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The situation during the COVID-19 outbreak showed that when the preventive medicine network collapsed, the heavy load fell on the treatment system. At some point, hospitals had to close and were unable to admit new patients as the grassroots preventative healthcare system could not withstand the heavy load.

Lawmakers discussed the draft Law on Mobile Police via videoconference during the second session of the 15th National Assembly on October 26 morning.

More than 42,000 HIV/AIDS patients in Vietnam had received antiretroviral (ARV) drugs covered by the health insurance fund as of the end of October.

Ho Chi Minh City's agencies are increasing inspections of healthcare facilities that abuse the health insurance fund by prescribing needless tests and overcharging.

The National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs continued its meeting on October 3 on the implementation of autonomy at public hospitals.

The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years.

Developing grassroots healthcare to prevent non-infectious diseases is the top task of the health-population target programme for 2016-2020, according to Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.

Several new-generation drugs for hepatitis C treatment will be covered by the health insurance fund as part of a recently-released circular by the Ministry of Health.

The National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee convened its 11th plenary session in the central province of Da Nang on October 9 in preparation for the upcoming sixth meeting of the 14th legislature.

Hanoi’s health insurance fund suffered a deficit of more than 500 billion VND (21.4 million USD) in the first half of this year, said Nguyen Duc Hoa, director of Hanoi Social Insurance.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) and the Danish Embassy on August 21 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to help the VSS improve its health insurance verification staff’s capacity in 2018 and 2019.

Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has reported that many hospitals have been found abusing the health insurance fund in the first six months of this year.

Vietnam’s health insurance fund is forecast to struggle with an enormous deficit of more than 10 trillion VND (434.8 million USD) this year, according to a newly released information from the Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI).

The Japan International Cooperation Agency, Ministry of Health and Vietnam Social Security signed a record on a project to improve the management of health insurance payment in Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City’s health insurance fund recorded a surplus of 680 billion VND (over 30 million USD) in its balance last year.

Vietnam will face a huge budget deficit in health services for people with HIV/AIDS in the next five years, said an official from the HIV/AIDS Prevention Agency.

The overspending of the health insurance fund and measures to prevent abuse of health insurance were the main theme of a teleconference held by the Government e-portal on October 12.