Decree 313/2026/ND-CP defining functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of Ministry of Health

DECREE

Defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of the Ministry of Health^[1]

Pursuant to Law No. 63/2025/QH15 on Organisation of the Government;

At the proposal of the Minister of Health;

The Government promulgates the Decree defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of the Ministry of Health.

Article 1. Position and functions

The Ministry of Health is an agency of the Government, performing the state management in the fields of disease prevention; medical examination and treatment, functional rehabilitation; medical assessment, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry; mothers and children; population; prevention and control of social evils (except drug addiction treatment and post-drug addiction treatment management); social protection; traditional medicine and pharmacy; pharmaceuticals, cosmetics; food safety; medical equipment; health insurance, and public services in the fields under the Ministry’s state management.

Article 2. Tasks and powers

The Ministry of Health shall perform the tasks and exercise the powers defined in the Law on Organisation of the Government, and the Government’s regulations on the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structures of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, and has the following specific tasks and powers:

1. To submit to the Government draft laws and draft resolutions of the National Assembly, draft ordinances and draft resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee, draft decrees and draft resolutions of the Government; and draft decisions of the Prime Minister in the fields under the Ministry’s state management according to the approved annual law-making programmes and plans, and programmes, projects and schemes as assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister.

2. To submit to the Government and the Prime Minister for approval strategies, master plans, long-term, medium-term and annual development plans, and important national programmes, projects and works; to submit to the Prime Minister drafts of decisions, directives and other documents in the fields under the Ministry’s state management.

3. To promulgate circulars, decisions, directives and other documents on state management regarding the fields under the Ministry’s state management; to promulgate technical regulations, techno-economic norms, norms, criteria, regulations and professional processes in the fields under the Ministry’s state management.

4. To direct, guide and organise the implementation of legal documents, strategies, master plans, plans, national target programmes, programmes, projects and important national works after they are approved; to examine, review, systematise, consolidate, and codify the system of legal documents, organise public communication about and dissemination and education of, and monitor the implementation of, laws in the fields under the Ministry’s state management.

5. Regarding disease prevention:

a/ To manage the monitoring, prevention and control of infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, non-communicable diseases, occupational diseases, accidents and injuries; vaccination; biosafety and biosecurity in medical testing; health quarantine; occupational health, prevention and control of risk factors affecting human health arising from environmental pollution; nutrition in disease prevention; prevention and control of tobacco harms; prevention and control of harms of liquors and beers; quality of clean water for domestic use; and chemicals used in insecticides and disinfectants for household and medical use;

b/ To promulgate, modify and supplement lists of infectious diseases of different groups, the list of infectious diseases requiring vaccination or use of biologicals; to manage vaccination activities and organise mandatory vaccination and mandatory use of biologicals as specified by law;

c/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related ministries and sectors in, promulgating, modifying and supplementing health standards for each type of occupation and job, list of diseases requiring long-term treatment entitled to sickness benefits and list of occupational diseases entitled to social insurance benefits in Viet Nam;

d/ To provide the classification, collection, storage and management of medical wastes within the premises of medical establishments and hygiene in burial and cremation for deaths due to dangerous epidemics, and direct and guide the implementation thereof;

dd/ To organise the surveillance of infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, mental disorders, illnesses of unknown cause, risk factors affecting health, and other public health issues; to early detect infectious diseases causing epidemics; to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related agencies in, providing accurate and timely information on infectious diseases; to carry out civil defence tasks within the Ministry’s competence in accordance with law;

e/ To submit to competent authorities for decision, or to decide according to the Ministry’s competence, the implementation of measures to prevent and control epidemics in accordance with law; to declare information on infectious diseases; to assess risks and issue epidemic warnings; to investigate and handle disease outbreaks and epidemics, and report and provide information on epidemics; to zone off, control, and prevent the spread of diseases, and enforce medical isolation. To examine, urge and support units and localities in organising the implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures; to plan and implement activities in response to public health emergencies;

g/ To guide and organise the implementation of health quarantine activities at border gates; to promptly inform and report on the situation of dangerous infectious diseases and public health issues in the world for proactive prevention and control;

