What are healthcare services like in China?

"Healthcare services in China vary depending on location, but generally the country serves its citizens with a range of services, including preventive health and hygiene, primary healthcare, emergency care, chronic disease management, and in-hospital care. Although public healthcare services are generally provided at a low cost or free of charge, private care is becoming increasingly available. In China, there is a focus on education and awareness about good health and hygiene, and health promotion activities are popular. The government has also implemented initiatives to reduce medical expenditure for the poor and to strengthen primary healthcare," mentioned another expat when asked about moving to China.

"It is difficult unless you have someone who speaks English go with you to explain the problem. After that it is easy. I have been three time to the hospital. Once to have a mole removed from my face directly in front of my ear under my side burns (so to speak) and have it biopsied. about 1,200 yuan including anti-biotics. or about $200. Another time was for an eye infection about 200-300 yuan for medicine (office visits are almost free) and to have a new prescription for my eyeglasses which had to be done at the hospital. I paid $0.50 for the exam (not to sure if they meant to charge more, they wanted me to buy the glasses there but they wanted 3,500 yuan about $581 USD (I do need progressive lenses and am very far sighted (+7 to +9 diopter correction I can barely make out the letters at the top of the eyechart!) I said "No way" and left. I later bought them for 1,028 yuan ($170USD). The hospital go out of there way to set me up with doctors that have some English ability and in one case they called in someone like an orderly who had been to America for college and was very good at English and he was i big help. Prescription medication is very expensive. I have diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol for $30USD I got my medicine in the USA for 90 days here it runs about 400 yuan for 30 days or about $66USD," commented one expat who made the move to Nanning, Guangxi Provence, China.

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