A patient in Fuyang, Anhui province, thanks doctors after her cataract surgery. [Photo by Dai Wenxue/For China Daily] BEIJING -- China has made headway in improving medical services for vulnerable groups, including pregnant women, the newborn and the elderly, Health News reported. More than 6,400 treatment centers for pregnant women and newborns in critical situations were built last year, and such institutions are available in all regions at provincial and prefectural levels, the newspaper reported earlier this week. About 90 cities have carried out the pilot project of integrating medical and nursing services for the elderly, building nearly 4,000 elderly care institutions, it reported. A pilot program of Internet plus nursing is ongoing in six provincial-level regions, under which qualified medical institutions can use the Internet to receive nursing service applications and analyze the cases and then send nurses to communities or homes to serve patients who are too old or restricted by their diseases to move. Also, a program to help impoverished rural people with serious illnesses in treatment has been expanded to cover 21 kinds of diseases, according to the newspaper. cool rubber band bracelets with loomdebossed wristbandspersonalized rubber band braceletswhite rubber wristbandsbracelet montre silicone orange
China's national legislature on Saturday dismissed Yang Jing from his state councilor post after he was investigated for severe disciplinary violations.At its bimonthly session, the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress also voted to remove Yang from the post of secretary-general of the State Council.It came as the ruling party's disciplinary watchdog announced Yang's investigation.The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Yang was found to have severely violated political discipline and rules and had long-term improper association with illegal business owners and social personnel.Yang confessed to his wrongdoing and expressed remorse, it said, meting out punishments including one year probation within the Party, removal from his current administrative post and demotion to ministerial level.The disciplinary watchdog said the punishment, approved at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, would be implemented with due process.Yang, an ethnic Mongolian, was born in 1953. He worked a long political career in Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.In 2013, Yang was appointed state councilor and secretary-general of the State Council.He was also a member of the 18th CPC Central Committee Secretariat.
