Vietnam: Medical examination and treatment for persons in stay in 2020

According to Article 12 of Decree No. 65/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, medical examination and treatment for persons in stay are prescribed as follows:

- 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 an 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 the province where it is based on 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.

- A pregnant person in stay may, during her pregnancy, receive regular or irregular prenatal check-ups and receive healthcare where necessary; when she is expected to give birth, the accommodation establishment shall take her to the state-run health facility to give birth and supply things necessary for newborn equivalent to the meal regime in 1 month of children under 36 months of age as prescribed in Article 13. After giving birth, if that person in stay wishes to make birth registration for her newborn, the accommodation establishment shall do so as per the law of Vietnam. The cost incurred in healthcare provided for that female during her pregnancy and childbirth at the health facility shall be covered by the state.

Moreover, accommodation establishments shall coordinate with hospitals and criminal judgment enforcement agencies of provincial-level police departments in localities where they are based in managing persons in stay during their medical treatment or child births at hospital.

View more details at: Decree No. 65/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government takes effect from June 15, 2020.

Thu Ba

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