According to Vice President of the . hospital can’t afford medicine

continue our coverage of medical system reform. In January this year, health reform pilot provinces of Ningxia Hui autonomous region as a national universal access to basic health services, took the lead in starting a basic health services for all pilot, pilot of Ningxia in the Ministry of health hopes to provide reference for national health reform. Health reform to the front of the other provinces of Ningxia, people here on Earth than everyone can step out of the trouble of visiting doctor being difficult and expensive to do?

three harmonized system reform has been implemented for three years in Ningxia, solve visiting doctor being difficult and expensive?

first people’s Hospital in yinchuan city, this reporter met Chen Xilian several, such as a cold fever is tube fed patients.

Chen Xilian in patients with: cold.

Reporter: playing for a few days? How much money is spent?

Chen Xilian: 6 days, took over more than 1000 dollars.

Reporter: your doctor how much money is spent?

patients: nearly 1000.

reporters found that the infusion room, a cold fever infusion in patients with a total of 11, in which 8-bit, including Chen Xilian patients, treatment costs more than $ 1000, 1 patient treatment time for two days, costs of treatment for the $ 430, 2 from the referral of patients to other hospitals, treatment costs more than $ 2000.

patients: cold took 3,000, medical expenses, we are all wage, are more than 1000 dollars a month, three thousand or four thousand entered the hospital, is more than 2000 Yuan, who can afford to.

this reporter learned that, to curb high drug prices, Ningxia Autonomous Region implemented in 2006 the public bidding for hospital medicine three uniform policy, centrally by the autonomous regional government tenders, unified price, unified distribution, for three years, Ningxia results on health reform, drug prices have fallen sharply 40% throughout the region, but in an interview, Chen Xilian, who told reporters that they did not feel the doctor less.

Chen Xilian: does not decrease, because in the past were often cold, no more than 1000.

medicine prices, ever does the doctor costs decline? First people’s Hospital in yinchuan City Finance Dept, this reporter has learned that a set of statistical data.

first people’s Hospital Chief, finance section in yinchuan Si Xinning: 2003, each outpatient attendances at the level of fees was $ 131.48, fee levels per bed day charge is $ 341.62, 2008 outpatient visits and its level of $ 180, $ 390 per bed day charge levels, by 37.4%, has been rising year by year.

in pharmaceutical branch reporter learned that, three unified policy implementation Hou, drug price average fall does over has 40%, like Luo erythromycin, yiqian is sold 32 Yuan money, now unified tender zhihou, introduced has another a enterprise production of with specifications of Luo erythromycin, only sold 3.3 Yuan four min money, price drop has 10 times times, but let reporter wonder of is, why drug price drop has, doctor of costs is improve has does? Chen Xilian and others that cost over $ 1000 worth of treatment, what was spent in place?

Chen Xilian: is the infusion, medicine as well as checks.

statistics found that 11 people with colds, undergo a chest and blood tests to check average check fee is $ 140, in addition, is the cost of medicines, an average of 700 Yuan.

patients: let your infusion and let your medicine, drug assisted by many, because some runny nose and he has a special treatment of runny nose, cough headache, drug he is separated from the, you a box of the cartridges, the great high drug prices.

reporter understanding to, currently basic drug directory inside, effect similar but price difference several times and dozens of times times of may alternative drug has many, to antibiotics for cases, price from several angle money to dozens of Yuan money . ranged, most your of a is more than 70 more Yuan money, and statistics found, in this 11 bit patients in the, has 10 a people injection of is price 30 Yuan above of antibiotics, 1 people injection of is price 78 Yuan of antibiotics, several angle money to 20 Yuan money of head spore unmanned using.

patients: Open medicine is better, hanging more than 250 dollars a day, he leads you spend, higher consumption.

drug unified procurement, and unified price, and unified distribution of three unified system reform in Ningxia has implementation has three years, squeeze off has drug price in the of many water, but we also see, drug price sharply fell zhihou, but patients to hospital only opened to price expensive of drug, cheap points of drug fundamental see does not to shadow, doctor of actual spent does not drop anti-increased, hospital opened drug of when why so despise the poor and curry favour with the rich does? Hospitals also have their troubles. Reporter: do you think $ 1000 a cold expensive not expensive?

Vice President of the first people’s Hospital in yinchuan Du Qinchuan: enough expensive, I catch a cold, I don’t take any medicine, I have hard shoulders.

Reporter: why?

Du Qinchuan: I do not spend this money, it’s that he was carrying.

Du Qinchuan yinchuan, was Vice President of the first people’s Hospital, he told reporters, as a medical worker, he is also very much hope that patients see a doctor can be cheaper, but what he is, the hospital has three consecutive years of fiscal deficit, if now open near the source of money to the patient’s clinical, hospital will just have to close.

Du Qinchuan: Hospital account now so to speak, without a penny, to this extent, all of our accounts is red, which is what a loss, there is no way.

the Finance Dept, the reporters saw the revenue and expenditure of the hospital for several years.

first people’s Hospital Chief, finance section in yinchuan Si Xinning: continuous losses in recent years, it was in 2006, the lost, more than 1 million, 2007 lost $ 9.9 million, 2008 is also a loss, it was in 2008, the 2008 revenue was 226 million, expenditure was 230 million, losing $ 3.8 million.

reporter note to, hospital income of 226 million, has three a sources, part is financial grants income 39.6 million Yuan, accounted for revenue of 10%, part is medical income 86.29 million Yuan, accounted for 40%, third part is drug income 137 million Yuan, accounted for revenue of 50%, Si Xinning describes said, looks hospital a income more than 200 million, actually is a imaginary, this three part among, revenue is Government allocated of 40% Employee’s salary, how much to spend, no savings, no small number of medical income while the second part, these revenues arrive in not spending on health care, every year is a loss, hospitals make more money is actually the pharmaceutical drug income 15% bonus.

Du Qinchuan: US drug income is 100 million, 100 million of the is, 15 million, probably on this number.

reporters wondering however is, apart from medicine, the hospital will also charge a registration fee, inspection fee, laboratory fees, surgical expenses such as fees, why these projects were not brought to the hospital profit?

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