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Dorival, 55, agreed to personal terms on Wednesday after two days of negotiations, club president Carlos Silva said on Twitter.
It is understand he will be tied to the club until at least December 2018.
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The former goalkeeper led the club to 14 victories, 10 draws and 11 defeats during his six months in charge.
Dorival was sacked as coach of Sao Paulo's Serie A rivals Santos in June.
Three doctors in Shanghai have been suspended from duty and are under investigation following a drug kickback scandal exposed by CCTV over the weekend.
The report showed that doctors in six hospitals in Shanghai and Hunan Province took bribes from medicine sales representatives, who said the kickback amounted to about 30 to 45 percent of the medicines’ price.
The Shanghai Commission of Health and Family Planning said yesterday it had ordered hospitals exposed in the report to conduct checks and pledged anyone who had committed irregularities would be punished.
The commission said the medicines exposed in the program were no longer used and an investigation was under way. It ordered district health authorities and medical institutions in Shanghai to conduct self-checks and a rectification. A half-year inspection of the whole industry has also been launched.
China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission said yesterday it had sent inspection teams to Shanghai and Hunan in the wake of the incident.
A doctor in Hunan has been suspended from duty by authorities there, according to the national commission.
CCTV footage showed a doctor in Shanghai receiving a 1,800 yuan (US$260) bribe from a drug sales agent for prescribing 150 boxes of a medicine in a month. In another case Obi Melifonwu Limited Jersey , a drug representative gave envelopes to three doctors at a hospital within an hour.
A drug agent can get a bonus of around 10 percent from the medicine prescribed, the report said. The undercover investigation followed nearly 100 medicine representatives at four hospitals in Shanghai over eight months.
The TV report did not identify any of the hospitals by name.
The report started with a group of mysterious “special patients” at a Shanghai hospital that has more than 4 million outpatients a year. It said these “patients” had no medical records but showed up at similar times every day.
They only walked into consulting rooms when there were no actual patients inside. The bogus patients — the drug representatives — were seen checking doctors’ prescription tallies on their computers, CCTV footage showed.
A drug agent, who said he had lost his smartphone, was told by a doctor he would soon be able to buy an iPhone 6 from his illicit gains.
The drug representatives visited the hospitals on a daily basis in the hope that doctors would prescribe more of their products Gareon Conley Limited Jersey , the report said. It showed they gave “envelopes” to doctors after entering consulting rooms. One doctor received envelopes from four representatives within three minutes, the footage revealed.
“This medicine used to treat allergic rhinitis is priced at 129 yuan at Huashan Pharmacy, and the kickback (to a doctor) is 45 yuan,” a representative said.
Another representative said bribes amounted to 30 to 45 percent of the medicine’s price.
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The footage showed a doctor in a hospital in Changsha, capital city of Hunan, showing displeasure that his kickback was not sufficient — the going rate is a minimum 20 percent of the drug’s cost.
“It should be at least 20 percent higher,” the doctor was filmed as saying. “Others offer more than 30 percent, and how could you compete with them? The price of the drug is so high Kolton Miller Limited Jersey , and you are such a big company, which is hard to understand,” he complained.
The report also compared the prices with the market rate of five drugs, with the biggest gap shown as being over 10 times.
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BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) issued a new type of credit card on Friday targeting China's young mothers, a growing group known for their love of shopping and their greater say in the family budget.
The cards focus on the needs of new mothers with children up to the age of six by offering discounts on major baby product brands and early education institutions.
Liu Guiping Womens Karl Joseph Jersey , business director of ABC, said the bank is counting on female clients in cities to upgrade the bank's credit card services. The new services will focus on consumer experience, Liu added.
ABC is not the first bank to show interest in China's female consumers. The country's leading banks, including China CITIC Bank and China Everbright Bank, have already offered cards geared toward women.
Along with traditional financial services Womens David Sharpe Jersey , the cards offer discounts or incentives for purchases related to "female industries," such as health, salons, cosmetics, clothing and accessories.
The banks have targeted Chinese women not only for their personal consumption but also due to their growing role in managing family assets.
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