Vietnam: Are drugs for treatment of gout covered by health insurance?
Under Section 2.2, Appendix 01, Circular 30/2018/TT-BYT stipulating the list of modern medicines and biologicals covered by health insurance in Vietnam:
No. |
Name (Vietnamese name) of active ingredients |
Administration route |
Class of hospital |
Notes |
|
|
|||
|
2.2. Drugs for treatment of gout |
|
|
||||||
76 |
Allopurinol |
Oral administration |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
|
77 |
Colchicin |
Oral administration |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
|
78 |
Probenecid |
Oral administration |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Thus, the drugs for treatment of gout listed above will be covered by health insurance in Vietnam. Since you have not provided complete information about the types of drugs your father is using, you can compare your father’s specific case with the regulation above.
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