Yunnan’s “15th Five-Year Plan” lays out border health and creates cross-border health service channels

China News Service, Kunming, November 6 (Reporter Li Jiaxian) Recently, the General Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province issued the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Health of Yunnan Province" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which will promote the expansion of opening up in the health field, continue to carry out "Small but Beautiful" projects such as "Brightness Travel" and "Love Travel", strengthen and innovate health foreign aid work, and deepen China (Yunnan)'s medical assistance to Uganda.

Yunnan is located in the southwest border of China, bordering Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam, with a border line of more than 4,000 kilometers. The "Plan" clearly states that we should accelerate the construction of "national gate disease control", run "national gate hospitals" well, improve the modern port public health system, improve multi-departmental and cross-regional joint prevention and control mechanisms, strengthen surveillance and early warning of imported diseases such as insect vectors and zoonotic diseases, improve the emergency response and rapid handling capabilities of border public health emergencies, and guard the public health gates at the southwest border.

Focusing on the facilitation of cross-border medical treatment, the "Plan" proposes to support border states and counties in orderly carrying out cross-border medical and health services, promote the construction of cross-border medical green channels, and expand cross-border commercial medical insurance services. Continue to select international medical service pilot institutions, carry out international medical insurance qualification certification, promote direct payment of commercial insurance, enhance medical service capabilities for South Asia and Southeast Asia, and expand the development space for international medical and health cooperation.

In terms of service capacity building, resource allocation is tilted towards border areas. Relying on the medical and health foundation project, we will continue to promote the sinking of high-quality medical resources, make good use of equipment such as patrol vehicles and mobile operating rooms, strengthen mobile medical care, and consolidate grassroots health services in border towns and villages. Improve the treatment chain for critically ill patients in border areas, improve pre-hospital first aid and emergency medical rescue systems, build a three-dimensional rescue network, and improve the ability to quickly handle sudden diseases and accidental injuries in border areas.

According to the "Plan", border health work will shift from focusing on epidemic prevention and control to coordinated development of "prevention and control, services, and opening up". Simultaneously build and strengthen the traditional Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine service systems, while building a strong biosecurity barrier, continue to provide full-cycle health services for border people, and use health protection to help revitalize border people, enrich people, and unite nationalities. (over)