China makes headway in enhancing grassroots medical services
10 months, 3 weeks ago

China makes headway in enhancing grassroots medical services

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China has worked to bolster its public health care services at various levels, aiming to improve its people's well-being, a senior National Health Commission official said on Tuesday. At a press conference held in Beijing, NHC official Zhu Hongbiao highlighted China's efforts to channel medical resources, including personnel, technology, services and management, into community-level health care institutions, ensuring the public has access to quality medical services on their doorsteps. Additionally, Zhu emphasized efforts to improve the services of city and county-level medical institutions, such as the establishment of partnerships between China's top-tier hospitals and county-level hospitals to provide assistance and support. In 2023, the proportion of visits to community-level health care institutions climbed to 52 percent, demonstrating the increasing appeal of grassroots health care institutions among the public, Zhu said.

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Over 90% of China's village clinics covered by basic medical insurance
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Over 90% of China's village clinics covered by basic medical insurance

China Daily  

BEIJING -- More than 90 percent of village clinics in China have their services covered by basic medical insurance, a senior health official said on Sunday. Over the past two years, the Ministry of Finance has spent approximately 900 million yuan to help township-level health centers in central and western regions upgrade their medical equipment, according to Lei. Looking forward, …

Surge in grassroots TCM clinics boosts public health services
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Surge in grassroots TCM clinics boosts public health services

China Daily  

The number of grassroots-level traditional Chinese medicine clinics has risen from around 3,000 in 2015 to 42,000 recently, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine said during a news conference on Friday. Xing Chao, deputy director of the administration's medical administration department, revealed that 99.6 percent of community healthcare centers and township-level rural clinics now offer TCM services. Xing also …

Surge in grassroots TCM clinics boosts public health services
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Surge in grassroots TCM clinics boosts public health services

China Daily  

The number of grassroots-level traditional Chinese medicine clinics has risen from around 3,000 in 2015 to 42,000 recently, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine said during a news conference on Friday. Xing Chao, deputy director of the administration's medical administration department, revealed that 99.6 percent of community healthcare centers and township-level rural clinics now offer TCM services. Xing also …

China's ageing villages face yawning healthcare gap in fragile economy
2 months, 1 week ago

China's ageing villages face yawning healthcare gap in fragile economy

The Hindu  

David Wei had to carry his nephew on his back for 3 km after the younger man suffered a heart attack, staggering down a road being repaired in rural China, while an ambulance took 90 minutes to drive out from the city and save him. "The irony is that such policy priorities are a major contributor to China's population decline …

Shanghai to enhance community healthcare centers
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Shanghai to enhance community healthcare centers

China Daily  

Shanghai will elevate the role of the community healthcare centers to comprehensively build up their capacities in basic medical treatment, rehabilitation, public health services and health management, said Wen Daxiang, director of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health, at a news conference on Jan 17. At the same time, the city will prioritize opening registration slots at second- and third-tier hospitals …

90 pct of Chinese counties run TCM centers
2 months, 3 weeks ago

90 pct of Chinese counties run TCM centers

China Daily  

BEIJING -- By 2024, approximately 90 percent of counties in China had set up county-run traditional Chinese medicine institutions, according to a national TCM meeting that opened on Wednesday. TCM centers had been established in nearly every town, township, and urban community throughout China, according to statistics released at the meeting. According to Yu Yanhong, head of the National Administration …

Over 1 million resident doctors trained in past decade via standardized system
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Over 1 million resident doctors trained in past decade via standardized system

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China has trained a total of 1.07 million resident doctors over the past decade, with more than 30 percent specializing in high-demand fields such as general practice, pediatrics, psychiatry and critical care medicine, according to a Chinese health official. Zeng Yixin, vice-minister of the National Health Commission, shared the details at a recent medical education forum, noting that …

Resources needed for rural health
4 months ago

Resources needed for rural health

China Daily  

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Chinese authorities laid out a roadmap for improving the health of the nation's rural residents in a policy document released recently. The document, jointly released by the National Health Commission and 13 other government departments, said that comprehensive measures will be taken, ranging from upgrading infrastructure and cultivating healthcare professionals in rural areas, to ramping up healthcare …

