China has ambitious plans to expand its health care provider network. The recently announced government blueprint has provisions to build at least 2,000 county level hospitals, 2,400 health service centers in urban areas, as well as renovate 3,700 community clinics and 11,000 urban health service centers. These numbers are staggering, but so is the sheer […]
Category: Health Care
Cancer is on the rise in China.There were over 2 million new cases in 2007, according to the Ministry of Health, and many believe China’s health care system is unprepared to deal with this rising threat. According to Lucian Yu, CEO of China Renji, a company that equips and manages cancer treatment clinics within urban […]
China rejected foreign media reports pointing to the country as the source of the deadly swine flu outbreak, dismissing them as attempts to tarnish the nation’s image, the South China Morning Post reported. “The reports that are saying that the swine flu epidemic in Mexico originally came from China are groundless,” the Ministry of Agriculture […]
Our cover story for our upcoming issue explores business opportunities arising from China’s planned reform of its health care system. Over the course of reporting the story we interviewed a number of patients and doctors about their experiences with health care in China, much of which didn’t make it into the final version of the […]
The State Council has released details of a plan to revamp China’s health care system, the Wall Street Journal reported. Included in the US$123 billion plan, first announced in January, is an emphasis on construction of health care facilities – according to the plan, every village will have a medical clinic and every county at […]