Reform key to improved healthcare

ALL TOP-LEVEL HOSPITALS in China are required by the country's National Health and Family Planning Commission to improve their nursing services by the end of this year. In particular, nurses should accordingly call a halt to their bad attitude and be more affable and enthusiastic while serving patients. Comments:

Better nursing services lie very much in effective regulations, which are supposed to instill in nurses professional ethics on a regular basis, and manage those improper nursing behaviors in a strict manner. Moreover, an accountability mechanism that decides nurses' salary and promotion by their service, may also reduce the complaints about nursing misconducts in the country.

Zhong Liming, a guest commentator of newssc.org, March 18