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Hanoi sees strong surge in health insurance coverage

According to Hoa, the outcome was attributed to many localities’ creative and effective measures. For example, Party members encouraged their relatives to join health and social insurance. Each commune or ward set a target of having at least 1,000 health insurance holders and the figure is more than 1,500 people for a new-style rural commune. 

The agency has planned to increase interdisciplinary and specialised inspections in late 2017, as well as publish information regarding health and social insurance on the city’s portal, aiming to protect rights of local workers. 

Vietnam has set to have at least 90 percent of its population covered with health insurance by 2020 with some localities assigned to increase their health insurance holders to nearly 100 percent. 

Health insurance covered 81.7 percent of Vietnam’s population in 2016, 2.7 percent higher than the target set by the Prime Minister, according to the Vietnam Social Security.
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Vietnam, IAEA comprehensively assess national nuclear power infrastructure

Vietnam, IAEA comprehensively assess national nuclear power infrastructure

The delegation, led by Eric Mathet, Operational Lead, the IAEA’s Nuclear Infrastructure Development Section, evaluated the current status of Vietnam’s national nuclear infrastructure according to the assessment criteria outlined by the IAEA for Stage 2 – assessing the readiness of a country to invite bids or negotiate contracts for the construction of its first nuclear power plant.

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