Shanghai Healthy City
5/3/2004 18:26
According to the World Health Organization, a healthy city is defined
as a place where living conditions promote good health and quality of
life. Shanghai is increasing efforts to become the nation's first
"Healthy City", meeting more than 90 percent of the health standards set
last
year, government officials said on March 4 at a working conference in
the health sector.
This year the local government will increase efforts
to implement the
three-year action plan, focusing on the hospital
section.
The city is encouraging both the establishment of prime hospitals
and
the transformation of sate-owned hospitals, while keeping non-profit
institutions as the main structure of the local health system, government
officials said.
The plan is to create a city where non-profit and profit
medical
facilities coexist.?It also wants to introduce competition so as to
meet the
differing demands and realize its goal of creating one of Asia's
leading medical centers.
In the primary plan, of the 500-odd local
hospitals, the government
should have 300-odd state-owned hospitals.?These
include one neighborhood
health center in every community, a district-based
medical center in
each district, and some city-level hospitals.
Moreover,
every district should have one hospital or clinic
specializing in Chinese
traditional medicine, one mental health center and one
infectious disease
hospital.
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