Baishan Fusong, Jilin Province, buys medical insurance for village doctors

Since the end of 2017, the Fusong County government in Baishan City, Jilin Province, has earmarked 100,500 yuan to purchase medical liability insurance for 119 local rural doctors.
"Our previous policies were more pro-people and not many universal health care workers. Li Jinquan, deputy director of Fusong County Health and Family Planning Bureau, said that among health care workers, rural doctors play an important role in ensuring the fairness and accessability of public health services for rural residents by providing basic medical and health services to the broad masses of farmers at the grass-roots level. At present, the biggest and most difficult difficult difficulty for rural doctors is not the difficult working conditions, nor the poor medical equipment, but the unforeseeable medical risks.
In order to alleviate the worries of local rural doctors, since the end of 2017, the county Health and Family Planning Bureau coordinated the medical dispute mediation committee in Baishan City, Jilin Province, organized all village health clinic village doctors in the jurisdiction, and signed the 2018 Medical Liability Insurance Agreement with three insurance companies. According to the number of people under the jurisdiction, the insured amount ranges from 500 yuan to 2000 yuan, the amount of compensation is 50,000 yuan to 400,000 yuan, the total amount of insurance is 10.05 million yuan, the insurance costs are all allocated by the county finance.
it is learned that the county will also be through the risk cost and insurance rates linked to the way to enhance the medical security precautions to form constraints, enhance their risk awareness, strengthen medical safety, reduce the rate of medical accidents. (Health News)