THE
MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
11/2001/TT-BYT
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Hanoi,
June 06, 2001
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CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE
CONDITIONS FOR MASSAGE SERVICE PRACTICE
Pursuant to the Enterprises Law and the legal
documents guiding the implementation thereof, the Government’s Decree No.
11/1999/ND-CP of March 3, 1999 on goods banned from circulation, commercial
services banned from provision, goods and services subject to business
restriction or conditional business, the Government’s Decree No. 02/2000/ND-CP
of February 3, 2000 on business registration, the Government’s Decree No.
03/2000/ND-CP of February 3, 2000 guiding the implementation of a number of
provisions of the Enterprises Law;
Pursuant to the Ordinance on Private Practice of Medicine and Pharmacy and
the Government’s Decree No. 06/CP of January 29, 1994 detailing a number of
articles of the Ordinance on Private Practice of Medicine and Pharmacy;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 87/CP of December 12, 1995 on
enhancing the management of cultural activities and cultural services, stepping
up the elimination of a number of grave social evils;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 30/2000/ND-CP of August 11, 2000 on
cancellation of a number of permits and turning a number of permits into
business conditions,
The Health Ministry hereby guides the conditions for massage service
practice as follows:
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Massage is a method in the system of
physiotherapy methods aiming to rehabilitate and improve human health.
2. Medical examination and treatment
establishments, functional rehabilitation establishments and hotels providing
massage services shall have to comply with the provisions of this Circular.
3. Beauty saloons, face lift and street massage
shall not be governed by this Circular.
4. The blind’s societies at all levels, if
meeting all the conditions prescribed in Section II on conditions for massage
service providing establishments of this Circular may register for provision of
massage services.
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1. They must have doctors in charge of massage
service practice: The doctors in charge must satisfy the following
requirements:
a/ Professionally:
- Being doctors specialized in functional
rehabilitation.
- Being doctors specialized in traditional
medicine, general doctors with certificates of training in physio-therary and
functional rehabilitation at schools designated by the Health Ministry (on the
list prescribed in Appendix 1).
b/ For incumbent officials, being permitted in
writing by the leadership of their managing agencies for moonlighting.
c/ Having good health for working (health
certificates issued by medical examination and treatment establishments of
district or higher level).
d/ Being allowed to register professional
practice at only one establishment and taking the professional and technical
responsibility.
It is strictly forbidden to lease or borrow
training diplomas and certificates.
e/ Signing labor contracts between doctors and
business establishment owners.
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a/ Having certificate of professional and
technical training in massage, granted by one of the schools designated by the
Health Ministry (on the list prescribed in Appendix 1).
b/ The massage technical personnel must strictly
adhere to the technical process they have learned. After 3 years, the head
doctors must re-examine their professional skills; if they are fully qualified,
they may continue their massage practice; if failing to meet the criteria, they
must be sent to training establishments designated by the Health Ministry for
re-training.
c/ When employed, they must have heath
qualification certificates granted by medical examination and treatment
establishments of district or higher level. In the course of their working,
they must have periodical health checks once every 3 or 6 months at medical
examination and treatment establishments of district or higher level. People
suffering from mental diseases, hepatitis B, HIV/AIDS, skin diseases,
tuberculosis and other contagious diseases and being in the period of
hospitalization must not practice the profession.
d/ Signing labor contracts with business
establishment owners under the professional consent of the head doctors.
3. Other conditions:
a/ Signboards: They must be correctly inscribed
with "Xoa bop" or "massage", not with the phrase "vat
ly tri lieu, phuc hoi chuc nang" (Physiotherapy, functional
rehabilitation), or others.
b/ The massage rooms must fully satisfy the
following conditions:
- Being spacious, with partitions between
individual beds or separate rooms (of 4m2 or more each), with ceiling of at
least 2.5m high.
- Being furnished with adequate lighting, not
with light-regulating lamps.
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- Being equipped with cabinets, lockers for
storage of customers clothing and property.
- Being not furnished with inside locks and
bolts.
- Being not furnished with any communication
means for contacting people inside the massage rooms.
- The doors must be structured with transparent
glass at 1.5m from the floor, 0.5m high and 0.3m wide.
- Massage beds must be of the prescribed size;
0.6 - 0.8m high, 0.7-0.9m wide, 2 - 2.2m long, with firm mattress, bed spread,
pillows, bath towels must be steamed for sterilization and used only once.
- The beds are placed in position of 450 against
�the door transparent
glass.
- Having the massage technical process printed
in big readable letters (on A1-size paper) affixed on the wall of each room.
- Being equipped with emergency bell for one-way
contact from the massage room to the doctor’s room or the guest reception
place.
c/ Being furnished with hygienic bathroom and
clean water supply system.
