The Ministry of Health has just issued a ban on the use of flour bleaching agents. Yesterday, before the opening of the CPPCC meeting, Chen Zhu, Minister of Health and member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said in an interview with reporters that at present food additives mainly involve abuse issues. The Ministry of Health will continue to strengthen supervision. Abuse of unnecessary additives or inappropriate use of additives will be eliminated.
Chen Zhu also said that the goal of the "12th Five-Year Plan" is to ensure that people can use safe medicine. Basic drugs are not only about quantity but more importantly quality. Standards for the entire pharmaceutical industry, including medical devices, need to be improved.
Unnecessary additives will gradually be eliminated. When asked why the public is so concerned about food safety now, Chen Zhu said that the 2008 melamine incident had very serious consequences. Melamine is not a food additive but rather a criminal act of adding industrial materials into food.
Chen Zhu stated that currently additives mainly involve abuse problems, and the Ministry of Health is strengthening supervision. "Some so-called unnecessary additives will gradually be phased out," Chen Zhu said. For example, there is no necessity for flour bleaching agents. Since the public prefers natural flour, why must it be whitened? In the future, behaviors such as abusing unnecessary additives or improperly using additives will be banned, and the crackdown on food safety crimes will be intensified.
County hospitals will become a breakthrough point for healthcare reform. Regarding the issue of county-level hospitals being included in fiscal budgets that everyone is paying attention to, Chen Zhu said that currently many local and county finances have increased financial support for county hospitals. County hospitals bear the medical tasks for 70% of our country’s population, which is over 900 million people. If reforms can achieve a breakthrough, it will directly benefit the people. "This year, the task of public hospital reform is heavy, and county-level hospital reform will be used as a breakthrough."
In addition, the government's investment in medical expenses has increased. How to use the money well and increase reimbursement rates requires controlling medical costs, which is the top priority this year.
Privately owned hospitals funded by Taiwanese capital
Expected to be relaxed in the first half of the year
Chen Zhu said that currently, privately owned hospitals funded by Taiwanese capital already have successful cases on the mainland, and further relaxation is expected in the first half of the year. However, he emphasized that based on past experience, non-public hospitals funded by Taiwanese capital or private funds are mostly focused on high-end services. Therefore, the responsibility of reducing medical costs still falls on public hospital reform.
"The policy allowing foreign capital, including Taiwanese capital, to establish wholly-owned hospitals on the mainland will definitely become increasingly open. The entry of this part of medical resources mainly supplements the high-end demand market," Chen Zhu said. Taiwanese-funded hospitals have advantages in high-end services and some specialized fields. Future Taiwanese-funded hospitals entering the mainland market will mostly choose to operate commercial medical institutions.
Encouraging medical masters to run private hospitals
Chen Zhu said that regarding private capital entering the health care field, the main lack is not of funds but of talent. Building a hospital requires good management talent and top medical scientists, which cannot be solved overnight.
Regarding previous concerns within the industry about whether the entry of foreign or private hospitals into the medical market would impact public hospitals and lead to talent loss, Chen Zhu said: "This is not something to worry about. The Ministry of Health even supports and encourages medical masters to combine with private capital." For example, there are already precedents in places like Wuhan where senior medical talents independently run hospitals, mostly specialized hospitals, such as Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital.
Chen Zhu said that the current implementation of "senior doctors practicing in multiple locations" in regions like Beijing is actually to encourage the mobility of medical talents. Currently, the Ministry of Health is formulating policies, and relevant policies will be introduced this year.
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