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This is one of the key targets set in the social and labour healthcare development project being drafted by MOLISA.

MOLISA is managing more than 600 social medical facilities including nine hospitals and orthopaedic and rehabilitation centres, 50 nursing centres for war invalids and national devotees, 415 social assistance centres and 123 drug rehabilitation facilities.

Those facilities offer monthly care and nursing for more than 750,000 people including seriously wounded soldiers and millions of national devotees.

The centres also help more than 240,000 drug addicts with treatment and rehabilitation.

They provide facilities, tools, wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs to perform orthopaedic, rehabilitation, and offer social services to assist millions of people every year.

However, the quality of care, nursing work, orthopaedic and rehabilitation for vulnerable groups has not met the requirements due to outdated infrastructure, low capacity of medical staff, a lack of management on occupational accidents and diseases.

The need for healthcare and functional rehabilitation has increased among those suffering from consequences of wars, negative impacts of climate change, natural disasters, epidemics, labour accidents, traffic accidents, social evils and an aging population.

Among those in need are 11.7 million old people, 6.2 million people with disabilities over five years old, about 2.75 per cent of poor households, 3.5 per cent of near-poor households, about 8.8 million national devotees and their relatives.

About 1.5 million children living under special circumstances, as many as 234,000 HIV-infected people, 240,000 drug addicts and about 30,000 victims of domestic violence are waiting for assistance.

In addition, many women and children who were abused, trafficked or making a living on the streets are also in a dire need of care.

In order to offer assistance to those groups, MOLISA has drafted a project on developing social and labour healthcare with a vision towards 2030 with an aim to improve the capacity of social protection centres.

According to the draft, 30 per cent of nursing centres for war invalids and national devotees, social support centres, drug addiction treatment facilities are expected to be eligible for medical examination and treatment using health insurance funds by 2025.

These facilities are expected to be able to perform at least 80 per cent of commune-level services by 2025. It aims to have 80 per cent of people being cared for at the centres and labourers at industrial parks to have online medical records.

By 2030, the health insurance funds will cover medical costs at all orthopaedic and rehabilitation centres and at 50 per cent of nursing centres for war invalids and national devotees, social support centres and drug addiction treatment facilities.

It aims to have 90 per cent of people being cared for at the centres and labourers at industrial parks to have online medical records by 2030./.