China Net Finance, February 3rd News The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for Responding to the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic held a press conference this morning, inviting Lian Weiliang, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Tian Yulong, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Liu Xiaoming, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport, Wang Bingnan, Deputy Director of the National Health Commission, Li Bin, Deputy Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation, and Gan Lin, Deputy Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation, and answered questions from reporters.
Li Bin, Deputy Director of the National Health Commission (photo by Dong Ning, China.com)
The following is the transcript:
Reporter: In order to do a good job in the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, what funding and policy support have the relevant departments provided? Thanks.
Li Bin: In terms of policy support, in order to ensure the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the National Health Insurance Administration, the National Health Commission and other departments have issued relevant policies around patient treatment, medical staff subsidies and epidemic prevention materials. First, patient treatment. Clarify the subsidy policy for patient treatment costs. For the medical expenses incurred by confirmed patients, after basic medical insurance, serious illness insurance, medical assistance, etc. are paid in accordance with regulations, the personal burden will be subsidized by the central and local governments. The second is personnel subsidies. Temporary work subsidies will be issued to medical personnel and epidemic prevention workers participating in prevention and control work. The central and local governments shall arrange funds in accordance with the prescribed standards; it is clear that in the prevention and treatment of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, medical staff and related staff who are infected with the new coronavirus pneumonia due to performing their work duties should be deemed to be an industrial injury and enjoy the work-related injury insurance benefits in accordance with the law. The third is the protection of epidemic prevention materials. The funds required for the procurement of special equipment for protection, diagnosis and treatment and rapid diagnostic reagents required for medical and health institutions to carry out epidemic prevention and control work shall be arranged by local finance and the central finance shall be guaranteed according to the situation.
in terms of funding support. On January 23, the Ministry of Finance urgently allocated 1 billion yuan of subsidies for the prevention and control of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus infection in Hubei Province to support Hubei Province in carrying out epidemic prevention and control related work. Immediately afterwards, the Ministry of Finance urgently allocated 4.4 billion yuan of subsidies for the prevention and control of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus infection in 2020 to support the implementation of epidemic prevention and control related work across the country. Among them, 500 million yuan was added to Hubei Province. In addition, the National Development and Reform Commission has also issued an investment of 300 million yuan within the central budget to support the construction of a new hospital project in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, focusing on the purchase of necessary medical equipment. In addition, the Ministry of Finance and the National Health Commission issued 60.33 billion yuan in advance to support local governments in carrying out basic public health services and grassroots epidemic prevention and control work. Among them, all the new subsidy funds are implemented in rural and urban communities, mainly used to prevent and control the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic. Thanks.
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