VOV.VN - Vietnam will gradually provide its citizens with free annual health checkups from 2026 to 2030, toward the ultimate goal of universal free health care by 2045, said Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan at a Government press briefing in Hanoi on May 6.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam has emphasised that improving people’s lives is one of the key tasks in Vietnam’s development strategy, and in the coming years the country will strive to provide annual health check-ups for all citizens.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Laos are scheduled to hold the second border defense friendship exchange on October 22-23 in Moc Chau district of Vietnam and Sop Bao district of Laos, a press briefing heard in Hanoi on October 15.

About 500 Cambodian people and those of the Vietnamese origin in Borebo district, Cambodia's Kampong Chhnang province, received free health check-ups and medicine on March 18.

VOV.VN - The Dien Bien provincial Border Guard Command in collaboration with local authorities have held a border spring programme to support people in need to have a joyful Lunar New Year Festival.

More than 4.8 million Hanoi residents had their health insurance cards integrated into their chip-based ID cards as of December 26, of which 271,000 people have put them into use.

Doctors of the Level-2 Field Hospital No. 4 of Vietnam in South Sudan have provided free health checkups to locals and supported the Bentiu General Hospital in overcoming consequences of flooding.

A delegation of Ho Chi Minh City's Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs on June 4 provided free health check-ups and medicines for impoverished overseas Vietnamese and Lao people in Vientiane.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception in Hanoi on January 27 for Chairman of Japan’s Health Sciences Education Co. Ltd in Vietnam Dr. Kusumi Mari.

More than 100 Vietnamese and Lao military doctors provided health checkup for over 2,000 border residents of the two countries from December 5-8.