h/ To manage, guide and organise occupational environment monitoring at the workplace, and direct occupational environment monitoring in industrial parks and industrial clusters highly prone to occupational diseases; to assess, control and manage harmful factors at the workplace; to build a database on occupational environment monitoring activities;

i/ To provide guidance on the management of occupational health, health check-ups for workers, occupational disease screening, and management of employees’ health at the workplace; to build a database on occupational diseases; to assume the prime responsibility for managing the issuance of occupational health certificates, first aid training, and emergency care at the workplace in accordance with law;

k/ To direct and guide the control of impacts of environmental pollution on human health;

l/ To direct and guide the assessment of the scope, subjects, and levels of impacts of environmental incidents on human health; to prevent and respond to environmental incidents caused by dangerous infectious diseases; to implement measures to prevent and limit impacts of environmental incidents on human health;

m/ To direct and guide community-based primary health care for people;

n/ To manage and guide biosafety for testing facilities in accordance with law;

o/ To manage the designation of organisations conducting technical regulation conformity certification for tobacco; to issue, suspend, revoke, and re-issue receipts of declarations of conformity with technical regulations for tobacco in accordance with law;

p/ To manage, guide, and organise the implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention and control activities; HIV counseling and testing; and treatment of opium addiction and tobacco addiction treatment.

6. Regarding medical examination and treatment, and functional rehabilitation; medical assessment, forensic medical examination, and forensic psychiatric assessment:

a/ To manage medical examination and treatment, pre-hospital emergency care, blood transfusion safety, nursing, functional rehabilitation, clinical pharmacy, clinical nutrition, and infection control; donation, removal and transplantation of human tissues and organs; medical assessment, forensic medical examination, and forensic psychiatric assessment in accordance with law;

b/ To formulate and submit to competent authorities for approval the master plan on the system of medical examination and treatment establishments; to provide in detail the consideration and grading of medical examination and treatment establishments based on technical and professional capacity;

c/ To manage the issuance, re-issuance, extension and modification of practice licences, suspension of professional practice, revocation of licences for medical examination and treatment practice for people working at medical examination and treatment establishments; to manage the issuance, re-issuance, modify, suspend operation and revoke operation licences for medical examination and treatment establishments; to suspend the operation of other medical examination and treatment establishments nationwide in accordance with law;

d/ To manage the grant of permission for medical examination and treatment establishments to apply new techniques and new methods in accordance with law;

dd/ To manage the advertising of medical examination and treatment services in accordance with law, except the case specified in Point e, Clause 10 of this Article;

e/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related ministries and sectors in, organising medical professional activities in provision of health care for central-level officials according to regulations.

7. Regarding mothers and children:

a/ To formulate strategies, policies, programmes, plans, and national goals on mothers and children;

b/ To manage reproductive health care and child protection services; assisted reproductive technology and altruistic surrogacy for humanitarian purposes;

c/ To guide and organise the implementation of reproductive health counselling and care; counselling, nutrition and health care for mothers and children; prenatal and neonatal counselling, screening, diagnosis and treatment;

d/ To coordinate the exercise of children’s rights; to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related agencies and organisations in, ensuring the exercise of children’s rights, the protection of children and children’s participation in children’s issues;

dd/ To manage the National Child Protection Hotline.

8. Regarding population:

a/ To formulate legal documents, strategies, policies, programmes and plans on population; the system of population targets and indicators; professional regulations on services in the population sector;

b/ To direct and guide the implementation of legal documents, strategies, policies, programmes, plans and professional regulations on population.

