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| Part One Macro Environment for Foreign Investment in Shanghai |
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5. Living Environment
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5.2 Medical Service |
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| 5.2.1 Health care System
During the 10thfive-Year, Shanghai increased its health institutions by 15.5% y-o-y. Shanghai focused on structuring a city health care system composed of new-type medical service system, disease prevention and control system and health monitoring system. The medical service system gradually converted from a three-level city medical network to a two-level structure of hospitals and community health service centers. At the end of 2005, there were in the city 2452 medical institutions of various categories, of which 487 were hospitals (19 Sino-foreign equity or cooperative joint venture medical institutions), and 89.3 thousand beds were practically open with 94.04% of effective treatment rate for hospitalized patients. Shanghai is strengthening its cooperation with international brand medical institutions, and striving to build a medical center city of the first rate in Asia by 2010. |
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| 5.2.2 Medical Services for Overseas Patients
Shanghai provides foreigners with various kinds of medical services to meet their different requirements. All the medical institutions open to the society provide domestic and overseas patients including compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese with medical services of equal national treatment, and have uniform charge standards for medical services to domestic and foreign patients. Domestic and foreign patients may select of their own free will common medical services or specially required medical services when they seek medical services in medical institutions, who must not induce or force the patients to receive specially required medical services and impose on overseas patients charges different from those for domestic patients. Some medical institutions with special consulting departments or special-requirement wards may provide all-inclusive medical services. |
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| 5.2.3 Foreign Doctors Practicing in Shanghai
In accordance with
Rules on Administration of Foreign Doctors Practicing Medicine for Short Terms in China , the registration of foreign doctors practicing medicine for short terms in China is valid for less than a year, and in case the registration requires extension on its expiry, reregistration procedures may be handled in accordance with the Rules .
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