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Chinese medical reform for “medical treatment difficult and expensive” prescription pilot reform of public hospitals will be launched in 12 cities

“China’s medical reform is aimed ‘medical treatment is difficult and expensive’ prescription, to achieve the basic medical insurance system, mitigation and reduction of diseases caused by individual families as bankruptcy, improve basic health care system to facilitate the people for medical treatment, to promote equality of basic public services prevention of major diseases. This is the National Health Minister Chen Zhu has made medical reform in China today, the latest interpretation.

Chen Zhu told the media group said in an interview, “how to 1.3 billion people in urban and rural areas to provide a basic medical services and public health service system and the corresponding security system, this challenge has no precedent in the world.”

His view, “see” the main allocation of medical resources is unreasonable, especially in high-quality medical resources are concentrated in big cities, people find a good doctor is not easy; “your doctor”, on the one hand is significantly higher health care costs than people’s incomes increase, while the proportion of individuals to pay excessive.

He pointed out that the current public hospital reform is difficult, but also hot, “though not easy to control, but it focused on the doctor for treatment of many contradictions, it must be reformed.” This year, the pilot reform of public hospitals will be at the National 10 two cities started. He said that “any health care reform is very difficult to please everybody.” Deepening medical reform so long and arduous nature, must be well prepared.

He said, industrialization, urbanization, population aging, disease and ecological change and so will change Medicine Health brings new challenges, people are constantly on the medical and health services, new demands and expectations. The “establishment of basic medical and health system, improve the national health standards, and achieve universal access to basic medical and health services, great goal, it is the most important tasks of health.”

From the “barefoot doctors” to the Health Minister, Chen Zhu’s personal feelings of helplessness over lack of medical treatment, but also witnessed six years of New China and the Development of the medical and health undertakings. Liberation is called “sick man of Asia” China’s per capita life expectancy is only 30 years old, but has now reached 70-year-old, breaking the Life “70 rare ancient” limitations.

Review of the last century, a serious lack of medical treatment in rural areas in China fifty years time, Chen Zhu recalls, “National medical staff only 100 000, only two beds per million people in low levels of technology, medicine and equipment industry is almost blank. “By last year, the country already has 278 000 health institutions, health care team six million people and 2.8 hospital beds per thousand population. Overall health care quality and the main health indicators have significantly improved the medical services has improved significantly, and has formed a complete system of medicine.

New rural Cooperation Health care system so that Chinese farmers for the first time with the main resource of the medical security system, now covers more than one billion urban and rural residents, multi-level medical security system framework is taking shape.

The face of influenza H1N1 Influenza Epidemic, Chen Zhu said: thousands of cases of death in the global context, China has no influenza A H1N1 influenza deaths; the world’s first complete swine H1N1 influenza vaccine clinical trials, and became the first state can be applied to the vaccine.

He stressed that the six years, China has basically wiped out smallpox, filariasis, to achieve the objectives of the World Health Organization’s polio, diphtheria children had no reported cases for two consecutive years.

Once known as the “national disease” of hepatitis B through vaccination and other measures have also been effectively controlled. Since to hepatitis B vaccine into national immunization programs, the nation’s rate of hepatitis B virus carrier dropped 7 percent from 11 percent, infant carrier rate is less than 2%.

Chen Zhu said the Chinese health system in the deepening of China but also for the 15 children under the age of catch-hepatitis B vaccine. For the year five years-hepatitis B virus carrier rate dropped to 6 percent below, as soon as possible, “Hepatitis B power” take off the hat.