Chip-based ID cards were granted to 186 citizens under the special household registration category at the Hiep Binh Chanh Support Center for the Disabled in Thu Duc city, part of the HCMC on July 5.
Many commercial banks in Vietnam are now piloting authenticating their clients via the chip-based citizen ID card connected to the National Population Database.
The Ministry of Health has just sent an official dispatch to departments of health and hospitals on promoting the implementation of medical examination and treatment covered by health insurance with citizen identification cards (CICs) with chips.
Information of over 3.1 million health insurance cards had been looked up via chip-based citizen identification cards at more than 11,500 medical facilities, accounting for 90.2% of the total number, as of late September.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Public Security yesterday said that in order to accelerate the progress of granting chip-based ID cards for residents, the working teams in charge of granting ID cards in 21 districts and Thu Duc City still work ordinarily during the National Day (September 2) holiday.
Director of the Ho Chi Minh City's Social Security Agency Phan Van Men informed that the hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City had piloted the chip-based ID card usage in replace of health insurance cards.
Responding to the calling of the public security sector, millions of people in Ho Chi Minh City have performed the procedures of being granted chip-based ID cards. Besides, the police staff have come to each quarter to carry out the processes of issuing ID cards for citizens; however, many people have to wait for several months to receive the ID cards without any contacts.
The Police Department for Administrative Management of Social Order (C06) under the Ministry of Public Security this morning informed that the authorities would control the spectators entering My Dinh National Football Stadium via citizen identification (ID) card.
Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, on November 5, held a ceremony to launch the second chapter of the issuance of chip-based ID cards for people in the area.
Police departments in Ho Chi Minh City have been implementing electronic chip-based ID cards to city dwellers; most of people are satisfied with simplified formalities.