9. Regarding social protection:

a/ To formulate policies, programmes and plans on social assistance, social pension allowances, social work, elderly affairs, affairs towards people with disabilities and other social assistances;

b/ To formulate policies, programmes and plans on prostitution prevention and control and support for victims of trafficking and people undergoing procedures for being identified as victims of trafficking;

c/ To promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, and organise the implementation of, legal documents and policies on emergency social assistance in overcoming the consequences of disasters, catastrophes, epidemics or other force majeure events;

d/ To direct, guide and organise the implementation of policies and laws on social assistance, social pension allowances, support for funeral expenses, nurturing and caring for the elderly, people with disabilities and children in care facilities and the community;

dd/ To direct, guide and organise the implementation of regulations on management and operation of care facilities for the elderly, people with disabilities, children, and social assistance facilities; to issue professional and technical guidance for care service provision facilities;

e/ To guide and organise the implementation of legal documents, policies, programmes and plans on social assistance, social work, elderly affairs, affairs towards people with disabilities, promotion of the role of the elderly, inclusion support for people with disabilities, prostitution prevention and combat, and human trafficking prevention and control;

g/ To guide the screening for signs of labour trafficking; to guide and organise the implementation of medical and psychological support measures for victims, people undergoing procedures for being identified as victims of trafficking and support for trafficking victims to integrate into the community;

h/ To direct and guide the integration of contents on human trafficking prevention and control into programmes on prevention and combat of social evils and protection of children, programmes for women’s advancement and other programmes on socio-economic development.

10. Regarding traditional medicine and pharmacy:

a/ To formulate and promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, professional regulations on traditional medicine and pharmacy;

b/ To formulate, and submit to competent authorities for promulgation, mechanisms and policies on takeover, preservation, development and modernisation of traditional medicine and pharmacy; development of medicinal plant cultivation areas and combination of traditional medicine and pharmacy with modern medicine;

c/ To formulate and promulgate a list of precious, rare, and endemic medicinal species and varieties subject to control; to organise the implementation of measures to conserve, exploit, and use medicinal resources rationally and sustainably;

d/ To manage the issuance, re-issuance, extension, modification and revocation licences for medical examination and treatment practice by traditional medicine; to manage the issuance, re-issuance, extension, modification and revocation operation licences for establishments providing examination and treatment using traditional medicine in accordance with law;

dd/ To manage the issuance, extension, change, supplementation and revocation of certificates of registration for circulation of medicinal materials and traditional medicines in accordance with law; to issue, re-issue, modify and revoke certificates of eligibility for trading in pharmaceuticals for establishments trading in medicinal materials and traditional medicines; certificates of compliance with Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP) standards for medicinal materials under the Ministry’s management in accordance with law;

e/ To manage the advertising of the services of providing medical examination and treatment using traditional medicine; to manage the issuance of letters of confirmation of advertising contents of traditional medicines and adjustment of advertising contents of traditional medicines in accordance with law.

11. Regarding pharmaceuticals and cosmetics:

a/ To formulate and promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, professional regulations and technical regulations on pharmaceuticals and cosmetics; and national standards on drugs; to promulgate and update the Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia and the Vietnamese National Drug Formulary;

b/ To formulate and promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, a list of drugs and drug materials subject to special control; a list of orphan drugs; a list of essential drugs; a list of drugs subject to bidding; a list of drugs subject to centralised bidding; and a list of drugs subject to price negotiation; to declare a list of non-prescription drugs;

c/ To manage the issuance, extension, change, modification, supplementation and revocation of certificates of registration for circulation of drugs and drug materials; to issue certificates of pharmaceutical products; licences for import and export of drugs, drug materials, and packaging in direct contact with drugs in accordance with law and in conformity with international practices;

d/ To manage the issuance, extension, adjustment, modification, supplementation and revocation of pharmaceutical practice certificates through examination, certificates of eligibility for pharmaceutical business, good practice certificates for drug and drug material production and trading establishments in accordance with law and in conformity with international practices. To announce the list of drug and drug material production and trading establishments; foreign drug and drug material preservation service establishments registered to supply drugs and drug materials to Viet Nam; to assess foreign drug and drug material production establishments’ compliance with good manufacturing practices when registering drugs and drug materials for circulation in Viet Nam in accordance with law;

dd/ To issue and revoke receipt numbers of declarations of imported cosmetic products; to approve changes to the information announced on the declarations of cosmetic products; to issue, re-issue, adjust and revoke certificates of establishments meeting cosmetic good manufacturing practices (CGMP) standards in accordance with law;

