China to cut costs, extravagance in medical sector – Reuters

From Reuters:

China plans to stamp out wasteful medical projects and establish teams of health inspectors to raise standards of hospitals and doctors, Health Minister Gao Qiang said on Saturday.

Gao told a meeting of health officials to “strictly control the construction scale and expansion rate of major public hospitals, and restrict hospitals from unapproved use of bank loans and investment to buy major medical equipment”, according to the semi-official China News Agency.

In recent years, medical bills have become a sore point for many Chinese, who rely on personal savings or rudimentary medical insurance to pay charges.

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