Health: pediatric woes could not be addressed on price alone

Luo Zhihua (doctor)

Release date: 2013-08-09

Source: health

        Children less dose, less auxiliary examination, fewer fees, pediatric income significantly lower than other departments, lead to medical students don't want to work in pediatrics, pediatric hospital development enthusiasm is not high. On July 14, the reporter learns from the Beijing municipal health bureau, Beijing will be first, from the perspective of the pediatric medical service price adjustment, at present, the city health department and the national development and reform commission is to the discussion of related work and research. The Beijing times (July 15)

        Pediatric medical service price adjusting, speak directly, is the pediatric medical service is going to rise. Medical students would not like to work in pediatrics, pediatric reluctant to hospital development, indeed need through interest adjustment to mobilize enthusiasm, but prices achieved by service interests adjustment, not only cannot solve the problem, it will increase the difficulty and high cost of treatment.

        First of all, pediatric medical service prices can increase how much space? Children need to a fever of eight hundred thousand. Pediatric shout "lost" on one hand, on the one hand, parents shouted "expensive", if ignored the fact that still crustily skin of head, can fuel discontent, intensifies the doctor-patient contradiction.

        Second, can increase the project is not much. Pediatric and other departments have many common standards, such as drug prices and auxiliary examination, not into people and children are the same price, so this part can't rise, or social phenomena, has formed the situation in which rose a mess. Children can rise, can only be unique to the medical service, and these projects are very few, even if all doubled, such as a drop in the bucket.

        Adjust pediatric medical service price is not only short of effect, but may drive the other medical service price rising quickly, the result would be that price increase income has attracted more and more medical students to join the team in pediatrics, on the contrary make more patients to join to look down on disease. In order to improve the medical service price to solve the dilemma in pediatrics, did not touch the root of the problem.

        Lack of money at the root of pediatrics, is the result of inadequate investment, irrational investment allocation. Department of pediatrics is practies, should to the policy subsidies to fill. Therefore, straighten out into, is the right way to solve the problem. Fiscal subsidies, in the hospital can control rationing practies larger department some share, solve the problem of hospital development of these departments' enthusiasm is not high. And hospitals should take financial input and the hospital business income, more assigned to pediatric department, make these departments from policy-related losses "policy profit", can attract more and more medical students.

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