China News Service, Beijing, February 28 (Wei Xianghui) What work in the medical reform in recent years has really benefited the people?

What work has been done in response to emergency response to infectious disease outbreaks?

In the face of current economic and social development and changes in the population age structure, what measures will be taken to support fertility?

On February 28, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the results of health progress.

Video: National Health Commission: The treatment rate for common and frequently-occurring diseases in the county reaches more than 90%

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Strengthen coordination in medical, medical insurance and pharmaceutical reform

　　"In recent years, the National Health Commission has actively played its leading and coordinating role in medical reform, and worked with relevant departments to strengthen the reform coordination of medical care, medical insurance, and medicine, and promote medical reform to achieve new results." Zhuang Ning, deputy director of the Department of Structural Reform of the National Health Commission express.

　　Zhuang Ning introduced that in terms of medical care, we will actively promote the expansion and balanced layout of high-quality medical resources.

Through the layout and construction of national medical centers, national regional medical centers, and provincial regional medical centers, we will build relevant key clinical specialties and solve the problem of cross-regional medical treatment for the masses.

According to statistics, the first four batches of 76 national and regional medical centers have built more than 460 specialties and developed more than 6,200 new medical technologies. The average number of patients transferred for medical treatment has dropped by about 30% compared with before the construction.

The treatment rate for common and frequently-occurring diseases in the county reaches over 90%.

Comprehensively promote the close county medical community and other work, integrate and optimize resources, and explore the provision of integrated and continuous medical and health services for the people.

　　In terms of medical insurance, the national medical insurance system has been further improved, the per capita financial subsidy standard for resident medical insurance has been increased to 640 yuan, and the general outpatient protection level of employee medical insurance has been continuously improved.

In terms of medicine, we will further expand the breadth and depth of centralized procurement of pharmaceutical consumables and further reduce falsely high prices.

Revise and improve the medical insurance drug catalog, improve the basic drug system, speed up the registration and listing of urgently needed clinically-short drugs, children's drugs, and innovative medical devices, and strive to meet the drug needs of the people.

　　"We will further promote Sanming's medical reform experience on a prefectural and municipal basis, so that the people will have a more tangible sense of gain from the reform." Zhuang Ning emphasized.

The average reporting time of the infectious disease network direct reporting system has been significantly shortened

　　Qin Xingqiang, deputy director of the General Affairs Department of the National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention, said that the central and local governments continue to improve the stable investment mechanism for disease control work.

Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", the central budget has allocated a total of 13.1 billion yuan to support the construction of a four-level disease control system at the national, provincial, municipal, and county levels.

In 2023, the central government will allocate 17.687 billion yuan in funds for disease control projects through transfer payments for prevention and control of major infectious diseases, endemic diseases, etc.

my country’s online direct reporting system for infectious diseases has shortened the average reporting time from 5 days to 4 hours.

　　A technical system for rapid identification of 300 pathogens within 72 hours has been established at the national level, and 100% of provincial and 90% of municipal CDCs have nucleic acid detection and virus isolation capabilities.

The vaccination rate of the immunization program remains above 90%, and the accessibility and convenience of vaccination services are continuously improved through reasonable distribution, online reservations, door-to-door services, etc.

　　In terms of prevention and control of major infectious diseases, the rapid rise of the AIDS epidemic in key areas has been effectively curbed, and the overall epidemic level has been controlled at a low level; the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis have been maintained at a low level; all counties where schistosomiasis is endemic have reached transmission interruption status.

Various vaccines such as measles, Japanese encephalitis, and meningitis can prevent the incidence of infectious diseases from reaching a historical low.

Vigorously develop inclusive childcare services

　　Yang Jinrui, deputy director of the Population and Family Department of the National Health Commission, said that currently, there are nearly 100,000 institutions providing childcare services across the country, with about 4.8 million child care places.

The National Health Commission works with relevant parties to promote the healthy development of child care services.

　　Yang Jinrui said that since the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Optimizing Fertility Policies and Promoting Long-term Balanced Development of Population" was issued in 2021, the National Health Commission and relevant departments have effectively implemented the central decision-making and deployment, focusing on economic support, service support, and time support. and cultural guidance and other aspects to actively promote and improve fertility support measures.

　　"In the next step, our committee will work with relevant departments to further implement the central decision-making and deployment, and coordinate various tasks. First, establish and improve a leadership coordination mechanism, track and judge the population situation, strengthen policy reserves, strengthen work supervision and dispatch, and ensure the implementation of tasks. The second is to vigorously develop inclusive childcare services, increase the supply of childcare places, improve service quality, improve the childcare talent training system, and promote the healthy development of childcare services. The third is to publicize the central government’s decision-making and deployment on population work, and publicize the fertility support policy system in various regions We should build good experiences and practices, advocate a positive outlook on marriage, love, childbirth, and family, carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, establish a mainstream orientation, and create a fertility-friendly social atmosphere," Yang Jinrui said.

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