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e/ Having adequate drugs on the prescribed list,
having common medical instruments.
f/ The massage technical personnel must wear
tidy, clean, beautiful, high-necked dress as well as badge inscribed with the
establishment name, personnel’s name and affixed with the personnel’s photo of
3 x 4 size and practice the profession at massage rooms prescribed in Section
II, Item 2 above.
III. EXAMINATION, INSPECTION AND HANDLING OF
VIOLATIONS
The Health Services of the provinces and
centrally-run cities (called collectively the provinces) shall have to
supervise the activities of massage service establishments. Regularly or
irregularly, they must organize inter-branch examination, inspection teams to
inspect the observance of the provisions of this Circular and other relevant
law provisions.
The Health Ministry shall coordinate with the
provincial/municipal Health Services in conducting regular or irregular
inspection of the observance of the provisions of this Circular.
Organizations and individuals practicing massage
shall have to abide by and facilitate the examination and inspection of their
establishments. Organizations and individuals violating the provisions of this
Circular shall, depending on the seriousness of their violations, be handled
according to the provisions of law.
This Circular takes effect 15 days after its
signing for promulgation and replaces Circular No. 19/BYT-TT of December 21,
1995 of the Health Ministry guiding the management of massage services.
IV. ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION
1. The Health Ministry assigns the Therapy
Department and the Science and Training Department to continue finalizing the
program on functional rehabilitation fostering for general doctors who register
their names for massage practice and the program on training of massage,
physio-therapy personnel.
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3. Directors of medical examination and
treatment establishments, convalescence and functional rehabilitation establishments
and hotels, presidents of the Blind’s Society and other organizations, which
provide massage services, shall have to oversee all activities of their
establishments and be accountable before law for their own establishments’
activities. If they let prostitution activities happen in their massage rooms,
they shall be handled according to law.
4. The provincial/municipal Health Services
shall coordinate with the provincial/municipal Police Departments and Tourism
Services in reporting to the provincial/municipal People’s Committees for
organization of the implementation of this Circular.
5. Annually, the provincial/municipal Health
Services shall send their reports to the Health Ministry (The Therapy
Department) on the implementation of this Circular by establishments under
their respective management.
6. Annually, the schools, which train doctors
who register their names for massage practice and massage personnel, shall send
their reports to the Health Ministry (the Therapy Department) made according to
set form.
FOR THE HEALTH MINISTER
VICE MINISTER
Le Ngoc Trong
APPENDIX 1
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I. THE SCHOOLS LISTED BELOW ARE TASKED BY THE
HEALTH MINISTRY TO TRAIN DOCTORS IN CHARGE OF MASSAGE PRACTICE:
1. Hanoi Medicinal University.
2. Ho Chi Minh City Medicinal and Pharmaceutical
University.
II. THE SCHOOLS LISTED BELOW ARE TASKED BY
THE HEALTH MINISTRY TO TRAIN PERSONNEL DIRECTLY PROVIDING MASSAGE SERVICES:
In northern provinces:
1. Central Intermediate Medical Technique School
No.I
2. Hanoi Intermediate Medical School in
cooperation with the functional rehabilitation departments of Bach Mai and
Saint-Paul hospitals.
3. Nghe An Intermediate Medical School.
4. Tue Tinh Intermediate School of Hanoi.
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1. Central Intermediate Medical Technique School
No. II.
2. The Intermediate Medical Technique School of
Thua Thien- Hue.
3. Khanh Hoa Intermediate Medical Technique
School.
In southern provinces:
1. The medical technique department of Ho Chi
Minh City Medicinal and Pharmaceutical University.
2. Tien Giang Intermediate Medical School.
3. Dong Nai Intermediate Medical School.
In Central Highlands:
1. Lam Dong Intermediate Medical School.
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APPENDIX 3
(Issued together
with Circular No. 11/2001/TT-BYT of June 6, 2001)
A. List of first-aid drugs at massage service
establishments
Ordinal
number
Drug names
Use passage,
content, preparation forms
Quantity
1
Aminophylline
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5 ampoules
2
Calcium chloride
Injection, ampoule of 500mg/5ml
5 ampoules
3
Chlorpromazine
Injection, ampoule of 25mg/2ml
5 ampoules
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Epinephrine
Injection, ampoule of 1mg/1ml
5 ampoules
5
Glyceryl trinitrate
Oral, tablet of 0.5 -2.5mg
10 tablets
6
Heptaminol (Hydrochloride)
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10 tablets
7
Nifedipine
Oral, tablet of 10mg - 20mg
10 tablets
8
Oresol (ORS)
Oral, powder bag of 27.9g/l mixed with 1 liter
of cool boiled water
5 bags
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Panthenol
Mist spray, sprayer
1 sprayer
10
Paracetamol
Oral, tablet of 100 - 500
Insert, pellet of 100mg
10 tablets
5 pellets
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1. Stethoscope
2. Blood pressure meter
3. Thermometer
4. Syringe.-