Patients to pay new service fee
By Qiu Quanlin | China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-12 07:47
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Doctors prepare for a cornea transplant operation in a hospital in Shenzhen. Qi Jieshuang |
GUANGZHOU: Patients in public hospitals in Guangdong province will be charged a medical service fee beginning late this year, a move to reduce the hospitals' dependency on profits from pharmaceutical prescriptions.
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