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Ye Lianxi, a resident of the village of Yaole in south China'sGuangdong province, goes to the Liaobu Township Community HealthService Center at least once a month for health examinations. Ye, a woman in her 50s, was diagnosed with hypertension during ageneral health screening offered by the township's community healthcenter in Liaobu, a township in the city of Dongguan, in 2009. Shemay have never known she had the chronic disease had she notreceived the check-up. Doctors advised her to undergo health check-ups, obtain medicineand learn about hypertension every month in the center. "If I miss a visit, the doctor calls me and reminds me to come,"she said. The health center in Liaobu is just one of 390 community healthservice organizations in the manufacturing hub of Dongguan. Thecity government launched a new community health service reformationin 2007, and has since established 33 community health servicecenters in its townships and 357 community health service stationsin villages. Dongguan has also implemented a basic social medical insurancesystem, allowing residents to be reimbursed for 70 percent of thecost of treatments in designated local community health servicecenters or stations. "I had to pay 200 to 300 yuan (32 to 48 U.S. dollars) for eachexamination before the insurance. But now, I only need to pay lessthan 70yuan," said Ye. Ye said it only takes her 10 minutes to walk to the center, whichis more convenient than going to the hospital in the city and it ismore likely that she will be able to see a doctor here than in aprivate clinic. Wan Qiaoling, an official with the Dongguan Health Bureau, said thecommunity health service system was once under great pressure aspeople worried that it would reduce outpatient visits in hospitals. "Outpatient visits to the hospitals didn't drop as the amount ofoutpatient visits to community health service centers hasincreased. Because the foundation of the community health servicecenters allows more people who didn't know how to see a doctor,refused to see a doctor or could not afford medical expenses, tocome to receive treatment," said Wan. Statistics from the Dongguan Health Bureau show that the number ofoutpatient visits to the city's community health serviceinstitutions totaled over 14.3 million in 2011, up 17.9 percentyear-on-year and accounting for 24 percent of the total number ofmedical institutions' outpatient visits in Dongguan. Besides basic medical care, community health service institutionsin Dongguan also cover a range of public health services, includinghealth record management, health education and chronic diseasemanagement for diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Moreover, the 16 village-level health service stations affiliatedwith the community health service center of Liaobu township jointlyset up eight hypertension clubs to carry out blood pressuremonitoring, lifestyle counseling, medical guidance and weeklyopportunities for patients to meet and share their experiences. Liao Jinpeng, a doctor with the Community Health Station of thevillage of Fuzhushan in Liaobu, is in charge of the chronic diseasepublicity work for 340 hypertension patients and 80 diabetics. Liao has come to the village to visit patients twice a week since2009, and villagers there like to call him "Doctor Goubujiao,"which means that even the dogs know him so well that they won'tbark at him. "The work is hard, but worthwhile," Liao said. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Standby UPS , Modified Sine Wave Power Inverter Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit 3 Phase Online UPS today!
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