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Article: NW province offers free midwifery service provided for peasant,herder women
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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NW province offers free midwifery service provided for peasant,
herder women
GUINAN, Qinghai Province, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's
Qinghai Province has offered peasant and herder women a medicare
scheme to exempt their medical expenses at childbirth.
As one of the first beneficiaries, Zhoema, a herder's wife in
Guinan county, paid 50 yuan (six US dollars) last year to be
registered to the medicare program. The family paid virtually nothing
for the midwifery, medicine and basic vaccination when Zhoema's baby
was born last week at a local hospital in Senduo village.
"We couldn't have afforded childbirth at a hospital, if not for
the medicare program," said Zhoema. "Even a normal ...