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Profiteering medical service slammed Chinese Health Minister Gao Qiang has slammed some medical services that blindly pursue profit even at the expense of the public's interests.
He made the remarks when recently delivering a report on current sanitation situation in China. He said the expensive cost of seeing a doctor is one of the major problems for the public. Some medical institutions jack up the price, tarnishing the image of medical staff and the health industry. The Health Ministry statistics show that over the past eight years, the resident income growth is far behind the growth in the cost for access to clinics and hospitalization which increased by 13 percent and 11 percent annually. Between 2000 and 2003, the number of patients dropped by nearly five percent while hospitals' income was increased by some 70 percent. He noted that some public hospitals have gradually become more market-orientated. They have begun to depend on the public's medical fee. Medical fees make up nearly half of hospital's finances. Gao Qiang said the medical fee is used not only for the cost of medical treatment and medicine but also for medical staff's salary, building wards and medical equipment. Based on statistics, 56 percent of the total health expenditure is supported by residents in 2003, with 17 percent from the government and 27 percent from enterprises. Gao Qiang said the unreasonable proportion is mainly due to insufficient management and inadequate supervision of medical services.
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