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Chinese health facilities receive 8.18b patients!

BEIJING: Chinese health facilities provided diagnosis and treatments for 8.18 billion patient visits in 2017, increasing by 3.2 percent year on year, according to China’s National Health Commission.

The country saw improved quality of diagnosis and treatments, with a steady decline in the mortality of hospitalized patients for 16 diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cerebral infraction, according to Guo Yanhong, an official with the commission, at a news conference Friday.

In the Lancet’s newly released Health Care Access and Quality Index, China’s worldwide ranking rose to 48th in 2016 from 60th in 2015. “During the 12th Five Year Plan period (2011-2015), 6 billion yuan (937 million U.S. dollars) of China’s financial input benefited 1,231 key clinical specialties in 314 hospitals, with greater attention paid to grassroots facilities and areas in central and western China,” Guo said.

Roughly half of China’s county-level hospitals are now capable of sophisticated operations, including for brain tumors and on the cervical vertebra.

Relevant pieces published earlier:

i) The US embassy in China issued a new health alert for its citizens on Friday after more US government employees were evacuated from the country over fears they may have been hit by a mysterious illness. American officials sent a medical team to the southern city of Guangzhou last month after an employee attached to the consulate there was diagnosed with brain trauma after experiencing strange sounds. The case revived fears that a US rival has developed some kind of acoustic or microwave device after similar symptoms were reported among American diplomats and their families in Cuba in 2016. The US embassy’s latest health alert, the second in two weeks, said that following voluntary medical screenings, the State Department “has sent other individuals to the United States for further evaluation”.

The message urges staff and family members to contact their healthcare provider if they experience “any unusual, unexplained physical symptoms or events, auditory or sensory phenomena, or other health concerns. “Symptoms to be attentive for include dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, fatigue, cognitive issues, visual problems, ear complaints and hearing loss, and difficulty sleeping,” the alert says. The message urges people to “not attempt to locate the source of any unidentified auditory sensation” and instead move to a different location. A US embassy spokeswoman told AFP that the medical screenings in Guangzhou were “ongoing”. (8th of June, 2018)

ii) A US government employee in China suffered brain trauma linked to “abnormal sounds” that resembled the still-unexplained injuries that befell US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba last year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday. US and Chinese authorities are investigating the unnamed employee, who was assigned to the southern city of Guangzhou, was diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). The US embassy in Beijing issued a health alert Wednesday over the incident while saying it did not know what caused the symptoms or of any similar situations in the country.

Last year 24 US diplomats and their family members in Cuba fell victim to a mysterious attack that left them with injuries resembling brain trauma. Ten Canadian diplomats and their relatives also suffered a strange illness. Both countries scaled back their diplomatic presence on the Caribbean island due to the problem, which continues to baffle investigators and has strained US diplomatic relations with Havana. “The medical indications are very similar and entirely consistent with the medical indications that have taken place to Americans working in Cuba,” Pompeo said in Washington. “We are working to figure out what took place both in Havana and now in China as well,” he added. (24th of May, 2018) 

iii) China minister says US staffer injury ‘individual case,’ not to be ‘politicized’. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Y i said Wednesday the US should avoid politicizing the case of a US employee who suffered brain trauma similar to the mysterious injuries experienced by US diplomats in Cuba.”We don’t want to see that this individual case would be magnified, complicated or even politicized,” said Wang, in Washington for talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Early Wednesday the US embassy in Beijing issued a warning after reporting that an employee in the southern city of Guangzhou was diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) apparently linked to “abnormal sounds.” “China has been investigating this matter in a very responsible manner,” Wang said in a press conference with Pompeo. “We haven’t found that any organization or individual has carried out such a sonic influence.”

 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.