Total Support for Essential Vaccinations

  1. Introduction to Health Program
  2. Total Support for Essential Vaccinations

Total support for essential vaccinations (free assistance program for children under the age of 12)

“Total support for essential vaccinations” is a program for children under the age of 12 through which the entire cost of vaccinations is provided if the vaccination is received at a public health center or any private medical institution designated by the head of the gu district.

pointThe “total support for essential vaccinations” program was expanded to the city of Seoul and Incheon as well as Gyeonggi-do starting in 2012

What do I need to prepare when going for a vaccination?

The guardian shall carry a copy of resident registration (to verify the address) and the baby journal (to verify vaccination records) and visit the consigned medical institution.
(A foreign applicant shall prepare a copy of proof of alien registration.)

The following are the things that guardians must know.

  • Vaccination cost assistance may not be provided at medical institutions not designated for the national vaccination support program.
  • Tuberculosis is a subject of BCG (intradermal) cost support.
  • Excluded from the national vaccination support program: Typhoid, hemorrhagic fever related renal syndrome, influenza (flu)

Contact

Regional Health Department, Guro Public Health Center+82-2-860-2420