Public Health-Care in China

China's two-in-one fix to improve public health

22 Apr 2013

For the new Chinese government, a task in these times of global economic slowdown will be to match job creation with the growing number of job seekers looking for gainful employment. Here the...

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Hong Kong on standby for H7N9 outbreak as China confirms three new cases

7 Apr 2013

The latest three cases in Shanghai and Anhui brought the total number of confirmed H7N9 cases across the nation to 21 - ten in Shanghai, six in Jiangsu, three in Zhejiang and two in Anhui. Four...

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Questions fly thick and fast over delay in bird flu report

7 Apr 2013

Memories of the 2002-03 Sars epidemic are deeply embedded in the mainland psyche. While just about everyone learned about severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed 774 people worldwide, from...

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Beijing needs to give world full picture of bird flu outbreak

7 Apr 2013

One of the most important lessons of the 2002-03 Sars outbreak was that more openness from mainland officials would have helped combat the epidemic. There is evidence it has been remembered -...

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A decade on from Sars: Torment of the first patient

1 Apr 2013

While most people's memories of the 2002-03 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome - which killed 774 people worldwide - are fading, people like Huang Xingchu are still living with its...

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Shanghai's 'Dr Smile' Zhang Qiang goes private for public good

17 Mar 2013

Shanghai vascular surgeon Dr Zhang Qiang made headlines by quitting as department head of a public class-A hospital at the end of last year and becoming one of the mainland's few freelance doctors...

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Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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A dying profession

Young doctors are increasingly turning away from the more important fields of medical science to embrace the easier and more lucrative areas of plastic surgery and anaesthesiology.

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East meets West for the treatment of inpatients

Kwong Wah Hospital will provide the city's first inpatient service offering a combined treatment of Western and Chinese traditional medicine from the end of this month.

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Remedy you can't afford not to take

A second University of Hong Kong teaching hospital to open in Shenzhen soon expects to have no trouble filling its 2,000 beds - 1,200 of them for public patients at 500 yuan (HK$602) a day. This...

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Wards for Chinese medicine urged

Call for practitioners to run units in hospitals

Wards run by practitioners of Chinese medicine should be set up in public hospitals, a top medical school official has suggested.

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Low-cost hospitals crucial for reform

Health ministry hopes they will serve as a model in reducing hefty medical bills

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Talkback

Q Is enough being done to protect health workers from Sars?

Of course not. Everybody can see to the daily rise in the number of infected staff. There are not enough health-care...

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