Resources needed for rural health
4 months ago

Resources needed for rural health

China Daily  

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Chinese authorities laid out a roadmap for improving the health of the nation's rural residents in a policy document released recently. The document, jointly released by the National Health Commission and 13 other government departments, said that comprehensive measures will be taken, ranging from upgrading infrastructure and cultivating healthcare professionals in rural areas, to ramping up healthcare …

China to enhance TCM's role in providing healthcare services: official
6 months, 3 weeks ago

China to enhance TCM's role in providing healthcare services: official

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China will strengthen the role of traditional Chinese medicine in advancing its Healthy China Initiative, said a senior official at the National Health Commission. China now boasts 41,700 TCM clinics and over 99 percent of community- and township-level medical institutions are capable of providing TCM services. In 2023, China's 93,000 TCM specialized medical institutions recorded 1.54 billion medical …

Beijing medical experts transforming healthcare in Lhasa
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Beijing medical experts transforming healthcare in Lhasa

China Daily  

Chen Shunchi, a doctor from the Beijing Anding Hospital at Capital Medical University who now works as an aid-Xizang doctor at the People's Hospital of Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, diagnoses monk patients in Lhasa. In August 2015, Beijing initiated its support for the construction of the People's Hospital of Lhasa in the Xizang autonomous region. Zhang Ning, the deputy Party …

Beijing medical experts transforming healthcare in Lhasa
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Beijing medical experts transforming healthcare in Lhasa

China Daily  

Chen Shunchi, a doctor from the Beijing Anding Hospital at Capital Medical University who now works as an aid-Xizang doctor at the People's Hospital of Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, diagnoses monk patients in Lhasa. In August 2015, Beijing initiated its support for the construction of the People's Hospital of Lhasa in the Xizang autonomous region. Zhang Ning, the deputy Party …

Beijing medical experts transforming healthcare in Lhasa
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Beijing medical experts transforming healthcare in Lhasa

China Daily  

Chen Shunchi, a doctor from the Beijing Anding Hospital at Capital Medical University who now works as an aid-Xizang doctor at the People's Hospital of Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, diagnoses monk patients in Lhasa. In August 2015, Beijing initiated its support for the construction of the People's Hospital of Lhasa in the Xizang autonomous region. Zhang Ning, the deputy Party …

Beijing medical experts transforming healthcare in Lhasa
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Beijing medical experts transforming healthcare in Lhasa

China Daily  

Chen Shunchi, a doctor from the Beijing Anding Hospital at Capital Medical University who now works as an aid-Xizang doctor at the People's Hospital of Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, diagnoses monk patients in Lhasa. In August 2015, Beijing initiated its support for the construction of the People's Hospital of Lhasa in the Xizang autonomous region. Zhang Ning, the deputy Party …

China's basic medical insurance covers over 70% of village clinics
7 months ago

China's basic medical insurance covers over 70% of village clinics

China Daily  

Xinhua| Updated :2024-08-28 BEIJING -- More than 72 percent of village clinics in China have been included in the national medical insurance system as part of the country's efforts to enhance healthcare services in rural areas, according to the National Healthcare Security Administration. Statistics from the NHSA reveal that there are currently 580,000 village clinics nationwide, with about 100,000 designated …

China's basic medical insurance covers over 70% of village clinics
7 months ago

China's basic medical insurance covers over 70% of village clinics

China Daily  

BEIJING -- More than 72 percent of village clinics in China have been included in the national medical insurance system as part of the country's efforts to enhance healthcare services in rural areas, according to the National Healthcare Security Administration. Statistics from the NHSA reveal that there are currently 580,000 village clinics nationwide, with about 100,000 designated as institutions covered …

China improves health services for elderly unable to care for themselves
7 months, 2 weeks ago

China improves health services for elderly unable to care for themselves

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China's National Health Commission and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine have decided to launch a campaign for 2024-2027, aiming to improve necessary medical and health services for the elderly who are unable to take care of themselves. A circular has been issued requiring eligible medical and health institutions, principally grassroots institutions, as well as nurseries and …

China sees increase in registered nurses, totaling 5.63 million
10 months, 3 weeks ago

China sees increase in registered nurses, totaling 5.63 million

China Daily  

China had about 5.63 million registered nurses by the end of 2023, compared with 5.2 million in 2022, the National Health Commission said on Saturday. There were about four nurses per 1,000 people and more than 80 percent of them held junior college degrees or higher, said Xing Ruoqi, deputy director of the commission's department of medical administration, during a …

