Offshore Islands Development Act Article 13

To maintain the safety and health of the residents of offshore islands, the Executive Yuan shall allocate a budget for subsidizing the establishment of medical institutions, nursing institutions, long-term care institutions, and other medical institutions on offshore islands, and for recruiting doctors in specialist departments that are under-staffed in offshore islands, and shall prescribe regulations for special incentive and assistance.The self-payment premiums requirement of the national health insurance beneficiaries for residents of offshore islands aged 65 and over shall be paid from a budget allocated by the central government.The central competent authority shall subsidize the two-way travel costs of acutely or severely ill patients who urgently need to be transferred from offshore islands to the main island of Taiwan for hospitalization, and of accompanying medical personnel.The central competent authority shall allocate a budget to subsidize expenses of physically and mentally disabled and elderly persons who have need for receiving long-term care services.To protect the dignity and health of elderly persons on offshore islands, the central competent authority shall provide each senior citizen with a two-yearly physical examination that is comparable to health checks provided for civil servants, and the central competent authority shall allocate a budget to subsidize the difference in cost between such physical examination and the health checks provided for senior citizens by the competent authorities of special municipality and county (city) in the current year under the Senior Citizens Welfare Act.