To strive for 81.3% of population to have health insurance card

ABO - On June 27, the Tien Giang province People's Committee (PPC) held a preliminary conference on the development of participants in health insurance in the first six months of the year, deploying tasks in the last six months of 2018.

Chairman of the PPC Le Van Huong and Deputy Chairman of PPC Tran Thanh Duc presided over the conference.

At the confenrence. Photo: P.MAI.

Up to June 25, the whole province has 1,409,475 people participated in health insurance, an increase of 7,839 people compared to the end of 2017, reaching 79.5% compared to the population of the province. With such a rate, the province needs to have measures to achieve the target of 81.3% according to Decision No. 1167 of the Prime Minister. Accordingly, from now until the end of 2018, about 32,000 new health insurance premiums will be applied.

For new rural communes, there are only 6 new rural communes in the province reached 85% coverage (85% or more required). Two communes reaches 60% or less than of the total as Trung An (My Tho city) reached 56.1% and Tan Trung commune (Go Cong town) reached 57.6%.

Chairman of the PPC Le Van Huong speaks at the conference. Photo: P. MAI.

At the meeting, delegates analyzed the causes of difficulties in mobilizing people to buy health insurance; at the same time, proposed solutions to remove for each target group to increase the proportion of people participating in health insurance in the coming time.

Chairman of the PPC Le Van Huong and Deputy Chairman of the PPC Tran Thanh Duc said that the leaders of branches and localities should take the initiative directly to each household and each object to mobilize; For the education sector, it is necessary to achieve 100%; to support for middle-income people, objects just escaped poverty.

The health sector needs to commit to people's attitudes toward health insurance through health insurance; new rural communes should promote the propaganda and mobilize people to participate in health insurance.

By P.MAI – Translated by HUU CHI