Gansu Chinese medicine health care dramatically reduce medical expenses

Time: 2015-10-29

Source: xinhua

Author: beam army

Xinhua lanzhou oct 28 (xinhua) to "with western medicine in the treatment of rheumatism, one you can will be 87 yuan, and the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine treatment was low, add new farming and the technology of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine can be fully reimbursed, a course of treatment is less than half the western medicine of traditional Chinese medicine." Farmers Tang Ziping said in the gansu province longxi county hospital treatment.

Tang Ziping hometown in west gansu, gansu province, is one of the "Chinese" important production base in China, astragalus, codonopsis, etc in traditional Chinese medicine resources.

Traditional Chinese medicine health food combo ", "high blood pressure prevention and control of traditional Chinese medicine"... Now, go in urban and rural areas of gansu province, on the wall on either side of the highway road can be seen some knowledge on the prevention and treatment of common diseases, folk prescription, health knowledge and all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine therapy. The local people through the "healthy culture wall", can grasp some knowledge of Chinese medicine treatment, and applied to daily life.

"We have many kinds of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) the people in the village, people with chronic diseases according to the wall of prescription, the ask, that a scratch, soon with the medicine for himself, is very convenient, it is important to spend less." The villagers of dongfang said.

Gansu province is located in China's northwest inland, many economic indicators far below the national average, residents purchase ability of medical and health services. According to health and family planning commission, gansu province, gansu province in 2007 sick should be in the hospital and nearly seventy percent of the patients who were not admitted to the hospital is caused by economic reasons.

In recent years, we will deepen reform of the medical and health system in gansu province, explore the easiest way to solve the problem of the most basic, the cost of as little as possible to maintain a healthy residents, strive to solve the problems such as difficulty and high cost of the crowd to see a doctor, walked out of one's gansu characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine health care.

In July 2011, gansu province government and the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine to sign the agreement, the agreement to build China's comprehensive reform pilot provinces of development of Chinese medicine. Then, introduced including urban and rural residents in gansu province traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment service fee in full reimbursement system, dozens of development policies and measures of Chinese medicine, basic service covering urban and rural grassroots medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine.

"In the case of medical burden without increasing, through the development of Chinese medicine in gansu province and a series of measures to minimize antibiotic usage, significantly reduced the medical establishment outpatient infusion people proportion, improve the comprehensive hospital non-surgical treatment, promoted the improvement of medical quality." Gansu province who wei-zhong liu, director of the planning commission, said poor backward area such as gansu province, Chinese medicine for its relatively low price advantage, to solve the vast rural low-income groups "expensive" problem.

According to who in gansu province development planning commission, with the reform gradually thorough, break "to the medicine cure" and the establishment of a new compensation mechanism, local hospital income structure was optimized, public hospital public welfare further highlight. Statistics show that urban and rural residents in gansu province hospital burden reduce obviously, personal health expenditure proportion less than 40% for five consecutive years.

Recently, the reform office of the state council announced the first half of 2015 the health the latest monitoring data shows that gansu province public hospitals all outpatient costs 166.3 yuan, 5492.3 yuan per capita hospitalization cost, continue to be the lowest.

This year, in the province's 69 counties in gansu province (excluding municipal districts) fully implemented the integrated reform in public hospitals at the county level, clearly put forward both on Chinese and western medicine, give full play to the characteristics of TCM advantages and improve service ability of traditional Chinese medicine.

Characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine health care reform also promotes the local Chinese medicine industry, development of health services, such as health care, medical tourism, at the same time open the service the new pattern of foreign trade of Chinese medicine. In 2013, gansu province, using economic belt "silk road" as a traditional Chinese medicine and Ukraine and other eastern European and central Asian countries trade and service cooperation, from the past rely on minerals, such as "hard" exports to exports of goods and services and products.