Are school healthcare staff required to have a professional practice certificate to receive occupational preferential policies?
At Article 11 of Decree 76/2019/ND-CP, there are regulations regarding professional preferential allowances as follows:
The professional preferential allowance is 70% of the current salary (according to the salary table prescribed by the competent authority of the Communist Party and the State) plus the leadership position allowance and seniority allowance beyond the regulatory pay scale (if any), applicable to the actual working period in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions for the subjects stipulated in Article 2 of this Decree, comprising:
- Civil servants, public employees, and workers who are educators, public employees managing education in educational institutions and vocational education establishments;
- Civil servants, public employees and direct laborers performing medical expertise in state medical facilities including: Commune-level health stations; agency and school health stations; regional general clinics; maternity homes, medical centers, hospitals and other medical facilities from the commune level upwards;
- Officers, professional soldiers, defense public employees, and military medical personnel directly performing medical expertise at combined military-civil health stations.
=> Therefore, the Decree does not stipulate that school health public employees must have a practicing certificate to be eligible for the professional preferential allowance.
Additionally, the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment 2009 stipulates:
Article 17. Persons applying for a practicing certificate
Doctors, assistant doctors
Nurses
Midwives
Technicians
Traditional medicine practitioners
Persons having traditional medicinal recipes or traditional treatment methods
=> Thus, according to the above regulations, if you are a school health staff (only performing simple examinations), you do not fall under the categories prescribed for the granting of a practicing certificate for medical examination and treatment. Currently, we have not found any regulation regarding the granting of a practicing certificate for school health staff.
Sincerely.
