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<table><tbody><tr><td class="tintop_title" align="left" valign="top">Type A/H5N1 patients may receive hospital fee exemptions</td></tr><tr><td class="news_date" align="left" height="20" valign="top">15:36' 02/08/2007 (GMT+7) </td></tr><tr><td class="text" align="left" valign="top"> <table class="" fck_template="imagecontener" align="right" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="200"> <tbody> <tr> <td>
</td></tr> <tr> <td class="image_desc" align="center">A type A/H5N1 patient</td></tr></tbody></table>VietNamNet Bridge ? Expenditures for the treatment of type A/H5N1 patients may reach hundreds of million dong but those patients may possibly be exempted from paying treatment fees.
Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Head of the Preventive Health Agency, said that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance were compiling a decree on the exemption and reduction of hospital bills for some kinds of patients at public hospitals. Accordingly, patients with extremely dangerous diseases like SARS and type A/H5N1 flu would be exempted from hospital fees.
Currently, hospital fees for type A/H5N1 patients are very high, for example VND200 million (US$12,500) for a patient named Ha Van Nguyen at the National Hospital for Contagious and Tropical Diseases from late May to early July. Meanwhile, most flu patients are poor.
Some other kinds of patients will be also be subject to this decree, including victims of other diseases such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, leprosy, tuberculosis, victims of natural disasters, disabled people, orphans or elderly people without any source of income or not having relatives and children under six years old.
Hospital fees will be reduced by at most 50% for children of 6-16 years old who catch serious diseases and have to use hi-tech and costly health services and whose families can?t afford to pay and poor patients suffering from heavy diseases.
(Source: VNE)
Type A/H5N1 patients may receive hospital fee exemptions
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Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Head of the Preventive Health Agency, said that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance were compiling a decree on the exemption and reduction of hospital bills for some kinds of patients at public hospitals. Accordingly, patients with extremely dangerous diseases like SARS and type A/H5N1 flu would be exempted from hospital fees.
Currently, hospital fees for type A/H5N1 patients are very high, for example VND200 million (US$12,500) for a patient named Ha Van Nguyen at the National Hospital for Contagious and Tropical Diseases from late May to early July. Meanwhile, most flu patients are poor.
Some other kinds of patients will be also be subject to this decree, including victims of other diseases such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, leprosy, tuberculosis, victims of natural disasters, disabled people, orphans or elderly people without any source of income or not having relatives and children under six years old.
Hospital fees will be reduced by at most 50% for children of 6-16 years old who catch serious diseases and have to use hi-tech and costly health services and whose families can?t afford to pay and poor patients suffering from heavy diseases.
(Source: VNE)
Type A/H5N1 patients may receive hospital fee exemptions
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