A historic breakthrough has been made in the prevention and control of endemic diseases in China
2022-09-19
According to the news conference held by the National Health Commission a few days ago, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has comprehensively implemented the key action of endemic disease prevention and control, constantly improved the prevention and control measures, and made a historic breakthrough in all work. Xiong Huang, the first level inspector of the Comprehensive Department of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, said that China was once a country seriously affected by endemic diseases. Kashin Beck disease, Keshan disease, iodine deficiency disease and other endemic diseases had seriously troubled and threatened the health of Chinese residents, especially rural residents. In 2018, 10 departments, including the National Health Commission, jointly formulated the Three Year Action Plan for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control (2018-2020), which included the prevention and control of endemic diseases into the government's target management, multi sectoral joint prevention and control, and comprehensive implementation of policies. They worked together to promote the prevention and control interventions, such as salt iodization, disease prevention and water improvement, low fluoride brick tea, and stove improvement, improve the living environment in the disease areas, and control and eliminate the risk of endemic diseases. China has achieved the phased goal of controlling and eliminating key endemic diseases. By the end of 2021, 2799 iodine deficiency disease counties, 379 Kashin Beck disease counties, 330 Keshan disease counties, 171 coal-burning fluorosis counties, 12 coal-burning arsenic poisoning counties, 122 drinking water arsenic poisoning counties or high arsenic areas and counties in China have all met the control or elimination standards, and the rate of reaching the standard is 100%. China has closely integrated the prevention and control of endemic diseases with the rural revitalization strategy and poverty alleviation, and adhered to the strategy of prevention first, combination of prevention and control, classified guidance, promotion by province, comprehensive implementation of policies, and management by objectives for the prevention and control of endemic diseases. It has formed an effective prevention and control mechanism and a perfect standard system, and created a miracle for developing countries to effectively control and eliminate the hazards of key endemic diseases, It provides Chinese wisdom and solutions for global governance of public health problems caused by endemic diseases, and forms the "Chinese experience" of endemic disease prevention and control. In China, the poor and endemic patients have been included in the social security system such as the minimum living allowance and disability assessment, and the free policy of surgical treatment subsidies and drug treatment has been implemented. All the patients with endemic diseases have been registered and should be treated as soon as possible. The families in the disease area have got rid of the state of poverty caused by illness and returning to poverty due to illness. Among the poverty-stricken counties at the national level, all the endemic areas and counties have reached the control and elimination standards, with the rate of reaching 100%. The surveillance system for endemic diseases has been continuously improved. Every year, villages are taken as the units to monitor Kaschin Beck disease, drinking water type fluorosis and arsenic poisoning, coal burning pollution type fluorosis and arsenic poisoning, and water source high iodine. Township is taken as the unit to monitor Keshan disease. County is taken as the unit to monitor iodine deficiency disease and tea drinking type fluorosis. The national key endemic disease monitoring has been fully covered. The ability to prevent and control diseases and the level of scientific and technological disease prevention have been constantly improved. Finance at all levels has increased funding and policy preference for national professional institutions, key regions and grass-roots prevention and control institutions, strengthened scientific research to tackle key problems, made breakthroughs in the screening of drugs for the treatment of Kashin Beck disease, water fluoride, water iodine and other advanced detection technologies, and improved the detection and medical examination capabilities of laboratories for various endemic diseases. At present, a monitoring network covering all disease areas and counties in the country has been established. 2562 county-level laboratories across the country can carry out urine iodine detection, 1523 counties have thyroid B-ultrasound detection capabilities, 694 counties have skeletal fluorosis detection capabilities, 130 counties have arsenic poisoning detection capabilities
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Source:People.cn
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