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Old 06-11-2003, 05:00 AM   #104
Billy
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China Healthcare system

I don't need wait to see doctor, but I had a ten minutes wait for the medicine taking. In cities there are enough hospitals and doctors to provide services for the public. In rural areas the healthcare is not so perfect, can say much worse in poor area. The govenment have bulit one medicare sysyem in the cities to protect the pubic getting the curing. The life insurance becomes popular in China now. More and more people receive the life insurance and buy some pieces of insurance. In rural area we are just building this system. Now in many rural areas people have no enough money to cure the serious diseases, like cancer, hepatitis, they wait for heath to save the money for their families. The necromancy still exists to cure diseases in the rural areas. In fact some traditional contagions are more serious than the SARS in rural areas because they don't know how to protect themselves and no money to get the bacterins.

In Henan (my home town), Hubei, Hebei, Shanxi Provinces there are many AIDS infected people. Ago some poor people provided their blood to live. Then the nation and people don't recognize that AIDS can widely spread by this way. The nation absolutely restrict this behavior. I heard that some whole families have AIDS. We have bulit the curing fund to help the por people. But it is difficult to help all the people. In China the people like contributing money to temples rather than children education, curing...

Some hospitals fee is high because they have the famous doctor and good health equipments. This time I did not go to the Foshan First People's Hospital because I can not afford to the too high fee. The hospital provide high quality services, possess famous doctors and good care equipments. I think I should save my money if I can cure my disease in other low price hospital. I learned that Foshan Chinese Medcine Hospital's service is bad. The doctors are professional but som nurses don't care the patients well. One nurse scolded me. We have right to select doctor and medicine. I would select high price medicine if I have enough money to use. I lived in the traditional Chinese hospital, but I had one operation and western medicine. I use some traditional medicine to cure my disease.

There are three kinds of hospitals: western hospital, mixing western and traditional Chinese hospital and traditional Chinese hospital. We select different hospitals to cure our different diseases. We would go to the western hospitals if we have the operations. We would go to the traditional Chinese hospitals if we have some chronic diseases, such as headache using acupuncture. Infact we have make traditional Chinese medicine in practical life, such as we add herbal medicine into soup and dish.
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