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In rural China, where blood pressure control rates are poor, especially in rural areas, an intervention led by village doctors is proving successful in addressing the issue. In China, hypertension is a serious public health problem as it has increased almost 400 percent from 1980 to 2015 – from an estimated 59 million to 244.5 million – and has accounted for over 2 million deaths or 24.6 percent of all-cause mortality. A latest study published by the Lancet, the community health workers, or “village doctors,” successfully treated people with uncontrolled high blood pressure in 326 villages in ...
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The overall vaccination rate in China stands at nearly 88 percent. But only about half of those over 80 and 48% of those over 60 have received two vaccinations N Ahmad As Chinese authorities are determined to adhere to the zero Covid policy in Shanghai, the elderly unvaccinated people are becoming a towering obstacle to easing Covid-19 restriction imposed on March 28. Ten deaths of Covid -19 patients in Shanghai were reported on April 18 and April 19 causing panic in the city which has a low vaccination rate among provincial regions. On April 19, Shanghai reported seven deaths among the elderl...
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The recent surge in Coronavirus cases in China, although small compared to some other countries, is a significant challenge to China’s zero-Covid strategy. N Ahmad China’s commercial capital, Shanghai, is now a ghost town. The city is one of the worst-hit regions in the country facing a resurgence of the Covid-19 virus. Robot dogs and drones patrol Shanghai’s streets and the skies, respectively, enforcing a strict lockdown on the city’s 26 million residents. Robot dogs ask residents to stay indoors. Drones fly around. They come close to those they spot outside asking them to return to their ho...
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China created a telemedicine ecosystem to fight the pandemic while still retaining access to essential healthcare services By Naseer A Ganai China’s leveraging of telemedicine to combat COVID-19 is a lesson for governments across the world. In the early stages of the pandemic, community hospitals in Wuhan buckled under pressure owing to outdated equipment shortage of doctors and frontline workers, and limited facilities for testing and monitoring. As a result, patients began veering towards larger hospitals for diagnosis and treatment, increasing social movement and potentially expanding the s...
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How does one report a pandemic from ground zero, especially when its a tough place like China? Tariq Hashmat of Health Analytics Asia spoke with Beijing-based media professional Suvam Pal. Amidst the multiple tectonic shifts during this pandemic, the country where SARS-CoV-2 was first reported, seems to have emerged from the ruins relatively unscathed. As a point of comparison, China’s case count (89,943 as on March 4, 2021) is less than a tenth of Netherlands’, a country with nearly a tenth of China’s population. Reporting a pandemic is challenging, even more so when ground zero is China. Ove...
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Having weathered the surge of SARS-CoV-2, China has not seen a second wave of the pandemic yet. However, questions surrounding the country’s struggles with data as well as its initial assessment of the infection remain. By Tariq HashmatThe COVID-19 pandemic is nearing a tally of 50 million cases globally. Over 1.2 million of them have succumbed to the mysterious virus. The country where the virus, SARS-CoV-2, was first reported, has seemingly emerged from the ruins, relatively unscathed.In the first four months of this year, more than 84,000 cases were reported across China. The following six ...
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The number of Indian students pursuing MBBS in China has grown immensely in the past few years. Today there are an estimated 21,000 Indian students studying MBBS in China. Now due to India-China border tension, the future of these students looks bleak, reports Nikunj Sharma. By Nikunj SharmaThousands of Indian doctors who graduated from Chinese universities, foreign education consultants in India, and medicine aspirants for Chinese universities are all skeptical about their future prospects in their own country. Reason? The continuously growing anti-China sentiments since the COVID-19 outbreak...
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