Ping An Insurance (Group) will focus on the medical and healthcare industry in China, hoping to turn its coverage for the ageing society into an engine of growth for the next decade while coping with a more volatile asset management business. “The elderly care and the healthcare ecosystem are the […]
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China’s corruption crackdown rips through healthcare sector
In late July, doctors at a Shanghai hospital were called into work at 6.30am for an urgent meeting, expecting to be faced with a healthcare emergency. Instead, they were met by management, telling them the hospital would in September be placed under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, […]
Covid surge exposes China’s healthcare gap
Many rural residents flock to cities for hospital care they cannot get at home Patients with Covid-19 lie in beds at Tangshan Gongren Hospital in the northeastern city of Tangshan on Dec 30. (Photo: AFP) TANGSHAN, China: Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even […]
China’s first homegrown oral anti-COVID-19 drug removed from online sale
China-developed oral drug for COVID-19 treatment Azvudine China’s first domestically developed oral drug for COVID-19 treatment was removed from shelves of e-commerce platforms on Saturday, hours after media reported its online sale had started in some drugstores. Experts and China’s protocol for COVID-19 prevention and control suggested it is inappropriate […]