support email ede.kcb@gmail.com, reporting time is 8 a.m. daily from April 27 - May 2, 2024). All medical examination facilities with hospital beds are required to report, even if no data on examination and treatment occurs.
+ Specialized management agencies (Department of Health, Ministry sector Health) must compile a report of the holiday period by 8 a.m. on May 2, 2024, on the online reporting website cdc.keb.vn (using the 2024 Tet report account).
How does the Ministry of Health ensure medical examination, treatment, and emergency response for traffic accidents during the April 30 and May 1, 2024 holidays?
What is the official holiday schedule for April 30-May 1, 2024?
According to Announcement 1570/TB-BLDTBXH 2024, the official holiday schedule for April 30-May 1, 2024, is as follows:
Officials and public employees and the labor force of state administrative agencies, public service providers (collectively referred to as officials and public employees) will swap the working day from Monday (April 29, 2024) to Saturday (May 4, 2024). Therefore, the holiday schedule for Victory Day April 30 and International Labor Day May 1, 2024, for officials and public employees will be a continuous 5-day holiday from Saturday, April 27, 2024, to the end of Wednesday, May 1, 2024 (make-up work on Saturday, May 4, 2024).
Agencies and units implementing the above holiday schedule must arrange and organize work departments reasonably to ensure continuous work, providing good service to organizations and the public, noting to assign officials on duty to handle unexpected work that may arise. Agencies and units that do not follow the fixed Saturday-Sunday weekly holiday schedule should base on their specific programs and plans to arrange suitable holidays, complying with the law.
Employers at enterprises are encouraged to apply Victory Day April 30 and International Labor Day May 1, 2024, holiday schedules for employees similarly to officials and public employees but must ensure full implementation of policies for employees according to legal provisions, encouraging more favorable agreements for employees.
Do employees receive bonuses for the April 30-May 1, 2024 holidays?
According to Article 104 Labor Code 2019 it is stipulated as follows:
Bonus
1. A bonus is money or assets or by other forms that the employer awards to the employee based on production and business results and the level of work completion of the employee.
2. The bonus regulations are decided by the employer and publicly announced at the workplace after consulting with the grassroots-level trade union for workplaces with a grassroots-level trade union.
Thus, awarding bonuses or not will be decided by the employer. If the bonus regulations provide for bonuses for employees on the April 30 and May 1, 2024 holidays, then employees will receive bonuses during this holiday.
The bonus regulations are decided by the employer and publicly announced at the workplace after consulting with the grassroots-level trade union for workplaces with a grassroots-level trade union.
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