英闻天下——560 Advisors: Public Hospital System Needs Improving
英语课
During the past three years, China has adopted different reform measures in pilot government-run hospitals throughout the country.
The core principle of the reform is to provide basic health care as a "public service," including improving the way of seeing doctors.
However, the reform still cannot be fully 2 implemented 3 nationwide with increasing complaints about high medical costs, especially costs for unnecessary medical tests and prescription 4 drugs by large public hospitals.
Yang Jinsheng is a researcher at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.
"There's no trans-hospital network about the in-hospital information of patients. Patients go to different hospitals to see doctors, and hospitals only rely on their own treatments. So patients are asked to do many medical tests if they change hospitals."
However, sometimes such unnecessary costs are charged due to a pursuit of profit.
Public hospitals in China enjoyed full government funding before 1985. But the situation changed as they embarked 5 on a market-oriented reform as economic reform and opening up policy was adopted in late 1978.
The market-oriented reform greatly improved medical service, but also resulted in soaring costs for medical services and drug prescriptions 6.
Sun Fengyuan, vice 1 president of the Tianjin First Center Hospital, suggests the government offer a compensation mechanism 7 to public hospitals.
"Hospitals should be institutions working for the public welfare, and should have some basic guarantees. Now they only rely on themselves to make profits. It's difficult to control. If they don't make money on prescription drug sales, they may have difficulties in economic turnover 8. But if the government offers compensation, there's no need to do so."
Sun also suggests an equal distribution of medical resources so that small hospitals can also provide quality treatment for patients. This will also help reduce the long waiting hours before seeing doctors in big hospitals.
He Wei, president of He's Medical University in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, agrees.
He says building a team of quality medical workers at county-level hospitals can be one of the solutions.
"It's a rapid way to strengthen the training of fundamental medical workers. And at the same time send quality medical resources to the grassroots. Neither of the two can be dispensed 9 with."
He also suggests the government further open the medical sector 10 to private investors 11, hoping that medical costs could drop through competition.
For CRI, I'm Qi Zhi.
1 vice
n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
2 fully
adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
3 implemented
v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效
- This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句
4 prescription
n.处方，开药；指示，规定
- The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
- The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
5 embarked
乘船( embark的过去式和过去分词 )； 装载； 从事
- We stood on the pier and watched as they embarked. 我们站在突码头上目送他们登船。
- She embarked on a discourse about the town's origins. 她开始讲本市的起源。
6 prescriptions
药( prescription的名词复数 )； 处方； 开处方； 计划
- The hospital of traditional Chinese medicine installed a computer to fill prescriptions. 中医医院装上了电子计算机来抓药。
- Her main job was filling the doctor's prescriptions. 她的主要工作就是给大夫开的药方配药。
7 mechanism
n.机械装置；机构，结构
- The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
- The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。
8 turnover
n.人员流动率，人事变动率；营业额，成交量
- The store greatly reduced the prices to make a quick turnover.这家商店实行大减价以迅速周转资金。
- Our turnover actually increased last year.去年我们的营业额竟然增加了。
9 dispensed
v.分配( dispense的过去式和过去分词 )；施与；配（药）
- Not a single one of these conditions can be dispensed with. 这些条件缺一不可。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage. 他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》