REFORM

Li: Govt will boost input for healthcare

Premier says WHO, World Bank and China can jointly push reforms

To provide better healthcare services, the Chinese government will increase its input and encourage social capital to enter the industry, Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday.

These moves would help to minimize patients' out-of-pocket expenses, effectively prevent and cure diseases, and create more quality healthcare resources, Li said.

The biggest change in China's industrial restructuring is to develop its service industry, and the healthcare sector could take the leading role to benefit all citizens and boost growth, he said.

Li made the remarks during a meeting with Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, and Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization.

Hospital head pleads for patience with medical reforms

The president of the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital called on the public to be more patient with the development of China's medical reform.

"It is still a baby who needs time to become mature," Grace Tang told reporters at a news conference on July 15 to mark the hospital's second anniversary.

Hospitals to adopt liability insurance

A majority of Chinese hospitals will introduce liability insurance programs by the end of 2015, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said on Friday.

The commission said all third-grade hospitals and at least 90 percent of second-grade hospitals should have adopted the programs by the end of 2015.