Who has right to pay for the cost incurred in medical examination and treatment for deported person living in the accommodation in Vietnam?

Who has right to pay for the cost incurred in medical examination and treatment for deported person living in the accommodation in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clause 1, Article 12 of Decree 65/2020/ND-CP stipulating the regulations on medical examination and treatment for persons in stay as follows:

1. A sick or injured person in stay may receive medical examination and treatment at the health facility of the accommodation establishment. A person in stay whose serious illness is beyond the medical treatment capacity of accommodation establishment may be referred to superior health facility, which is a hospital of district, province or military zone for treatment.  The meal, medicine dispensation, and nutrition regime for such person shall be prescribed by the health facility based on his/her pathological signs and severity of the illness; Monthly medicine expenses for each person in stay are equivalent to 3 kg of ordinary rice/1 person/1 month. In case an ill person in stay wishes to be referred to an establishment providing on-demand medical examination and treatment, he/she must be permitted by the accommodation establishment and bear all medical examination and treatment expenses by himself/herself.

The accommodation establishment must notify the criminal enforcement agency of province where it is based of the referral of the person in stay to the superior health facility in order to notify the authorities in clause 1 Article 5 and relatives and legal representatives in Vietnam of that person (if any).

The cost incurred in medical examination and treatment for the person in stay shall be covered by the state. If the medical treatment of the person in stay requires high techniques and expenses which exceed medical treatment expense norms prescribed for him/her, he/she must bear these expenses by himself/herself.

So in the case you mentioned in Vietnam, when the limit is exceeded, the resident has to pay for the medical examination and treatment costs himself.

When people in the accommodation in Vietnam get sick, who should I contact?

In Clause 1, Article 5 of Decree 65/2020/ND-CP, actions against persons in stay violating internal regulations of accommodation establishment as follows:

1. If a person in stay violates internal regulations of the accommodation establishment, protests or refuses to observe instructions of an accommodation establishment officer, a record on such violation must be taken with confirmation of a witness and the accommodation establishment officer shall, dependent on nature and severity of the violation, explain regulations and laws on management and regimes for persons in stay to the violator and require him/her to observe the internal regulations or instructions; where appropriate, the accommodation establishment officer shall use permitted measures by law to force and isolate the violator in a separate room, suppress the protest, prevent the violator from escaping, hurting himself/herself, other persons in stay or accommodation establishment officers, or doing deliberate damage to the assets of the accommodation establishment. The head of accommodation establishment shall decide the duration for which the violator has been kept in a separate room.

After that, the accommodation establishment shall promptly notify the criminal enforcement agency affiliated to the police department of province where the accommodation establishment is based in order for that criminal enforcement agency to notify the criminal enforcement agency of province which prepared the judgment execution dossier or the sentencing court (if the violator has been serving an expulsion sentence) or Immigration Department or Director of police department of province which filed a request for expulsion (if the violator has been facing an administrative penalty as deportation) for cooperation, handling and notice to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs so as to notify the diplomatic missions, consular offices of the country of which that violator is a national or representative office of an international organization in Vietnam where he or she works; and the criminal enforcement agency of province where the accommodation establishment is based shall notify the violator’s relatives and legal representatives who are living in Vietnam (if any) for cooperative encouragement, education and management of the violator.

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