The official death toll from explosions Wednesday at a chemical storage facility in Tianjin has risen to 112, with 95 more people missing, Bloomberg reported, citing state media. Among those missing are 85 firefighters, according to a Xinhua report. Officials acknowledged that first responders did not know what was on fire and doused the flames […]
Category: Health Care
Three-eights of the population of mainland China breathe air that would be rated “unhealthy” by American standards, contributing to an estimated 1.6 million deaths a year, The New York Times reported, citing a scientific paper released by statistical research organization Berkeley Earth. The paper also maps the geographic sources of China’s toxic air and concludes that […]
Over 10,000 residents in the outskirts of the Sichuan city of Nanchong were forced to evacuate this week when toxic liquid ammonia began leaking from a pipe at the nearby Chuanlong Chemical Company plant, South China Morning Post reported, citing local media. At least one middle-aged man passed out after inhaling the toxic gas about 100 […]
China’s State Council announced the country’s medical insurance would be expanded to cover half of the medical costs from critical illnesses by the end of 2015, Reuters reported. The aim of expanding the country’s health insurance was to “effectively alleviate poverty caused by illness” and to build a stronger universal health care system, the council said. Since […]
Chief executive officer of pharmaceutical conglomerate GlaxoSmithkline Andrew Witty maintained the company’s business in China is stabilizing even as he admitted that the country’s drug market had slowed dramatically over the last year, The Guardian reported. The firm’s sales in China fell 14% in the latest quarter, but Witty said this reflected price reductions which […]