From June 1, 2020, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Basic Medical Health and Health Promotion" will be officially implemented. This is the first basic and comprehensive law in my country's health and wellness field, and the people's right to health has been guaranteed by legislation since then.

The "Basic Medical Hygiene and Health Promotion Law" is divided into ten chapters and 110 articles, covering basic medical and health services, medical and health institutions, medical personnel, drug supply security, health promotion, financial security and other aspects of health. The doctors, village doctors, doctor-patient disputes, pre-hospital first aid, key population health, mental health and other hot and difficult points are clearly defined.

The promulgation and implementation of the "Basic Medical Hygiene and Health Promotion Law" will have a major leading role in the establishment of order in my country's health field in the future!

Let's take a look at the key information-

1. Medical and health services should adhere to the people as the center and serve the people's health.

2. The state establishes a basic medical and health system. The basic medical and health system includes basic public health services and basic medical services, which are provided free of charge by the state.

3. Citizens receive medical and health services, and have the right to informed consent in accordance with law on medical conditions, diagnosis and treatment plans, medical risks, and medical expenses. The state protects citizens ’personal health information and ensures the safety of citizens’ personal health information.

4. The state establishes and improves an urban-rural full-coverage, complementary function and continuous coordination medical and health service system composed of grass-roots medical and health institutions, hospitals, and professional public health institutions.

5. Medical and health undertakings adhere to the principle of public welfare. The medical and health service system insists on taking non-profit medical and health institutions as the main body and supplementing for-profit medical and health institutions. The government organizes non-profit medical and health institutions to play a leading role in the basic medical and health undertakings to ensure that the basic medical and health services are fair and accessible.

6. The state adopts various measures to encourage and guide social forces to organize medical and health institutions according to law, and to support and regulate medical and health institutions organized by social forces and government-run medical and health institutions to carry out various types of medical business, discipline construction, and personnel training, etc. Cooperation.

7. The state implements the essential medicine system, selects an appropriate number of essential medicine varieties, and meets the basic medicine needs for disease prevention and treatment. The State publishes the Essential Medicines List, and dynamically adjusts the Essential Medicines List according to the clinical application of medicines, changes in medicine standards, and new listings of medicines.

8. The Promotion Law makes it clear that citizens are the first person responsible for their own health, establish and practice the concept of health management that is responsible for their own health, take the initiative to learn health knowledge, improve health literacy, and strengthen health management. Promote family members to care for each other and form a healthy lifestyle that matches their own and family characteristics.

9. The state raises basic medical insurance funds through multiple channels in accordance with the law, and gradually improves the basic medical insurance sustainable financing and guarantee level adjustment mechanism.

10. The state establishes and improves a comprehensive medical and health supervision and management system that combines institutional autonomy, industry self-discipline, government supervision, and social supervision. The health authorities of the people's governments at or above the county level shall implement localization and whole-industry supervision and management of the medical and health industries.