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The health authorities of China's northwestern province of Gansu have been enthusiastically promoting traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in their healthcare reform http://www.cheapvapormax2019.com/ , and have included TCM in the region's medical insurance system. However, their plan is being criticized by those who say China shouldn't forcefully push for the development of TCM until it's been tested by modern science.




A TCM practitioner prepares to perform acupuncture on a patient. Photo: IC


After rushing to a hospital to visit 22 children who had just been in a terrible car accident, Liu Weizhong immediately suggested the nurse give the children pig's feet soup to drink, especially the one who was still in coma.




The nurse Cheap Nike Air Vapormax Pink , who did not recognize Liu, director of the Gansu provincial Department of Health, said that the child is in gastric dilatation and should fast for four to five days. The director of the hospital told her to do what Liu said.




Later the child in the coma woke up and began to eat. Pig feet's soup then became a famous dish in Gansu, as people decided that the soup was the deciding factor in the children's recovery. Liu was ironically referred to by netizens as the "pig feet director."




Recalling the 2011 incident Cheap Nike Air Vapormax White , Liu, 58, told the Southern Weekly that he was taking a big risk. "What if the child died?" he said.




During his eight years with the Department of Health, he has always been in the center of controversies as he fervently promotes TCM not only in the province but also on his social media accounts Cheap Nike Air Vapormax Black , angering many medical professionals who doubt the efficacy of TCM.




While he is under fire, on April 11, Liu attended the monthly news conference of National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), where he touted Gansu's healthcare reform. As the NHFPC rarely allows a province to boast of its achievements at this kind of conference Cheap Nike Air Vapormax Sale , some analysts speculated that the commission was implicitly endorsing Gansu's pro-TCM measures.




However, it's still being debated whether TCM should be pushed by the government, because there are still some controversies about whether it's a legitimate form of therapy.






A staff member dispenses TCM herbal drinks to elderly people in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Photo: IC


Radical reform




When Liu started work at the Gansu provincial Department of Health in 2008 Cheap Nike Air Vapormax Triple White , he worried so much about Gansu's medical reform when he looked at its barren mountains. "Gansu is a poor province. So we have to use cheap methods," he said.




According to local statistics from 2007, in that year 70 percent of Gansu patients who needed hospitalization did not get any hospital treatment due to a shortage of funding.




"We don't have money, technology and there are too many patients. How can we reform our system?" said Liu.




After careful consideration Cheap Nike Air Vapormax Triple Black , he decided to promote TCM. The reasons are simple according to him: the medicines are cheap, people accept TCM, and he believes TCM can both treat and prevent diseases.




Pioneering reform to push TCM officially kicked off in Gansu in 2009. The province announced that locals would receive free TCM diagnoses and treatment and released dozens of policies to develop TCM.




The Gansu health department employed a propagandist for each village. These young people not only explained the policy to the locals but also painted walls with TCM factoids. So far, they have painted 71 Cheap Nike Air Vapormax 97 ,322 walls.




The health department also gave 4.8 million urban and suburban households TCM packages containing thermometers, scraping plates, cupping devices and other items.




Liu required the province's comprehensive first-class hospitals which at the time mostly offered Western medicine to establish TCM departments as well as TCM pharmacies. He ordered that at least 5 percent of their beds be made available for TCM patients.




At the beginning, Liu's policy was strongly opposed by the Gansu Provincial Cancer Hospital (GPCH). The doctors said that cancer patients need to go through surgery and radiotherapy. To them Cheap Nike Air Vapormax 2.0 , TCM is just an accessory to proven Western treatments.




Liu later changed the head of the GPCH, and many doctors in the hospital left. "More than 20 experts quit," he said.




In the interview with Southern Weekly, Liu said that now the GPCH has become a role model in promoting TCM. In the cancer hospital Cheap Nike Air Vapormax Online , TCM prescriptions are everywhere. In the wards, massage, acupuncture and foot baths are given to cancer patients.




Liu decided that grass-roots doctors need no medical education background

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