Are results of pre-marriage registration health checks kept secret in Vietnam?
Are results of pre-marriage registration health checks kept secret in Vietnam? Who should be mobilized to have health checks before deciding to have children in Vietnam?
Me and my lover are getting married, we are planning to go for a pre-marriage registration health check? Can you tell me if the medical facility will protect my health examination results? Please advise. Thank you.
Are results of pre-marriage registration health checks kept secret in Vietnam?
In Article 25 of Decree 104/2003/ND-CP, there are regulations on pre-marriage registration health checks as follows:
1. Encouraging males and females to have their health checked before their marriage registration, which covers contents related to hereditary diseases; sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS infection.
2. Establishments providing health checks shall notify the results thereof and give advises on the diseases’ impact on health to both males and females; keep secret the health check results as provided for by law.
According to current regulations, the results of pre-marriage registration health checks (health check before marriage registration) will be kept secret in Vietnam.
Who should be mobilized to have health checks before deciding to have children in Vietnam?
Article 26 of Decree 104/2003/ND-CP stipulates health checks and hereditary diseases as follows:
1. Persons whose family members have suffered from mental diseases, hereditary ailments, or been in the danger of having genetic defects; persons who have been infected with toxic chemicals; and people who have had frequent contacts with toxic chemicals and contagious diseases, should be mobilized to have health checks before deciding to have children.
2. The Population, Family and Children Offices of the commune/ward level shall have to propagate, mobilize and create conditions for, persons being in high risk of hereditary diseases to go for examination of hereditary diseases.
3. Establishments performing the examination of health and hereditary diseases shall have to notify the examination results to, advise the examined persons or persons in their families on the diseases’ impacts on their childbirth, raising of children, and keep secret the examination results as provided for by law.
According to this Article, people with a family history of mental diseases, hereditary ailments, or been in the danger of having genetic defects; persons who have been infected with toxic chemicals; and people who have had frequent contacts with toxic chemicals and contagious diseases will be mobilized to have health checks before deciding to have children in Vietnam.
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