Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 10th. On August 10th, Xinhua Daily Telegraph published a comment entitled "Scraping bones to heal wounds" and returning medical care to the original intention of "treating diseases and saving lives".
In the past few days, the anti-corruption storm in the medical field has been widely concerned, and two sets of figures have sparked heated discussions: first, "CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection exposed a linear accelerator with a rebate of 16 million", and its high amount of corruption is shocking; Later, according to media statistics, at least 150 hospital presidents and secretaries have been investigated.
The common people have always hated corruption in the medical field, and increasing the crackdown has won wide support from the masses, which can be clearly seen from the reaction of netizens. Hospitals are noble places to heal the wounded and rescue the dying, but in recent years, medical corruption has become prominent, involving the purchase and sale of medicines, engineering construction, material procurement and other aspects, seriously affecting the credibility of the medical system and the rights and interests of patients. Judging from past cases, corruption in the medical field includes accepting kickbacks or bribes from medical representatives, falsely reporting expenses and conveying benefits in disguise. The field of medicine is closely related to the people. Corruption in this field will not only infringe on the rights and interests of patients, but also affect the safety and quality of medical care and the happiness of thousands of families. For example, the unhealthy trend in the circulation and use of medicine prevents good drugs with real curative effect and economy from entering the hospital, which increases the burden of patients’ medical treatment; When hospital managers or medical staff accept kickbacks or benefits, the health and well-being of patients may become victims. According to media reports, after the director of a hospital in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, who was involved in a case involving nearly 30 million yuan, the per capita medical cost of patients in this hospital dropped by more than 1,400 yuan.
It should be noted that corrupt elements in the medical system are a minority after all, and many medical staff with conscience and sense of justice also hate all kinds of medical corruption. For a long time, the fight against corruption in the medical field has not stopped, but cunning criminals always change their methods to try to escape the attack. With the increasing crackdown, the simple and rude bribery of sending money and goods directly has faded out of the rivers and lakes, and the "back-to-back" between some hospital leaders, medical care and enterprises has become more complicated and hidden, such as sponsoring so-called medical academic conferences, asking experts to give lectures, etc., and even taking bitcoin as the form of interest transfer. These "profiteering" chaos have affected the social reputation of the entire medical system and the normal operation of the medical industry. As the saying goes, a hospital director is corrupt, and a hundred good doctors can’t regain their trust. Therefore, the majority of medical care has high hopes for the anti-corruption storm.
The medical system is highly professional, relatively independent and closed. Corruption in the medical field may be separated from patients and even medical care by "several walls", so it is more concealed, and it is difficult to crack down, which takes a long time to make achievements. In May this year, 14 departments, including the National Health and Wellness Commission, jointly issued the Key Points of Correcting Unhealthy Practices in the Field of Medicine Purchase and Sale and Medical Services in 2023. In July, the National Health and Wellness Commission and other 10 departments jointly deployed and carried out a one-year centralized rectification of corruption in the medical field nationwide. At the end of July, the State Supervision Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held a mobilization meeting to deploy discipline inspection and supervision organs to cooperate with the centralized rectification of corruption in the national pharmaceutical field, emphasizing "in-depth systematic governance of the pharmaceutical industry in all fields, chains and coverage". All these have released the determination of medical anti-corruption to "deep water area".
From a higher perspective, in recent years, with the deepening of the reform of the medical and health system in China, the problems of "difficult and expensive medical treatment" among the masses have been further alleviated, and the problems of "supporting doctors with medicine" in public hospitals and "controlling water in Kowloon" in medical insurance management have been continuously solved … At present, it is timely to launch an anti-corruption storm in the medical field and earnestly carry out "scraping bones and healing". It is the common expectation of the whole society to let medical care return to the initial intention of "treating diseases and saving lives" and to give the medical system a clear sky.
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