RESOLUTION

ON SOME SPECIAL MECHANISMS AND POLICIES THAT CREATE BREAKTHROUGH IN PROTECTING, CARING FOR, AND IMPROVING PEOPLE’S HEALTH

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Based on the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam amended by Resolution No. 203/2025/QH15;

Based on the Law on the Organization of the National Assembly No. 57/2014/QH13 amended by Law No. 65/2020/QH14 and Law No. 62/2025/QH15;

Based on the Law on the issuance of legislative documents No. 64/2025/QH15 amended by Law No. 87/2025/QH15.

HEREBY RESOLVES:

Article 1. Scope

This Resolution provides for some special mechanisms and policies that create breakthrough in protecting, caring for, and improving people’s health.

Article 2. Expansion of healthcare benefits and reduction of medical costs for the people

1. Increase the rate and level of payment for medical costs covered by health insurance; expenses for screening, diagnosis, and early treatment of certain diseases and priority groups from the Health Insurance Fund according to a roadmap suitable to the country’s socio-economic development conditions, the balancing capacity of the state budget, the Health Insurance Fund, and the increase in health insurance premiums as follows:

a) Health insurance participants belonging to near-poverty households and elderly people aged 75 and over who are receiving social retirement benefits shall be entitled to 100% coverage of medical costs within the scope covered by health insurance;

b) Increase the coverage rate of health insurance for social policy beneficiaries, vulnerable groups, low-income people, and some other prioritized groups who are health insurance participants;

c) The Health Insurance Fund shall pay for screening, diagnosis, and early treatment of certain diseases.

2. Implement a policy for exemption of basic hospital fee within the entitlement scope of health insurance participants, according to a roadmap suitable to the country’s socio-economic development conditions, the balancing capacity of the Health Insurance Fund, and the increase in health insurance premiums.

3. Organize pilot programs to diversify health insurance packages, diversify types of health insurance service provision, and implement supplementary health insurance provided by insurance enterprises according to the demand of the people when conditions permit.

4. The Government shall provide for the following contents:

a) Subjects and roadmap for increasing the benefit level within the entitlement scope of health insurance participants as specified in point b of Clause 1 of this Article; the list of diseases and roadmap for implementation as specified in point c of Clause 1 of this Article, in line with the increase in health insurance premiums from 2027. Regulation specified in this clause shall be issued and take effect simultaneously with the regulations on increasing health insurance premiums from 2027;

b) The scope and roadmap for implementing hospital fee exemptions as specified in Clause 2 of this Article from 2030;

c) The pilot implementation of the contents specified in Clause 3 of this Article.

5. The Minister of Health shall provide guidance on the implementation of contents within their authority in accordance with health insurance laws.

Article 3. Policies and benefits regarding salary and allowances for healthcare worker

1. Medical doctors, traditional medicine doctors, dentists, preventive medicine doctors, and pharmacists shall be salaried from grade 2 upon recruitment into the corresponding professional titles until new salary regulations are issued.

2. Persons who regularly and directly perform medical professional tasks in the fields of psychiatry, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, emergency resuscitation, and pathological anatomy shall receive a 100% job-based incentive allowance.

3. Persons who regularly and directly perform medical professional tasks at commune-level health stations and preventive health facilities shall receive job-based incentive allowances as follows:

a) 100% for areas inhabited by ethnic minorities and mountainous regions, areas with disadvantaged socio-economic conditions, areas with extremely disadvantaged socio-economic conditions, border areas, and islands;

b) At least 70% for cases not specified in point a of this Clause.

4. The Government shall elaborate Clauses 2 and 3 of this Article in accordance with the country’s socio-economic development conditions.

Article 4. Safety assurance for healthcare workers

Persons who infringe on body, health, or life, or insult the honor and dignity of on-duty healthcare workers shall be subject to the following regulations:

1. Depending on the nature and severity of the violation, such persons shall be subject to disciplinary action, administrative penalties, or criminal prosecution; if causing damage, they must recompense according to the law.

2. They must publicly apologize via mass media, or at their residence, workplace, or the healthcare facility where the healthcare worker works.

Article 5. Recruitment in the health sector

1. The requirement for working experience as prescribed by the laws on public employees shall not apply when recruiting persons to become public employees at commune-level health stations if they meet the following conditions:

a) Hold a valid medical practicing license suitable for the requirements of the intended position;

b) Provide a written commitment to work at the commune-level health station for at least five years.

2. Persons recruited as public employees under Clause 1 of this Article who fail to work for the five year shall have their contract terminated according to the law on public employees.

