Children under 6 years of age receive free heart surgery

Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee officially issued a document directing HCMC Department of Health, Department of Finance and a number of related units to implement free heart examination and surgery for children under 6 years old.

Children go to see a doctor at Children's Hospital 1 (Photo: SGGP) All children under 6 years old have a household registration in Ho Chi Minh City and KT3 is set up for medical records and transferred to the Heart Institute of Ho Chi Minh City for surgery. be free (from city-level budget).

For patients in other provinces to go to the city for treatment, depending on the contract signing of each province with Ho Chi Minh City, the patient must pay the fee and then take the bill to the local payment or hospital for free before the patient. then pay back to the locality.

If children under 6 years old go to the Heart Institute for treatment, the Department of Health and the Department of Finance are studying the payment mechanism accordingly.

It is known that the average cost of an open heart surgery is currently about 35 million dong. In the city there are about 600 children under 6 years of age with congenital heart disease.

In addition to Heart Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, in June 2007, Children Hospital 1 can open open heart surgery.