As a reminder, the current National Health Insurance covers a free health check-up for children age 3 through 7.

With the service only at its 60 percent usage,

the Health Bureau is planning to dispatch doctors to childcare centers and kindergartens to perform the examination.

These children are between the ages of 3 and 7 and are qualified for one free health check-up covered by the National Health Insurance plan, although many parents do not know of the benefit their children are en

Some parents even avoid taking their children to the hospital in fear of them contracting other diseases.

All the concerns made the service rate of the health check benefit to be at a low 60%, therefore, the Health Bureau tried to dispatch doctors to kindergartens and childcare centers in Taipei County's HsinChuang.

Of the 8,030 children who received the health check-up, more than three thousand people are with eyesight problems, Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency, and disease of the urology department and cardiovascular departments.

2,670 children have cavities while more than a thousand of them are with some kind of allergy.

Pediatrician points out that, children often do not show symptoms of diseases for the early stages often are not obvious.

In the future, if the doctors can go to kindergarten or childcare centers to perform health checks, early prevention or treatment would be possible.

Doctors pointed out that, many children suffer from delayed development problem because their parents could not detect early syndromes and might miss the treatment period completely.

Therefore, it is vital for parents to bring their children to the hospital for health checks before the implementation of the new plan.