Chinese medical experts suggested that people with infectious
diseases receive outside-hospital treatment, if their condition is
stable and not life-threatening.
With the deepening of medical insurance and system reform, doctors
and patients are more concerned with medi-care expenses. Experts
said that outside-hospital treatment will reduce the likelihood of
cross infection, which is very common during hospitalization.
Outside-hospital treatment includes the administering of injections
and medicine by clinic doctors and nurses, and treatment at
community transfusion centers.
Professor Chen Minjun from Beijing Union Medical College Hospital
said that outside-hospital treatment can help patients avoid
cross-infection and drug-fast bacteria in hospitalization.
Outside-hospital treatment is also less expensive and not as
time-consuming.
Chen also pointed out that outside-hospital treatment expenses are
limited within the medication cost, which is in accordance with the
newly implemented medical insurance and system reform.
Professor He Lixian from Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital noted that the
latest statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) said
that of the death population suffering diseases in the world, one
third are related to infectious diseases.
He
said that outside-hospital treatment of infectious disease is
common in developed countries, and it is also accepted in Shanghai
where community services have matured.
(Xihua 01/03/2001)