e/ To manage the quality of drugs, drug materials and cosmetics; to decide on the suspension of circulation and recall of drugs, drug materials and cosmetics in accordance with law; to coordinate with related agencies in preventing and controlling acts of manufacturing and circulating fake, poor-quality, and unknown-origin drugs, drug materials and cosmetics, and preventing and controlling the smuggling of drugs, drug materials and cosmetics in accordance with law;

g/ To organise the drug information and pharmacovigilance system; to manage and implement drug information and drug advertising in accordance with law;

h/ To guide the implementation of drug bidding for disease prevention, and medical examination and treatment activities funded by the state budget, the health insurance fund and other lawful revenue sources in medical establishments; to organise centralised procurement of drugs at the national level and assume the prime responsibility for drug price negotiations in accordance with law.

12. Regarding medical equipment and medical works:

a/ To formulate and promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, strategies, policies and plans on medical equipment;

b/ To promulgate detailed regulations guiding the standards and norms for the use of specialised machinery and equipment in the field of healthcare under the Ministry’s state management.

c/ To manage the issuance, suspension and revocation of medical equipment circulation numbers; to issue and revoke certificates of free sale for medical equipment in accordance with law; to publicise the list of medical equipment whose circulation numbers have been revoked;

d/ To manage the issuance, additional issuance, modification and revocation of certificates of registration for medical equipment inspection under the Ministry’s management as assigned in accordance with law;

dd/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related agencies in, directing, guiding and organising the implementation of legal documents, national standards and technical regulations in the field of medical equipment;

e/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related agencies in, formulating and promulgating technical regulations and specific regulations on standards and norms for use of non-business works in the field of health in accordance with law and the Ministry’s competence as assigned.

g/ To manage the advertising of medical equipment in accordance with law.

13. Regarding food safety:

a/ To assume the prime responsibility for formulating and promulgating regulations on safety limits for product groups at the proposal of line ministries; to promulgate a list of additives and processing aids permitted for use in food;

b/ To formulate, and submit to competent authorities for promulgation, regulations on conditions for assurance of food safety applicable to establishments producing or trading in food and food products under the Ministry’s management as assigned, and catering service and street food establishments;

c/ To assume the prime responsibility for implementing communication about, and dissemination of knowledge and education of the law on food safety under the Ministry’s management;

d/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related ministries and sectors in, developing a food safety incident warning system; to specify the reporting of food safety incidents; to organise the monitoring, risk analysis, prevention, investigation and coordination to prevent food poisoning, and handle food safety incidents under the Ministry’s management;

dd/ To manage food safety under the Ministry’s management in accordance with the law on food safety;

e/ To manage the issuance and revocation of written receipts of registration for food and food product declarations under the Ministry’s management as assigned; to manage advertising contents of food products in the fields under the Ministry’s management in accordance with law;

g/ To manage the issuance and revocation of food safety eligibility certificates for establishments producing or trading in food and food products under the Ministry’s management as assigned; to manage the issuance and revocation of certificates of establishments meeting food safety conditions and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements with regard to health supplements in accordance with law;

h/ To manage the designation, re-designation, suspension, and revocation of decisions on designation of, reference testing facilities under the Ministry’s management as assigned.

14. Regarding health insurance:

a/ To formulate and promulgate according to its competence, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, policies and laws on health insurance; strategies and overall plans on health insurance development; and solutions to ensure the balance of the health insurance fund;

b/ To promulgate principles and criteria for developing the list of drugs covered by health insurance, principles for making the list of medical equipment and medical technical services covered by health insurance; to promulgate lists of drugs, chemicals, medical equipment and medical technical services covered by health insurance, and provide rates and levels of, and conditions for payment therefor;

c/ To promulgate regulations on application of information technology, digital transformation, and data sharing in the field of health insurance, the interconnection and use of para-clinical test results between health insurance-covered examination and treatment establishments in conformity with professional requirements; to issue and assign codes for shared-use data dictionaries, and establish data standards, formats, connectivity, and electronic data interoperability in the health insurance sector;

d/ To promulgate regulations and provide guidance on registration for health insurance-covered primary healthcare, allocation of health insurance cards to establishments registered to provide health insurance-covered primary healthcare services, transferal of patients among health insurance-covered medical examination and treatment establishments;

dd/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance in, making ad-hoc, periodical or annual reports on the implementation of health insurance regimes and policies, including the management and use of the health insurance fund, which are to be submitted by the Government to the National Assembly;

e/ To direct and guide medical establishments, organisations and individuals in implementing the law on health insurance.

