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China plans health care system upgrade with focus on infectious disease

Source(s): South China Morning Post
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By Josephine Ma

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China’s state planning agency has unveiled a plan to build a network of new institutions to upgrade the health care sector over the next five years, with a focus on tackling infectious disease outbreaks.

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To tackle infectious diseases, the government will fund upgrades of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention at the national and provincial levels. Those aims include improving the ability of the national CDC to identify new pathogens quickly and handle outbreaks; provincial CDCs are to be provided with laboratories carrying a biosafety level of at least P3, so that coronaviruses can be handled.

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Beijing also plans to pour more resources into traditional Chinese medicine, another area Xi wants developed. The plan calls for 30 TCM innovation and research centres to be built, 35 facilities where TCM would be used during a disease outbreak, and 50 “flagship” hospitals where the use of TCM and Western medicine would be integrated.

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Hazards Epidemic and Pandemic
Themes Health and health facilities
Country and region China
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