Ma Defu, a 64-year-old resident of the Nanmen community in Jinshan Township, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, suffered a heart attack in May this year and underwent heart bypass surgery at the Lufeng County People's Hospital. The total **** cost was more than 200,000 yuan, and about 150,000 yuan was reimbursed through medical insurance, he said.
"It would have been impossible for Lufeng County People's Hospital to do this surgery four years ago, and patients could only go to big hospitals for treatment, and the cost was very high." Lufeng County People's Hospital President Liu Ruyan said.
Today, including Lufeng County People's Hospital, many primary medical institutions in Yunnan are able to carry out more difficult surgeries, and the capacity and level of medical services have been greatly improved. With the increase in reimbursement rates for basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents, more and more patients, like Ma Defu, can afford to see a doctor.
"Let the people afford to see a disease, see a good disease, convenient to see a doctor" behind the Yunnan Province vigorously implement a comprehensive reform of the health care system: universal health insurance system to speed up the sound, the province's participation (co-operation) rate has continued to stabilize at more than 95%; the province's implementation of counties, townships and villages in the construction of medical and health institutions more than 6,800 projects; The province's public hospitals have all abolished the drug markup, the problem of inflated drug prices has been brought under control; in the province to promote the family doctor contracting services; sub-regional and hierarchical formation of various forms of medical consortiums, to promote the construction of a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system ......
In addition to this, Yunnan focuses on the field of health poverty alleviation, by improving the basic medical insurance, major disease insurance, medical assistance, government touting mechanism, the introduction of 30 reform initiatives, to carry out health poverty alleviation project, effectively help about 448,200 people out of poverty. At present, the province has implemented the "one-stop" instant settlement of hospitalization deposits, first-consultation-and-treatment fees, and "one-stop" settlement for hospitalization within the county; there is no starting line for hospitalization in township hospitals; and through the basic medical insurance scheme and other complementary measures, the actual reimbursement ratio of medical expenses for the rural poor has risen to 80 per cent. The capacity and accessibility of medical and health services in impoverished areas have been continuously improved.