More input real remedy for hospitals' ills

Vice-Minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission Sun Zhigang said recently that the fees for services involving medical staff would rise, as the commission seeks to end the decades-long practice of allowing hospitals to profit from buying and selling medicines. Comments:

While patients complain that their medicines are too expensive, doctors and nurses are also suffering, because their fees are rather low compared with the time and energy they invested in getting their degrees. As a result, patients face unbearable medical bills while doctors get a wage that's comparatively low. This move by the commission is in the right direction, and we hope the reform can be implemented properly.

eastday.com, May 23