In 2014, under a program initiated by the Ho Chi Minh city Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP), 2,000 initial medical insurance cards have been distributed people designated as impoverished or nearly impoverished, as part of 18,500 cards to be provided this year.
Medical insurance cards given to poor people in District 12, Ho Chi Minh city (Photo: Dan tri newspaper)
According to Tran Huu Tam, SAPP Vice Permanent President, a majority of the 2,000 initial receivers were common and seasonal labourers and elderly labourers who find it very difficulty to earn a livelihood. Therefore, the medical insurance cards play an important role to assist them in treating chronic or serious diseases.
Mr. Tam said that the program to provide medical insurance cards for the poor had been carried out over the past 17 years. The program attracted great participation from domestic and foreign enterprises, benefiting hundreds of thousands of impoverished people in the city.
The longest term sponsor is SAPP’s branch at Kinh Do Company, and this year, a Korean enterprise has become a new sponsor of the program, according to Mr. Tam. Apart from the medical insurance card program, the branch has gone contributed to other social programs, such as providing healthcare for the poor, giving heart surgeries to children and eye surgeries for the blind. “As of late 2013, there have been over 400,000 surgeries in the program to give eye surgeries for the poor alone,” said Mr. Tam./.
Đăng ký: VietNam News