15. Regarding the management of public employees working in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, population and social work:

a/ To provide professional guidance based on professional and operational positions of public employees in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, population, and social work; to provide guidance on staffing quotas in public non-business units in the healthcare sector;

b/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related agencies in, formulating and proposing competent authorities to promulgate, amend and supplement regimes and policies for public employees and employees in the health sector;

c/ To provide detailed regulations on the content, programmes, form and duration of further training for public employees specialised in medicine, pharmacy, population and social work according to the job position-based competency frameworks for public employees specialised in medicine, pharmacy, population and social work and guide and organise the implementation thereof.

16. Regarding training in health disciplines:

a/ To formulate and promulgate according to the Ministry’s competence, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, strategies and plans on training in health disciplines, and particular mechanisms and policies in training in health disciplines, and guide the implementation thereof;

b/ To formulate and promulgate professional qualification standards to serve as a basis for formulating and developing standards applicable to training programmes of health disciplines at all levels;

c/ To formulate and promulgate conditions for quality assurance and standards applicable to programmes for specialised postgraduate training in health disciplines, and update continuous medical knowledge for human resources in the health sector in accordance with law;

d/ To manage specialised postgraduate training and continuous training in health disciplines in accordance with law;  

dd/ To guide, examine and assess according to the Ministry’s competence the implementation of regulations on training in health disciplines; to examine and review the satisfaction of requirements on organisation of practice training applicable to practice facilities of education institutions providing training in health disciplines.

17. Regarding science, technology and innovation in the health sector:

a/ To formulate, and submit to competent authorities for promulgation, mechanisms, policies, strategies and plans on scientific research, technology development and innovation in the fields under the Ministry’s state management;

b/ To manage, guide and carry out biomedical researches on humans, research and development of new methods, techniques, technologies and products in the fields under the Ministry’s management;

c/ To guide and examine the implementation of regulations on performance of science, technology and innovation tasks; to carry out technology transfer and popularise and apply scientific research and technology development outcomes in the fields under the Ministry’s management; to manage and use scientific and technological resources in the fields under the Ministry’s management as assigned;

d/ To organise the implementation of regulations on intellectual property and initiatives under the Ministry’s management;

dd/ To manage the formulation of national standards and technical regulations in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law; to appraise and promulgate technical regulations in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law; to guide, monitor and manage the popularisation and application of national standards and technical regulations in the fields under the Ministry’s state management;

e/ To organise the implementation of agreements on technical barriers to trade (TBT) in the fields under the Ministry’s state management.

18. Regarding information technology application and digital transformation in the health sector:

a/ To formulate and promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, strategies and plans on information technology application and development, e-transactions, information security and digital transformation in the health sector;

b/ To formulate and promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, professional regulations, technical processes on information technology application and development, e-transactions and digital transformation in the fields under the Ministry’s management, and assurance of health information security and safety in the cyber environment;

c/ To formulate, maintain, update, and organise the implementation of, the Ministry’s digital architecture under the National Digital Architecture Framework; to formulate, manage, maintain, update, and ensure security and safety for, national health information systems and databases on healthcare, population and social assistance, and health information systems; to manage, connect and share digital data on health, population and social assistance in accordance with law;

d/ To direct, guide and organise the implementation of, strategies, plans, regulations and technical processes on information technology application and development, artificial intelligence application, digital transformation and e-transactions in the fields under the Ministry’s state management, and assurance of cyber security and safety for health information systems nationwide in accordance with law.

19. To formulate programmes and plans on health communications and education and provision of information about the health sector’s activities and direct, guide, organise and examine the implementation thereof.

