Hanoi sees strong surge in health insurance coverage

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Hanoi (VNA) –
Nearly 83 percent of Hanoi’s population joined voluntary health insurance, soaring
from 63 percent in 2012, said Nguyen Duc Hoa, Deputy Director of the municipal
Social Insurance Agency on April 18.

According to Hoa, the
outcome was attributed to many localities’ creative and effective measures. For
example, Party members encouraged their relatives to join health and social
insurance. Each commune or ward set a target of having at least 1,000 health
insurance holders and the figure is more than 1,500 people for a new-style
rural commune.

The agency has planned to increase interdisciplinary and specialised
inspections in late 2017, as well as publish information regarding health and
on the city’s portal, aiming to protect rights of local workers.

Vietnam has set to have at least 90 percent of its
population covered with health insurance by 2020 with some localities assigned
to increase their health insurance holders to nearly 100 percent.

covered 81.7 percent of Vietnam’s population in 2016, 2.7
percent higher than the target set by the Prime Minister, according to the
Vietnam Social Security.-VNA