Wang Hesheng, vice-minister of the National Health Commission (NHC) leads an inspection group to Southwest China's Guizhou province from Mar 26 to 28. [Photo/en.nhc.gov.cn]

Wang Hesheng, vice-minister of the National Health Commission (NHC) led an inspection group to Southwest China's Guizhou province from Mar 26 to 28.

The group inspected the Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital and health centers in Guiding and Sandu counties of the province's Qiannan prefecture.

They also visited the local households in poverty and talked face to face with the local residents, grass-root medical workers and cadres of poverty alleviation to seek their advice.

Wang affirmed the progress the province has made in health poverty alleviation and deepening medical reform.

He urged Guizhou to improve county-level hospitals' capacities, establish integrated health mechanisms in counties and villages, form standards for village-level hospitals and tackle prominent problems of basic medical guarantees so as to support Guizhou in its fight against poverty.

Medical service is hard to access in Guizhou which should be a focus of attention, medical reform's procedures should be innovated, the field's distribution of resources needs further improvement and the health industry needs stricter comprehensive inspection and management, according to Wang.

Wang added that Guizhou province should be determined to take responsibility for the health sector and invest more resources in it to ensure implementation and performance of major tasks.