Article 6. Land, taxation, and finance in the health sector

1. Forms of attracting social resources in the health sector include:

a) Investment in establishing private healthcare facilities, prioritizing projects developing elderly care facilities, healthcare using traditional medicine methods, medical establishments, pharmaceutical research and production facilities, medical equipment/devices, practical training facilities, and testing facilities;

b) Public – private partnership investments to establish health facilities;

c) Taking out loans to invest in infrastructure and medical equipment;

d) Renting, leasing, leasing-purchasing assets, medical services, non-medical services, pharmacy services, and management and operation of medical establishments;

dd) Purchases by deferred payment or payment in installments; renting, and borrowing of medical equipment/devices;

e) Donations and aids from domestic and foreign organizations and individuals;

g) Other forms as prescribed by law.

2. Provincial People’s Councils shall decide the adjustments to approved land use plans without waiting for the next adjustment cycle to allocate land for healthcare investment projects. Land repurposing, land allocation, and land lease for these projects shall follow a simplified procedure prescribed by the Government.

3. Provincial People’s Committees are responsible for prioritizing sufficient land bank for the healthcare system in provincial planning, land use planning and plans, and for prioritizing allocation of land bank managed by agencies and organizations assigned by the State, and surplus public buildings to attract health investment projects; allowing organizations and individuals to lease surplus public offices and state-owned facilities for healthcare activities.

Use of residential land, land for agency offices, non-healthcare facilities, and non-agricultural production, and business land for healthcare purposes is allowed without having to depend on land use plans. Land converted to land reserved for healthcare purpose shall be entitled to policies of exemption or reduction of land use levy, land rent, and land use tax as prescribed by law.

4. Public health facilities and non-profit private health facilities are exempt from corporate income tax.

5. The state budget shall cover concurrent expenditures and investment funding for commune-level health stations.

6. At the end of the fiscal year, for the excess revenue over recurrent expenses covered by funding for which the autonomy to use is delegated to the public administrative unit, after setting aside the Development Fund for public service activities and other funds as prescribed by laws on financial autonomy of public service providers, healthcare facilities shall decide the level of contribution to the fund for supplementation of income for employees in accordance with regulations on internal expenditures and the unit’s performance.

7. Allocation of state budget capital for investment activities is prioritized to enhance the capacity to serve state inspection and testing activities.

8. The Government shall elaborate this Article.

Article 7. Digital transformation and international cooperation in health sector

1. The State prioritizes investment in developing a national healthcare database, digital infrastructure, and common and interconnected platform. The State encourages enterprises to make public-private partnership investment and develop digital healthcare products and services.

2. The Ministry of Health, its subordinate/affiliated units, and public health facilities may independently organize international conferences and workshops on medical specialties and urgent topics requested by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), National Assembly, and Government; Prior to organizing, notifications must be sent as follows: The Ministry of Health shall notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security; subordinate/affiliated units and public health facilities shall notify their direct managing authorities.

If international conferences or workshops involve participation by ministers or higher-level officials from countries, territories, or international organizations, or if the topics involve issues of borders, territory, national sovereignty, security, defense, ethnicity, religion, human rights, or falling within the scope of state secrets, they must comply with laws on managing international conferences and workshops in Vietnam and laws on state secret protection.

Article 8. Implementation

1. The Government shall provide the guidance on the implementation of this Resolution; annually report to the National Assembly on the implementation results in the socio-economic report.

2. The Ministry of Health shall be the focal agency, be accountable to the Government, take charge and cooperate with ministries, ministerial agencies, government agencies, and provincial People’s Committees in providing guidance, monitoring, urging, inspecting, reviewing, and assessing the implementation of the Resolution.

3. Local governments at provincial level are responsible for implementing solutions so that at least one hospital in their area achieves specialized level, or there is a geriatric hospital or a general hospital with a geriatric specialty in their area.

4. The National Assembly, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Ethnic Council, the National Assembly Committees, the National Assembly delegations, National Assembly deputies, the People’s Councils, the Committees of the People’s Councils, People’s Council deputies, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations, within their jurisdiction, shall supervise the implementation of this Resolution.

Article 9. Effect

1. This Resolution comes into force from January 1, 2026, except for the regulations in Clause 2 of this Article.

2. Regulations in Clause 2 of Article 2 hereof shall come into force from January 1, 2030

3. If there are different provisions on the same matter between this Resolution and other laws or resolutions of the National Assembly, the provisions of this Resolution shall apply, except as provided in Clause 4 of this Article.

4. If laws or resolutions of the National Assembly enacted after this Resolution provide more preferential or favorable incentives than those in this Resolution, the more preferential or favorable incentives shall apply.

5. From the effective date of this Resolution, medical doctors, traditional medicine doctors, dentists, preventive medicine doctors, and pharmacists who have been recruited and currently receiving salary at grade 1 shall now be entitled to salary at grade 2.

This Resolution was ratified at the 10th Session by the 15th National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on December 11, 2025.