Health Planning Commission: in 2017, more than 85% of the cities were equipped with family doctors for residents.

On May 10, the State Health Planning Commission held a regular press conference to introduce the contract service and nursing work of family doctors. High-quality nursing service has achieved full coverage of tertiary hospitals and gradually extended to communities and families. Guo Yanhong, deputy director of the medical administration of the state health planning commission, pointed out that by the end of 2016, the total number of registered nurses in China had reached 3.507 million, accounting for 42 percent of the professional and technical personnel of Health and Family Planning, an increase of 71.2 percent compared with 2010, the number […]