Lam Dong resumes free medical screening for 3.2M people
Following a brief suspension, Lam Dong has resumed its province-wide program of free health screenings and periodic medical checkups to provide healthcare services to more than 3.24 million residents throughout 2026.
The program's resumption comes after a brief technical suspension that began on May 15, 2026. Under Decision No. 2445/QD-UBND, signed by Vo Ngoc Hiep, Vice Chairman of the Lam Dong Provincial People’s Committee, the provincial administration has allocated an additional 200 billion VND (approximately $7.85 million) from its contingency budget to fully finance the universal rollout through the end of the year.
A granular breakdown of the newly released funds indicates that over 195.4 billion VND has been earmarked for public medical facilities across the province to cover diagnostic and administrative costs. The remaining 4.6 billion VND has been distributed directly to the People’s Committees of communes, wards, and specialized administrative Zones to manage local logistics and outreach.
The provincial People’s Committee has issued strict directives to ensure transparent, efficient, and rapid disbursement of the funds. Local authorities have been ordered to exercise rigorous financial oversight to eliminate budget leakage, waste, or overlapping coverage with the National Social Insurance Fund .
The free health screening program is expected to cover more than 3.24 million residents across Lam Dong Province and will be implemented in two phases.
During the first phase, scheduled for the first six months of 2026, nearly 1.26 million residents will receive free health examinations. Authorities aim to complete at least 50 percent of the overall program before June 30, 2026.
The second phase, covering the final six months of the year, is expected to provide screenings for approximately 1.98 million additional residents, with the goal of completing the entire program by December 31, 2026.
To ensure the quality of medical services and reduce the risk of overcrowding at regional hospitals, the Lam Dong Department of Health has ordered public clinics and medical centers to categorize demographic cohorts and establish staggered appointment schedules.
According to official guidelines, priority clearance will be granted to state policy beneficiaries, senior citizens, children under the age of six, and ethnic minority groups living in remote and underserved areas.
Local medical centers stepped up operations immediately after the announcement. On Saturday morning, the Don Duong Regional Health Center mobilized teams to schools in the region to provide health checkups and internal medicine examinations for students. At the same time, specialized medical personnel were deployed to Phu Quy Special Administrative Zone to provide chest X-rays and comprehensive screenings for local residents.
Beyond immediate clinical diagnostics, provincial planners are leveraging the mass screening initiative as a critical milestone for Lam Dong's broader digital healthcare transformation.
All clinical findings from the campaign are being systematically digitized into centralized Electronic Health Records. This medical data is integrated into the national VNeID citizen identity application and cross-linked with the country's health insurance database.
Beyond enabling citizens to track their health data and detect illnesses at an early stage, the digitized campaign establishes a long-term, data-driven foundation for regional public health management and disease surveillance.