• Time of issue:2019-08-12 14:24

(Summary description) People's Daily Online, Chengdu, August 6. According to the China Chronic Disease Report, chronic disease has become the main cause of death for urban and rural residents in my country. In poor areas, the mortality rate of chronic disease has reached 60%. Middle-aged and elderly people suffering from hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia are the main group of chronic diseases. In rural areas, many patients suffer from various complications because they did not seek medical attention in time, and some families fell into poverty due to long-term medication and treatment. 2019 is a critical year for the nation’s poverty alleviation. How to take on more social responsibilities and combine our own advantages with targeted poverty alleviation? A team of pharmaceutical companies is active in Songpan County, Aba Prefecture. They focus on helping patients. Mainly the middle-aged and elderly people with chronic diseases, launched a unique chronic disease poverty alleviation. According to the relevant person in charge of the Songpan County Poverty Alleviation Office, starting from November 2018, Joincare, Livzon Pharmaceutical Group and Songpan County have reached a chronic disease poverty alleviation agreement. The first batch of medicines worth 1 million yuan have been distributed to Songpan County suffering from chronic disease. In the hands of poor middle-aged and elderly households. During the same period, the volunteers of Joincare, accompanied by the leaders of Songpan County Health Bureau, began to visit poor towns. Poverty alleviation volunteers visited an elderly grandmother suffering from high blood pressure and coronary heart disease in Tibetan areas. She lived alone in a house made of bricks on a mountain with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. She told the volunteers that long-term use of chronic disease drugs is really a lot of expense, so generally they rarely take drugs, and the money saved can be used for schooling. "We uphold the principle of openness and fairness, and strive to allow more chronic disease patients to receive free medicines in the poverty alleviation areas we cooperate with." The person in charge of the poverty alleviation project said that after the group and the government reached a poverty alleviation agreement, the local health bureau The list of patients with chronic diseases and poor households in the whole district or county is counted, and the local people’s hospital or health center will arrange for distribution after evaluating the patient’s condition. Up to now, it has donated 2 million worth of medicines to Chaotian District and Songpan County in Sichuan Province. (Red wave)