A pharmacy model that is promoted by MinuteClinic in the U.S. is brought to Northwest China by local health authorities and AliHealth as part of a planned healthcare reform in improving patient access to care. The initiative in Jinchang in Gansu province that has a population of 400,000 are using telemedicine platforms from Alihealth which [...]
China is planning to make HIV testing kits more available in efforts to diagnose as many people and to provide them with the proper treatment. The decision to make the kits more available was disclosed by the leading AIDS specialist in China Wu Zunyou. He said that all outlets ranging from online shopping platforms to [...]
China is deepening its reform in healthcare this year by using several key factors for the reform that was discussed during a meet with the central government. The State Council convened a regular meeting and determined that the healthcare reform should be benefiting more people, then key sectors for the reform was determined and decided [...]
The introduction of the two child policy has caused worry among parents that the change will further aggravate the current shortage of pediatricians in China. The number of pediatricians dropped from 105,000 to 100,000 in just five years bring an average of 43 doctors per 100,000 children. And according to China’s public health the situation [...]
Yesterday was the opening of the first large public hospital in Bao’an District as part of the government’s efforts to relieve pressure on current public hospitals by building more outside of the city center. Found near the coastal are of Bao’an CBD and near Xin’an Metro Station, the hospital named Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical [...]
Top legislature in China started to read the Law on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that called for strengthening the role of traditional Chinese medicine in the health care system. The drafted law was just passed earlier this month by the State Council and submitted to the bimonthly session of the National People’s Congress Standing committee. [...]
By the end of the month the Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital will open on a trial basis in Bao’an district with 1,000 inpatient beds available. The hospital is located near Xin’an Metro and the first stage of construction is said to cost around 1.2 billion yuan. Once open the hospital will have the capacity [...]
Full accreditation was given to the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards making it the first hospital in the Chinese mainland to be accredited by the group. Chief executive of the hospital Professor Grace Tang received the accreditation from Karen Linegar the president of Australian Council on Healthcare [...]
One Chinese firm is planning to mass produce a military developed vaccine against the Ebola virus as the epidemic had contributed to the deaths of more than 11,000 people in West Africa starting to fade. The firm, which is privately held by Tianjin CanSino Biotechnology Inc., is planning to invest around 2 billion yuan to [...]
A news conference that was held last Monday by the city human resources and social security administration stated that residents are allowed to buy supplementary health insurance in November. The insurance that cost 20 yuan per person a year, reimburse 70 percent of any payments over 10,000 yuan for treating severe diseases. By having the [...]
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