China Economic ReviewChina will spend Yn11bn on new aid centres and hospitals for infectious diseases to address flaws in the healthcare system revealed during the Sars crisis earlier this year, China Dailysaid. The new system will take about three years to build and will attempt to redress the imbalance in the current allocation of funds, which means […]
China's programme of providing free Aids drutgs to HIV-infected farmers is flawed because the drugs are old and there are not enough doctors capable of administering them, AFP reported. Earlier this year. China began manufacturing the drugs, older ver-sions whose patents had expired. and in April it started giving them to patients in various central […]
The spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) is presenting a huge economic and political challenge to the Chinese government, which was widely criticised for its initial handling of the crisis. This new disease, for which there is no known cure, first appeared in Guangdong province last November before spreading to Hong Kong and overseas. […]
The Chinese government decided to impose a media blackout on the outbreak of severe acute respiratory illness (Sars) between the appearance of the first cases in November and March, when the spread of the disease in Hong Kong forced it to receive a team from the World Health Organisation. By April 16, the mainland had […]
Stung into action by the worsening Sars situation, President Hu Jintao held crisis talks on April 13 with Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa. Tung admitted that the disease had not been brought under "effective control" in Hong Kong. Hu said he was "very worried" by the situation. China's newly appointed premier Wen Jiabao showed […]