Does the State encourage organizations and individuals to give free-of-charge medical examination and treatment to the elderly in Vietnam?
- What are the regulations on medical examination and treatment for the elderly in Vietnam?
- Does the State encourage organizations and individuals to give free-of- charge medical examination and treatment to the elderly?
- What are the responsibilities of the health station in taking care of the health of the elderly in Vietnam?
What are the regulations on medical examination and treatment for the elderly in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 12 of the 2009 Law on Elderly in Vietnam stipulating as follows:
Medical examination and treatment
1. Prioritized medical examination and treatment for the elderly shall be carried out as follows:
a/ Persons aged full 80 or older shall be given priority for medical examination before other persons, except emergency patients, under-6 children and heavily disabled people;
b/ Elderly inpatients are arranged proper hospital beds.
2. Hospitals, except pediatrics hospitals, have the following responsibilities:
a/ To organize gerontologic departments or set aside a number of beds for treatment of elderly patients:
b/ To rehabilitate elderly patients' health after pernicious disease treatments at hospital and guide their further treatment and care at home;
c/ To combine traditional medicine with modern medicine in treatment and guide methods of non-medicine treatment at grassroots health establishments for elderly patients.
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Thus, prioritized medical examination and treatment for the elderly is made as follows:
- Persons aged full 80 or older shall be given priority for medical examination before other persons, except emergency patients, under-6 children and heavily disabled people;
- Elderly inpatients are arranged proper hospital beds.
- Hospitals, except pediatrics hospitals, have the following responsibilities:
+ To organize gerontologic departments or set aside a number of beds for treatment of elderly patients:
+ To rehabilitate elderly patients' health after pernicious disease treatments at hospital and guide their further treatment and care at home;
+ To combine traditional medicine with modern medicine in treatment and guide methods of non-medicine treatment at grassroots health establishments for elderly patients.
Does the State encourage organizations and individuals to give free-of- charge medical examination and treatment to the elderly in Vietnam?
Does the State encourage organizations and individuals to give free-of- charge medical examination and treatment to the elderly?
According to the provisions of Article 12 of the 2009 Law on Elderly in Vietnam as follows:
Medical examination and treatment
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2. Hospitals, except pediatrics hospitals, have the following responsibilities:
a/ To organize gerontologic departments or set aside a number of beds for treatment of elderly patients:
b/ To rehabilitate elderly patients' health after pernicious disease treatments at hospital and guide their further treatment and care at home;
c/ To combine traditional medicine with modern medicine in treatment and guide methods of non-medicine treatment at grassroots health establishments for elderly patients:
3. The State encourages organizations and individuals to give free-of- charge medical examination and treatment to the elderly.
Thus, according to the above regulations, the State encourages organizations and individuals to give free-of- charge medical examination and treatment to the elderly.
What are the responsibilities of the health station in taking care of the health of the elderly in Vietnam?
According to the provisions of Article 13 of the 2009 Law on Elderly in Vietnam as follows:
Primary healthcare at places of residence
1. Commune, ward, township health stations have the following responsibilities:
a/ To carry out propaganda and dissemination in different forms of common healthcare knowledge; guide the elderly in skills of disease prevention and treatment and self-healthcare;
b/ To compile files for the elderly's health monitoring and management;
c/ To give medical examination and treatment suitable to their specialization to the elderly;
d/ To coordinate with higher-level medical establishments in organizing periodical health checkups for the elderly.
2. Commune, ward or township health stations shall send health workers to conduct medical examination and treatment at places of residence of lonely and seriously ill elderly persons who cannot go to medical establishments for examination and treatment. Commune, ward or township People's Committees shall support the transport of patients defined in this Clause to medical establishments at the proposal of commune, ward or township health stations.
3. The State encourages organizations and individuals to give medical examination and treatment to the elderly at their places of residence.
4. Funds for the implementation of tasks defined at Points a, b and d. Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article shall be provided by the state budget.
Thus, commune, ward, township health stations have the following responsibilities:
- To carry out propaganda and dissemination in different forms of common healthcare knowledge; guide the elderly in skills of disease prevention and treatment and self-healthcare;
- To compile files for the elderly's health monitoring and management;
- To give medical examination and treatment suitable to their specialization to the elderly;
- To coordinate with higher-level medical establishments in organizing periodical health checkups for the elderly.
- Commune, ward or township health stations shall send health workers to conduct medical examination and treatment at places of residence of lonely and seriously ill elderly persons who cannot go to medical establishments for examination and treatment.
- Commune, ward or township People's Committees shall support the transport of patients defined in this Clause to medical establishments at the proposal of commune, ward or township health stations.
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