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility
11 months ago

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China had established over 18,000 medical consortia of various forms by the end of 2023 amid its efforts to improve community healthcare infrastructure and accessibility, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Wednesday. The number of two-way referrals between higher and lower-level medical institutions nationwide reached 30.32 million last year, marking a 9.7 percent increase …

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility
11 months ago

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China had established over 18,000 medical consortia of various forms by the end of 2023 amid its efforts to improve community healthcare infrastructure and accessibility, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Wednesday. The number of two-way referrals between higher and lower-level medical institutions nationwide reached 30.32 million last year, marking a 9.7 percent increase …

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility
1 year ago

China boosts building of medical consortia to improve healthcare accessibility

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China had established over 18,000 medical consortia of various forms by the end of 2023 amid its efforts to improve community healthcare infrastructure and accessibility, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Wednesday. The number of two-way referrals between higher and lower-level medical institutions nationwide reached 30.32 million last year, marking a 9.7 percent increase …

40 percent more elderly covered by public healthcare services
1 year, 4 months ago

40 percent more elderly covered by public healthcare services

China Daily  

China has channeled a tremendous amount of resources into improving grassroots healthcare infrastructure and nurturing related talent, and has made continuous efforts to promote the high-quality formation of families by strengthening healthcare for women and children, officials said in Beijing on Wednesday. "We've also pushed forward with family doctor services for average people, especially those key groups such as the …

GE HealthCare steps up public welfare efforts in China
1 year, 6 months ago

GE HealthCare steps up public welfare efforts in China

China Daily  

Medical equipment is displayed at the booth of GE HealthCare during the 87th China International Medical Equipment Fair in Shanghai in May. GE HealthCare, a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator, plans to carry out its 18th Pink Action in China from mid-October for breast cancer prevention and treatment and help raise women's health awareness. Since 2006, GE …

Explainer: Chinese medical experts on key COVID-19 concerns through FAQs
2 years, 2 months ago

Explainer: Chinese medical experts on key COVID-19 concerns through FAQs

China Daily  

A medical worker in a protective suit adjusts a monitoring device for a patient at the fever clinics of the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University. Responding to online reports of vomiting and diarrhea caused by XBB, Li Tongzeng, a chief doctor with the department of respiratory and infectious diseases at Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, said symptoms of …

Explainer: Chinese medical experts on key COVID-19 concerns through FAQs
2 years, 2 months ago

Explainer: Chinese medical experts on key COVID-19 concerns through FAQs

China Daily  

A medical worker in a protective suit adjusts a monitoring device for a patient at the fever clinics of the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University. Responding to online reports of vomiting and diarrhea caused by XBB, Li Tongzeng, a chief doctor with the department of respiratory and infectious diseases at Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, said symptoms of …

Soaring COVID-19 cases shine light on China's healthcare gap
2 years, 2 months ago

Soaring COVID-19 cases shine light on China's healthcare gap

Firstpost  

In one of the world’s most unequal economies, China’s centralised healthcare system drives money and resources towards urban hospitals at the expense of rural ones, a disparity that has become all the more intense as cases surge Tangshan, China: Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even as hospitals in major cities heave under an …

China releases details of COVID-19 management shift
2 years, 3 months ago

China releases details of COVID-19 management shift

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China has announced that it will be downgrading its management of COVID-19 as of Jan 8, treating it as a Class B infection, rather than a more serious Class A infection. He listed the fact that China has closely followed the mutation of the virus, moved fast on vaccination promotion and the supply of medicines, built up its …

Facing COVID surge, China expanding hospitals, ICUs
2 years, 3 months ago

Facing COVID surge, China expanding hospitals, ICUs

The Hindu  

Facing a surge in COVID-19 cases, China is setting up more intensive care facilities and trying to strengthen hospitals as Beijing rolls back anti-virus controls that confined millions of people to their homes, crushed economic growth and set off protests. A Cabinet meeting called Thursday for “full mobilisation” of hospitals including adding staff to ensure their “combat effectiveness” and increasing …

