Ho Chi Minh City to offer annual health check-ups to all residents from 2026

Ho Chi Minh City is launching a major initiative to ensure all residents receive annual health check-ups starting in 2026. This program signifies a crucial shift from a disease treatment model to proactive health care, focusing on early detection and management.

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Organizing regular health check-ups for all residents from 2026 is not just a medical program but a major policy with profound social meaning.

Nguyen Phuoc Loc, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, emphasized the program's deep social significance during a conference. He urged local authorities to prioritize this task, ensuring no one, especially vulnerable groups like the elderly and the poor, is missed. The satisfaction and benefit of residents will be the key measure of success.

The city aims to have every resident undergo at least one annual check-up by 2030, with results logged in an electronic health record for lifelong management. This move is expected to improve overall public health and reduce the burden of late-stage disease.

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Ensure no one is missed, especially vulnerable groups such as the elderly, poor households, and those with meritorious services.

In parallel, the city's Health Department signed agreements to provide comprehensive specialized medical support to hospitals and health centers in the former Ba Ria-Vung Tau province. This collaboration aims to bolster emergency care, internal medicine, obstetrics, and other critical services, enhancing healthcare capacity across the region.

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Secretaries and chairpersons of communal and ward People's Committees must be directly responsible for the implementation results, using resident satisfaction and benefits as the measure of effectiveness.