Wang Pei'an, vice-minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, carried out an inspection in Guizhou province from June 10 to 11, gaining insight into both the progress of health tourism and a project that provides better medical services for poor people.

Guizhou's provincial health and family planning department has been paying great attention to providing better healthcare for the poor. It has set up a medical assistance system, promoting provisions of medical aid for people of Jianhe county with chronic diseases. 

Wang urged that health departments at all levels should make more effort and develop policies to ensure accessible and affordable medical care for people in poverty. 

"We should set up cohesive mechanism for basic medical insurance, critical illness insurance and medical aid systems, trying to provide treatment to every poor patient." said Wang.

Wang noted that health departments can effectively reduce the burden of medical expenses for poor people by the measures of "pay after diagnosis" and a tiered system of medical care. Medical institutions in poverty-stricken areas should generally improve their service quality.

Wang also inspected Taohuajiang health tourism demonstration base, setting out requirements for the combination of medical treatment and nursing.

He Li, vice-governor of Guizhou province, and relevant officials from the NHFPC accompanied Wang on his inspection.