Shanxi continues to build regional medical centers
2 years, 11 months ago

Shanxi continues to build regional medical centers

China Daily  

North China's Shanxi will focus on diseases with a high mortality and high referral rate, strengthen the construction of regional medical centers, and strive to provide patients with serious illnesses with efficient treatment within the province within the next five years. Shanxi will strengthen innovation in systems, technology, models and management, accelerate the expansion and regional balanced distribution of high-quality …

China's Health System Faces Raft of Challenges as Omicron Hits
2 years, 11 months ago

China's Health System Faces Raft of Challenges as Omicron Hits

News 18  

China is battling its biggest spike in coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with millions under lockdown and the healthcare system feeling the pressure. That is placing a strain on China’s already under-pressure medical system, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant rapidly moves through the population. Peking University researchers have warned that China could suffer a “colossal outbreak” …

Inside the lives of frontline workers making China's COVID-zero strategy possible
2 years, 11 months ago

Inside the lives of frontline workers making China's COVID-zero strategy possible

ABC  

As a new wave of Omicron cases strikes several major cities across China, Lucy, a community worker, again switches to "fighting mode" as she braces for a long stint of 15-hour days. Professor George Liu, a public health expert at La Trobe University, said China's COVID-zero model was "still working" and likely to remain sustainable despite the pressure placed on …

To optimize medical services, discourage unnecessary visits to top hospitals
4 years ago

To optimize medical services, discourage unnecessary visits to top hospitals

China Daily  

Editor's Note: From "bare-foot doctors" to the most expansive and effective medical insurance system, China has made remarkable achievements in the healthcare sector. The fact that 97 percent of China's 1.4 billion people are covered by medical insurance of different kinds and the lack of facilities to diagnose serious illnesses in most clinics and medical centers prompt people to go …

To optimize medical services, discourage unnecessary visits to top hospitals
4 years ago

To optimize medical services, discourage unnecessary visits to top hospitals

China Daily  

Editor's Note: From "bare-foot doctors" to the most expansive and effective medical insurance system, China has made remarkable achievements in the healthcare sector. The fact that 97 percent of China's 1.4 billion people are covered by medical insurance of different kinds and the lack of facilities to diagnose serious illnesses in most clinics and medical centers prompt people to go …

China looks to improve public health system
4 years, 10 months ago

China looks to improve public health system

China Daily  

China plans to ramp up its public health infrastructure and boost regional treatment capabilities for infectious diseases in order to strengthen weak areas exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a plan released by the National Development and Reform Commission and two other government bodies on May 20. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and its provincial-level institutions …

Over 1,700 frontline medics likely infected with coronavirus in China, presenting new crisis for the government
5 years, 1 month ago

Over 1,700 frontline medics likely infected with coronavirus in China, presenting new crisis for the government

CNN  

CNN — Ning Zhu, a nurse in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the heart of a deadly coronavirus outbreak, is restless. For example, at Zhongnan Hospital, one of the 61 hospitals dealing with cases, 40 health care workers had been infected, accounting for nearly 30% of the 138 coronavirus patients admitted by the hospital from January 1 to 28, …

Virus outbreak pushes China’s stretched health care workers to breaking point
5 years, 2 months ago

Virus outbreak pushes China’s stretched health care workers to breaking point

CNN  

Beijing CNN — All Shi Muying wanted was to spend one last Lunar New Year holiday with her terminally ill mother. Timeline 2019 December 8: First patient develops symptoms of Wuhan coronavirus December 31: Earliest cases of virus reported to World Health Organization 2020 January 1: Market in Wuhan where outbreak is believed to have originated closed for disinfection January …

China's healthcare sector promising for 2020 and beyond
5 years, 3 months ago

China's healthcare sector promising for 2020 and beyond

China Daily  

Visitors pass the WeDoctor booth during the Flex Future Life Expo 2019 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Focus has been laid on not only developing urban areas, but also continuously making healthcare more accessible in rural China, boosting development and the number of hospitals, doctors and medical equipment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in 2017, China's online healthcare …

Leaders praise those in medical profession
7 years, 7 months ago

Leaders praise those in medical profession

China Daily  

President Xi Jinping called for greater respect and support for medical workers while urging the establishment of a basic nationwide healthcare system be accelerated. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks on Thursday as a national commendation conference for health professionals took place in Beijing. …

Premier calls for better medical education to build "healthy China"
7 years, 8 months ago

