The Jiangxi provincial health and family planning commission recently announced a plan to provide free treatments this year for 100,000 people suffering from critical illness, such as cataracts, uremia, severe mental illness, breast cancer, cervical carcinoma, and children with leukemia and congenital heart disease.

The doctor gives free treatment to the uremia patient (file photo by IC)

The plan calls for the province to provide 24,000 cataract patients with treatments, 2,000 for children congenital heart disease, 100 children with leukemia, 14,000 suffering from uremia, 65,000 with serious mental illnesses, 136 with breast cancer patients in rural areas, and 62 rural women suffering from cervical carcinoma.

The health and family planning commission is asking local departments to give details of their work to ensure that the plan can be carried out in time, and to simplify work processing to let people benefit from the plan, and departments to report on their results.