Once a medical insurance information system is initiated this year, it will allow Shenzhen residents to pay and settle all medical expenses for treatment that they get from other cities within the Guangdong Province using their social insurance cards. According to a medical reform plan, the medical insurance information system will be shared by all [...]
The Ministry of Health will be enforcing stricter regulations to curb the widespread overuse of antibiotics in hospitals. This is bought by concerns of an increase in drug resistant diseases. The new ruling will take effect on August 1. The antibiotics will be classified into three categories, restricted, unrestricted and special management based on safety, [...]
The extension of the Shenzhen Children’s Hospital in Futian will be operational sooner as expected. The hospital was initially set to open on September next year but was move to June per Vice Mayor Wu Yihuan request to speed up its construction to ease overcrowding in the hospital. The government is willing to support the [...]
The District People’s Hospital in Nanshan is planning to open a window for patients that need to get simple drugs quickly. People that suffer from chronic diseases and diagnoses from doctors can get the drugs from a window after paying a low registration cost. This will cut the waiting time for people in hurry to [...]
Medical tourism is a term that was created by travel agencies and media to describe a popular trend practiced by middle and high income residents in the city in which they travel to other countries to seek medical care. Among the most popular destinations are Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea and along with [...]
Three percent of the city’s children and at least half of the entire population are suffering from a sleeping problem that is currently being neglected. This is according to a report gathered from city hospitals in recognition of World Sleep Day. Most parents who notice their children snoring when sleeping think that the child is [...]
According to the city commission of health, population and family planning is planning to create a charging plan and standard for family medical practices is now being drafted. Under the plan more services is being planned such as adding more family doctors, family convalescent services and self paid services will be introduced. The family doctor [...]
Fusion Fitness, Shekou will be the host of the next First Aid Training program offered by International SOS on the 24th and 25th of this month. Employees of various restaurants in the Shekou area amongst others will be trained in either Chinese or English in order to provide a higher degree of safety in the [...]
This year was one of the coldest Spring Festivals to ever hit China, even so city hospitals saw a decrease in the number of emergency patients compared to the previous years. A hospital spokesperson said the number of patients had decreased at least 20 percent, but there were more cases of patients with serious conditions [...]
Last month China’s Ministry of Health revealed that each Chinese person consumes an average of 138 grams of antibiotics per year, which is ten times the amount consumed per capita in the United States. Studies also showed that a lot of Chinese people are prescribed with Penicillin as much as three times the international standards. [...]
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