Patients to be compensated if vaccines fail or do harm
People receiving vaccines through the free national immunisation programme will be compensated if the immunisation fails or causes serious side effects.
People receiving vaccines through the free national immunisation programme will be compensated if the immunisation fails or causes serious side effects.
ꦐ This is the first time this sort of compensation will be given in the Decree on Immunisation. The Ministry of Health (MOH) is researching and compiling a new version of the decree.
Associate Professor Tran Dac Phu, Director of the Preventive Medicine Department under MOH, said that people receiving the compensation included those who needed to be treated for serious side effects after being injected with the vaccine and those who died after injection.
Depending on the level of injury, the person could receive between 1.05 million VND and 31.5 million VND (48 USD and 1,400 USD) under the decree, which should be approved by the start of next year.
If they died, their families would receive 10.5 million VND (500 USD) for funeral expenses.
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♍ Director Phu said all fatalities after vaccination had been studied by professional councils, which had always found that the fatalities were not related to the vaccinations.-VNA
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