Reform to end reliance on drug sales

Reforms aimed at ending county-level public hospitals relying on drug sales to supplement their incomes will be adopted at all such hospitals nationwide by the end of October.

The move was announced by China's top health authority on Thursday.

By early this month, 3,297 of these hospitals had made the reforms, accounting for 78.3 percent of such hospitals in China, said Fu Wei, deputy chief for administrative reform at the National Health and Family Planning Commission.