In December 2013, the Ministry of Health issued the "Ten Principles of Drug Use", of which the second clearly stipulates that "follow the principle of not using drugs if they can be used, not using more if they can be used sparingly, not injecting drugs if they can be taken orally, and not injecting drugs if they can be injected into the muscle". In addition, the national level did not introduce other infusion policy.
Jiangsu Province issued a "notice on further strengthening the management of the clinical application of antimicrobial drugs", put forward on July 1, 2016, the province's hospitals above the second level (in addition to children's hospitals) comprehensively stop outpatients intravenous infusion of antimicrobial drugs; by the end of the year, the province's hospitals above the second level (in addition to children's hospitals) comprehensively stop outpatients intravenous infusion. Jiangsu Province has become the first province in the country to stop outpatient infusion.
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The outpatient clinic does not provide infusion, is the international medical practice, this common sense has been more and more people in the country familiar with. However, in China, not only do large hospital outpatient clinics and community clinics provide infusion services, but even some barefoot doctors in the countryside provide home infusion services.
In front of the lingering temptation of profit, many hospitals and doctors from the infusion of profit, unfortunately, society as a whole is paying the per capita annual infusion of 8 bottles, the country's annual infusion of 10.4 billion bottles of the price, this cost is obviously not only the cost of access to health care to the simple question of upward, but also include the misuse of antibiotics has led to the disaster of the country's immune system decline.
To stop the overuse of fluids and the abuse of antibiotics, it is not enough for health departments to issue so-called medication principles. Especially under the current system, it is unrealistic to rely solely on hospitals and doctors to reduce infusion on their own.
Therefore, strengthening the control of infusion in hospitals requires more systematic design and supervision of implementation. And Jiangsu province with a policy across the board approach, at this time it is very powerful. Then, other provinces and regions, including some hospitals, should be proactive in the "outpatient infusion" of life.
People's Daily Online - very point of view: call off outpatient infusion need more areas to follow up