At the press conference to announce the Acting President’s order to promulgate the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment. (Photo: VNA)The revised law aimsto deal with shortcomings and emerging problems in medical examination andtreatment activities in a bid to develop and improve the quality of medical services towardsfairness, high efficiency, development and international integration, whilestrengthening State management over these activities.
The law comprises 12chapters and 121 articles, with many new contents, including those on theimprovement of medical practitioners’ professional quality and the servicequality of medical facilities, the increase of people’s access to health careservices, and the renovation of regulations related to conditions to ensure theimplementation of medical examination and treatment activities.
Particularly, in order to increase people’s access to medical examination andtreatment services, the law changes the organisational system of medical examinationand treatment establishments from four levels previously to three.
Under the law, private general clinics in areas with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions areallowed to arrange hospital beds for patient monitoring and treatment for amaximum of 72 hours.
At the same time, telemedicine activities will be promoted with the hope of achieving universal health coverage by improvingpatients' access to quality, cost-effective healthcare services at anytime andanywhere, especially for less serious and chronic diseases that requirelong-term and regular care./.
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