(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Jilin provides double subsidies for medical staff sent to areas with severe epidemics

  China News Service, Changchun, January 26 (Tan Weiqi) The reporter learned from the fifth press conference on epidemic prevention and control held by the Information Office of the Jilin Provincial Government on the 26th that medical personnel sent to the most severely affected areas to participate in the frontline epidemic prevention and control Compared with the subsidy policy for medical teams in Hubei and Wuhan last year, Jilin Province doubled the state subsidy standard.

  Wang Huiqun, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Finance, introduced that since the outbreak of the epidemic last year, the Jilin Provincial Department of Finance has made every effort to ensure prevention and control costs based on two aspects: funds and policies.

  Wang Huiqun introduced that the finance of Jilin Province has formulated 53 financial policies related to epidemic prevention and control.

Up to now, the province's government at all levels has invested a total of 8.85 billion yuan in epidemic prevention and control subsidies. These existing policies will continue to be effective and effective.

  In response to the local epidemic in the province, Jilin immediately introduced relevant measures to fully support the prevention and control of the epidemic.

  According to Wang Huiqun, the Jilin Provincial Government decided to refer to the subsidies provided to medical teams in Hubei and Wuhan last year for medical personnel sent to Tonghua City and other places where the epidemic is more serious to participate in the prevention and control of the epidemic, while maintaining the existing subsidy policy. The policy is to double the national subsidy standard of 300 yuan and 200 yuan per person per day to reach 600 yuan and 400 yuan per person per day. The required funds are fully borne by the provincial government.

  Specifically, relevant personnel involved in diagnosis, treatment, nursing, hospital infection control, case specimen collection and pathogen detection, etc. will receive a subsidy of 600 yuan per person per day; for other medical personnel and epidemic prevention workers participating in epidemic prevention and control, each person 400 yuan per day.

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