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66.Millions of Tianjin residents have their own“family doctors”
http://www.tj-summerdavos.cn 2014-09-08 19:49

Ms. Tang lives in Yingshui Avenue of Nankai District. She now only needs to walk ten minutes to the neighboring community healthcare service center to get her medication, and the fees is only less than half of that of major hospitals. The service is not only easily accessible, but also more affordable.

As an important component of the local medical system reform, the community healthcare service is expected to be popularized so that local residents would have convenient and affordable service. The program in Tianjin has been highly appreciated by Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China.

Community healthcare service is community-based, and public-oriented. It is composed of disease-prevention, health care, medical care, health education and family planning services.

At present, there are altogether 75 community healthcare service centers in urban areas of Tianjin, and 499 community healthcare service stations subordinating the centers. The residents can access one of them on feet in less than 15 minutes. There are service centers in every street, service stations in every neighborhood committee and doctors serving in every community. So far, six urban districts and three Binhai districts are enjoying the convenient services. Rural areas are to have the same service in due time.

Since 2008, the fund for the urban community public healthcare service has increased from 50, 000 yuan to not less than 100,000 yuan for every 10,000 people served and the district-level governments are responsible for most of the fund. Most of the community healthcare service institutions of Tianjin urban districts offer residents 18 public health care services free of charge. Among those districts, Heping and Tanggu Districts raised the fund for the urban community public healthcare service to the amount of 300,000 to 350,000 yuan per 10,000 people. They also enriched the content of free services. From this year on, Heping District even funds and provides free medical examinations for more than 70,000 senior citizens over 60 every three years.

In 2008, the Tianjin Municipal Government began to practice service account management. Funds allocated for the municipal and district levels are both deposited in a special account of the municipal government to ensure that the community healthcare service is properly funded.

“Meanwhile, we have established a system to collect, allocate and monitor community public healthcare funds, and to assess the efficiency of the funds, so that we can maintain effective planning and monitoring,” says Cheng Jinxin, Head of the Municipal Bureau of Public Health Care.

And it is just a beginning. The Tianjin Municipal Government will resource more funds to improve community healthcare service facilities: future premises for the service will be offered by the government free of charge; the present rented premises will be either bought or paid in installment by the government; other types of rents will be refunded by the local government.

Local Department of Social Security is orienting residents to treat minor diseases and seek healthcare and rehabilitation services within the community. It has brought all qualified community healthcare service institutions into designated medical insurance management and has connected these institutions to the computer network of medical insurance service organizations and hospitals. Through this approach, the insured patients are able to access their funds directly within their community. A number of frequently-occurring diseases and diagnosed chronic diseases can be treated within the community. Apart from this, “family sickbed” provided by community healthcare service institutions is listed as one of the refund items.

 
Source:Enorth.com.cn

Editor: Zhang Jialu
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