20. To perform the state management of public services in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law; to formulate and promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, mechanisms and policies on provision of public non-business services in the fields under the Ministry’s state management; to promulgate techno-economic norms applicable to the State-managed public non-business services; to set quality criteria and standards of public non-business services; to provide mechanisms for supervision, assessment and inspection of the quality of public non-business services and operational efficiency of public non-business units in the fields under the Ministry’s state management.

21. To guide and organise the implementation of regulations on management of prices of services, products and goods in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law.

22. To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related agencies in, carrying out disaster and catastrophe prevention and control, and providing emergency aid and treatment for disaster and catastrophe victims.

23. To formulate, and organise the implementation of, plans on national reserves of medicines, chemicals, medical equipment, and epidemic, disaster and catastrophe prevention and control equipment according to the list of national reserves decided by the Government and in accordance with law.

24. To manage associations and non-governmental organisations operating in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law.

25. To work out, and direct the implementation of, the Ministry’s administrative reform plan in line with objectives and contents of the Government’s overall state administrative reform programme.

26. To undertake international cooperation and international integration in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law. To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with other authorities in, signing international agreements in the name of the Ministry in accordance with law; to assume the prime responsibility for proposing the conclusion and implementation of treaties and international agreements on healthcare under the Ministry’s state management.

27. To manage the organisational apparatus, payroll of civil servants and the number of workers of the Ministry, job positions, structure of civil servant ranks, proportion of public employees allocated by professional title grade for job positions; to decide on rotation, transfer, appointment, relief from duty, removal from office, resignation, dismissal, secondment, commendation, disciplining, termination of employment and  retirement of, and implementation of the salary regime and preferential treatment and training and further training for, cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers under the Ministry’s management in accordance with law.

28. To manage finances and assets assigned to the Ministry and organise the implementation of allocations from the state budget in accordance with law; to manage the National Fund for Vietnamese Children and the Disease Prevention Fund in accordance with law.

29. To examine the performance of functions and tasks, exercise of powers and the implementation of policies and laws by agencies, organisations and individuals under the Ministry’s management; to carry out specialised examination in the fields under the Ministry’s management in accordance with law. To organise prevention and combat of corruption and negative practices; to practice thrift and combat waste; to receive citizens, settle complaints, denunciations and petitions in the fields under the Ministry’s state management; to handle violations or report to competent authorities for handling violations in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law.

30. To formulate and promulgate the system of statistical indicators and reporting regime applicable to the health sector in accordance with law; to collect, synthesise, analyse, manage and archive statistical information on the health sector; to establish a national database of the health sector.

31. To perform other tasks and exercise other powers as assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister and as provided by law.

Article 3. Organisational structure

1. The Department of Health Insurance.

2. The Department of Organisation and Personnel.

3. The Department of Planning and Finance.

4. The Department of Legislation.

5. The Department of International Cooperation.

6. The Ministry’s Office.

7. The Agency of Medical Services Administration.

8. The Agency of Traditional Medicine Administration.

9. The Agency of Drug Administration.

10. The Agency of Food Safety.

11. The Infrastructure and Medical Device Administration.

12. The Agency of Science, Technology and Training.

13. The Viet Nam Population Authority.

14. The Administration of Disease Prevention.

15. The Department of Maternal and Child Health.

16. The Department of Social Assistance.

17. The Health Strategy and Policy Institute.

18. The National Health Information Center.

19. The Health and Lifestyle Newspaper.

The organisations referred to in Clauses 1 thru 16 of this Article are those assisting the Minister in performing the state management functions; the organisations referred to in Clauses 17 thru 19 of this Article are public non-business units serving the state management functions of the Ministry of Health.

The Department of Planning and Finance has 3 divisions.

The Minister of Health shall defines the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structures of organisations and units of the Ministry of Health, and submit to the Prime Minister for promulgation the list of other public non-business units attached to the Ministry of Health under regulations.

Article 4. Effect

1. This Decree takes effect on August 18, 2026.

2. The Government’s Decree No. 42/2025/ND-CP of February 27, 2025, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of the Ministry of Health, ceases to be effective on the effective date of this Decree.

Article 5. Implementation responsibility

Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, and Chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees shall implement this Decree.-

On behalf of the Government
For the Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister
PHAM THI THANH TRA