It is better than it used to be, but still needs reform
next month, China’s medical institutions will face their “darkest hour”. This warning by Zhang Wenhong, a prominent doctor, has been circulated by state media. It reflects a view that not long ago would have been treated as heresy in “zero-covid” China. But with the virus now sweeping the country, including its hospitals, talk of crushing it has ceased. People are queuing for hours at fever clinics. Medical staff are falling sick in droves.
Under Xi Jinping, who became China’s leader a decade ago, public acknowledgment of policy error would be harder to imagine. Perhaps, he may feel, there is less need of one. Much has been done to remedy the problems thatA big one was the public’s fear of any contact with the health system because of the high cost of getting treated. Beforecommunity-level care had crumbled. Many state-owned enterprises and the rural “people’s communes” that had once provided health services had been dismantled.
As the virus runs rampant again, officials are trying to show they are better prepared. The city government in Beijing says that by the end of November—a week before the main mechanisms of zero-covid were dismantled—240 of the capital’s community health centres had set up fever clinics. Within another few days the remaining 110 or so had opened them, too.
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