Tran Van Tuan, Vice Minister of Health and Chairman of the National Medical Commission, delivered a document on strengthening emergency medical care and health examination and treatment during the Lunar New Year holiday of the Year of the Horse in 2026 to the directors of hospitals under the Ministry of Health, the directors of health departments of provinces and central municipalities, and heads of health departments of various ministries and agencies.
We request expanded emergency medical services and health screening/treatment during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Specifically, these are the Party Central Committee Directive No. 55-CT/TW for the 2026 Year of the Horse Lunar New Year Celebration, the Prime Minister’s Directive No. 36/CT-TTg on holding the 2026 Horse Year Lunar New Year in an enjoyable, healthy, safe and economical manner, and the Minister of Health Directive No. 03/CT-BYT dated January 28, 2026 (Health Affairs for Safely Holding the 2026 Horse Year Lunar New Year Celebration) (includes implementation of reinforcement).
At the same time, in order to provide effective emergency medical care and examination and treatment to the people during the Lunar New Year holiday, the Ministry of Health requests the directors of hospitals under the Ministry of Health, the directors of health departments of each province and central municipality, and the heads of each ministry and affiliated health department to instruct medical examination and treatment facilities to implement a four-level emergency response system 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The four-level emergency response system consists of command center emergency response (hotline information processing), professional medical emergency response, administrative and logistics emergency response, and safety and self-defense emergency response.
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The Ministry of Health requires each department and ward to post a list of staff on duty, while effectively organizing the hospitalization, first aid and treatment of patients. To this end, sufficient manpower, medicines, blood and blood products, intravenous fluids, consumables, chemicals, medical equipment, and medical oxygen must be secured in advance, and hospital beds and facilities must be prepared for hospitalization, treatment, and emergency treatment, especially for patients with traffic accidents, fires, injuries, and food poisoning.
Medical facilities can quickly admit and treat infectious diseases common in the winter and spring, reducing serious complications and deaths.
Establish response plans for accidents, poisoning incidents, and emergencies involving large-scale loss of life that may occur in the area, and prepare emergency response plans for tourist attractions, performance halls, and event venues that attract large crowds during the Lunar New Year and holiday periods.
Medical institutions visited and organized Lunar New Year celebrations for patients receiving treatment at hospitals during the Lunar New Year holiday.
In addition to their duties, medical staff must organize visits and Lunar New Year events for patients receiving treatment at hospitals during the Lunar New Year period, and must pay special attention to patients who are economically disadvantaged and those receiving social welfare.
Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services requires daily online reporting through the Office of Medical Examinations and Treatment’s online reporting system. Therefore, all medical testing and treatment facilities with inpatient beds must report daily during the Lunar New Year holiday period. Facilities must log in with their assigned account or a newly registered account to fully update facility information and submit reports.
Reports, available online daily, include emergency data summaries, medical examination and treatment history, and detailed patient lists. Accidents and poisonings that require victim reporting include accidents involving fireworks and fireworks, weapons and homemade explosives, and include details about outpatient care, inpatient treatment, deaths in a health care facility or while in transit to a health care facility, or seriously ill patients requiring discharge. In the case of traffic accidents, reporting of victim lists for outpatient and inpatient treatment is not mandatory, but reporting of deaths or seriously ill patients requiring discharge is mandatory.
The Ministry of Health requests that in case of serious deaths, they be reported separately to the cause of death management subsystem within the medical examination and treatment management portal at cdc.kcb.vn in accordance with the guidelines for recording deaths specified in Decision No. 1996/QD-BYT dated 18 June 2025 and Official Letter No. 24/2020/TT-BYT dated 28 December 2020.
The Ministry of Health requires medical institutions to secure in advance sufficient personnel, medicines, blood and blood products, intravenous fluids, consumables, chemicals, medical devices, and medical oxygen, and to prepare beds and facilities for hospitalization, treatment, and emergency treatment, focusing on traffic accidents, fires, injuries, food poisoning, etc.
The Department of Health also requires medical examination and treatment facilities to designate an on-call staff member, prepare and submit on-call reports to the governing body, and post them on the facility’s website, and the facility director is legally responsible for the accuracy of the reported data.
The Ministry of Health and the health sector are responsible for assigning staff to work each day, publishing rosters of staff on duty for reporting and departmental command, and at the same time directing, supervising and checking the completeness and accuracy of data entered into the online software, especially data relating to deaths and serious injuries resulting from accidents caused by fireworks, homemade explosives and traffic accidents.
The Ministry of Health announced that it will inspect the readiness and operational readiness of hospitals and local hospitals with inpatient beds under the Ministry of Health without prior notice around the Lunar New Year holiday.
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date: 2026-02-08 11:16:00
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