More than 56,500 people participate in voluntary social insurance and household-based health insurance following the launch on Vietnam Health Insurance Day

20/07/2022 09:53 AM


Responding to Vietnam Health Insurance Day (July 1), last weekend, social security agencies of provinces and centrally-run cities coordinated with post offices nationwide to organize a launching ceremony to communicate and mobilize people to participate in voluntary social insurance and household-based health insurance, which achieved positive results.

Through the launching ceremony, localities have developed 56,572 participants of voluntary social insurance and household-based health insurance, of which the number of voluntary social insurance participants is 15,427 people, and the number of household-based health insurance participants is 41,145 people. Some provinces have achieved outstanding results in the development of household-based health insurance participants such as: Ho Chi Minh City (3,142 people); Tien Giang (2,167 people); Thanh Hoa (2,718 people); etc.

Some images of the HCMC Social Security Office - the locality that developed the highest number of participants after the launch.

The provinces have organized about 6,250 communication teams, providing direct consultations to markets, trade centers, production facilities, etc., combined with distributing thousands of media publications (the brochure “Things to know about voluntary social insurance”, “Benefits of participating in voluntary social, health insurance”, “Things to know about household health insurance”). Thereby, it could directly approach, propagate and mobilize about 151,213 people.

The launching ceremony to respond to Vietnam Health Insurance Day - July 1 - communicating and mobilizing people to participate in voluntary social insurance and household-based health insurance with the theme "Health insurance - for the health and happiness of all families" has created momentum and movement for civil servants, officials and employees of the social insurance industry to join hands to promote the propagation and dissemination of policies on social and health insurance in general and voluntary social insurance and household-based health insurance in particular to all people, contributing to ensuring social security in the area. This ceremony has promoted the role of the social security agency, the Post Office and the system of organizing the collection of social and health insurance premiums at all levels in the combination of various forms of communication: mobile communication; direct consultation at central markets, residential areas, households, etc.; organization of direct policy consultation conferences indensely populated areas, etc.

Illustrative image (internet)

The communication activities were organized synchronously from province to district during the Launching Ceremony, which has created a strong emphasis on the communication of policies and laws on social and health insurance of the whole industry in general and social security agencies of provinces in particular in order to gain the attention of all classes of people to social and health insurance policies. The process of taking place the event ensures the safety of people and vehicles on the parade routes, strictly complying with regulations on Covid-19 epidemic prevention. The ceremony was held successfully and achieved very encouraging results. This is a vivid demonstration, showing the actual effectiveness of this form of communication, contributing to further affirming the pivotal role in the social security system of social and health insurance policies, creating a widespread belief of the people in the State's social security policy./.

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