Hoàng Đình CảnhHoàng Đình Cảnh, deputy director of the Department of HIV-AIDS Prevention and Control, talks to the newspaper Kinh tế&Đô thị (Economics and Urban Affairs) about the scheme to expand health insurance to cover HIV-AIDS patients. Last but not least, many AIDS patients don’t have the personal documents required for joining the health insurance scheme. The Department of HIV-AIDS Prevention and Control has decided to use funding from international organisations to buy health insurance cards for poor and needy HIV-AIDS patients. By the end of May, some 79.6 percent of HIV treatment facilities affiliated with hospitals or healthcare centres had signed service agreements with the health insurance companies, and 44.4 percent of the health facilities nationwide had offered their services to HIV carriers with health insurance cards. In addition, these health facilities are required to have permits to treat this group of people as a pre-requisite for financial settlement with the health insurance companies.

Source: Viet Nam News August 09, 2017 02:54 UTC