Premier calls for better medical education to build "healthy China"

China Daily  

BEIJING - Premier Li Keqiang has instructed education and health authorities to push forward the country's medical education reform and improve professional training to build a "healthy China." In a written instruction consigned to a national conference on medical education reform held in Beijing Monday, Li urged the Ministry of Education, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the …

More foreigners seeking medical care in Xinjiang
7 years, 10 months ago

More foreigners seeking medical care in Xinjiang

China Daily  

A nurse from the Hospital of Xinjiang Traditional Uyghur Medicine, attends to a mother from Uzbekistan, along with her daughter, who was born in the facility in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Region plans to expand services for people along Silk Road routes More patients from Central Asian nations sought medical care in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous …

WHO head sees health benefits unfolding that will help planet
7 years, 10 months ago

WHO head sees health benefits unfolding that will help planet

China Daily  

Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, sees the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation as a chance to promote joint work by the WHO and China that will in turn benefit countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. The countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative include some WHO member states in which poor public …

WHO head sees health benefits unfolding that will help planet
7 years, 10 months ago

WHO head sees health benefits unfolding that will help planet

China Daily  

Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, sees the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation as a chance to promote joint work by the WHO and China that will in turn benefit countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. The countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative include some WHO member states in which poor public …

Chinese medical team contributes to S Sudan's health sector: minister[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
7 years, 10 months ago

Chinese medical team contributes to S Sudan's health sector: minister[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Authorities in South Sudan on Wednesday hailed China's continued efforts to support the country' health sector by contributing at least 15 Chinese medical specialists annually to various health units for the past six years. Speaking during a farewell ceremony for Chinese doctors who ended their one-year mission in April, Health Minister Riek Gai Kok said there is no doubt that …

Partnerships planned for medical institutes
7 years, 11 months ago

Partnerships planned for medical institutes

China Daily  

Medical partnerships will be promoted across China by 2020 to provide patients with more sustainable and efficient healthcare services, according to a central government guideline to be released. Medical partnerships, which promote effective cooperation and coordination between different types of medical institutes, play a very important role in establishing a tiered medical care system, which is key to the success …

Partnerships planned for medical institutes
7 years, 11 months ago

Partnerships planned for medical institutes

China Daily  

Medical partnerships will be promoted across China by 2020 to provide patients with more sustainable and efficient healthcare services, according to a central government guideline to be released. Medical partnerships, which promote effective cooperation and coordination between different types of medical institutes, play a very important role in establishing a tiered medical care system, which is key to the success …

Medical firm welcomes healthcare reforms
7 years, 11 months ago

Medical firm welcomes healthcare reforms

China Daily  

Omar Ishrak, chief executive of US­-based medical device manufacturer Medtronic. As China increases its efforts to provide low-cost and effective medical services through the government's healthcare reforms, the plan offers potential for all market players, including foreign companies. Omar Ishrak, chief executive of US-­based medical device manufacturer Medtronic, does not regard the reforms as something that would put the brakes …

Medical firm welcomes healthcare reforms
7 years, 11 months ago

Medical firm welcomes healthcare reforms

China Daily  

Omar Ishrak, chief executive of US­-based medical device manufacturer Medtronic. As China increases its efforts to provide low-cost and effective medical services through the government's healthcare reforms, the plan offers potential for all market players, including foreign companies. Omar Ishrak, chief executive of US-­based medical device manufacturer Medtronic, does not regard the reforms as something that would put the brakes …

Guidelines to help fix national healthcare
7 years, 11 months ago

Guidelines to help fix national healthcare

China Daily  

China will press to strengthen medical partnerships and arrange closer ties between top-tier hospitals and grassroots medical services to provide better health management and care for urban and rural residents. "The goal for the medical partnerships is to make quality medical care more accessible to the wider public, especially in less-developed areas," Li said. The idea of building partnerships across …

More seeking help for mental illnesses
7 years, 11 months ago

More seeking help for mental illnesses

China Daily  

Participants of "Walk& Talk" pose for a picture in Beijing on Friday. Official: Increase in disorders caused by depression, tension, alcohol, dementia The number of registered patients with serious mental disorders in China reached 5.4 million last year, with three-quarters of them suffering schizophrenia, China's top health authority said on Friday. China has been improving mental health services, with the …

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