An announcement by the Ministry of Public Health established a policy that foreign workers must have health insurance and must pass a medical examination and take out health insurance to access medical care. The benefits and coverage of health insurance are as follows:

1. Medical treatment and general rehabilitation

• Diagnosis, treatment, medical rehabilitation until the end of treatment, as well as alternative medicine certified by the Board of Practitioners of the Arts;
• General dental services such as scaling, filling, tooth extraction, wisdom teeth removal;
• Meals and beds for ordinary patients;
• Drugs and medical supplies in the national list of essential drugs;
• Normal childbirth or other methods of childbirth with medical indications.

2. Health promotion as follows:

• Provision and use of personal health diaries for personal health care;
• Health care by age group;
• Examination and care to promote the health of pregnant women, as well as postpartum care services;
• Family planning (consultation/ condoms/ pills/ injections/ implants/ sterilization);
• Home visits and patient care at home;
• Health awareness provided to individual and family service recipients through various media;
• Counseling encouraged participating in health promotion;
• Promoting health and preventing oral diseases, including oral health check-ups, advice on dental health, supplementation of fluoride in groups at risk of tooth decay;
• Modifying health behavior;
• Development of foreign worker volunteers to support health promotion, surveillance, prevention, and disease control;
• Provide health promotion action and solve problems in the area, as the provincial or district committee deems appropriate;
• Preventive vaccines included in the immunization plan of the Ministry of Public Health.

Source: Health Insurance Operation Manual for Foreigner and Foreign Workers, Ministry of Public Health 2020, Division of Health Economy and Health Security Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health, 88/20, Tiwanon Road, Talad Khwan Subdistrict, Mueang District, Nonthaburi Province. 11000.

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