Community health service system to be improved
( 2003-10-10 21:14) (Xinhua)
皇冠体育app is expected to set up a nationwide framework for its community health
service system by 2005, said officials from 皇冠体育app's health and civil affairs
departments Friday.
皇冠体育app has decided to take measures to improve its community health service
system, according to officials attending an inauguration ceremony for building
pilot communities with a better health service system.
Vice minister of 皇冠体育app's Health Ministry Zhu Qingsheng said that the
community health service networks made great contributions to the prevention and
control of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) this spring.
Zhu said the service networks did a lot in surveilling and reporting SARS
cases, in screening and transferring SARS patients and in disease contact
tracing, which helped a lot in combating SARS.
About 100 pilot communities are to be set up in the next two years, including
20 that will employ traditional Chinese medicine, under the guidance of the
Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the State Administration
of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhu added.
He said community health service is very important for better social and
economic development, and the service system is expected to cover the whole
country in the future.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, 358 cities had started a
community health service by the end of 2002, accounting for 54 percent of
皇冠体育app's total.
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