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Tibet to fully implement medical assistances for severe diseases
By:chinatibetnews.com
update:July 04,2016
July 4,2016 -- According to the Department of Civil Affairs of Tibet Autonomous Region, more than 20 kinds of severe diseases are included in the security projects. Each aid-recipient can only apply for the medical assistances for severe diseases for only one time every year. The highest amount of the assistance standard is no more than 150 thousand yuan, apart from individual cases that must be solved immediately.
 
More than 20 kinds of diseases are included in the security projects
 
The medical assistance objects for severe diseases are mainly divided into two types, while there are 5 kinds of priority assistance objects, namely extremely poor people, orphans, the lowest life-guarantee objects, key entitled groups and severely disabled children. Tibet's medical assistances for severe diseases mainly includes urban basic health insurance, medical care system for agricultural and pastoral areas, replenishment insurance for big medical treatment, urban and rural medical assistance and medical assistances for severe diseases. According to the categories of assistance objects as well as medical costs, family difficulty level and other factors, medical assistances are carried out to make sure that the mass in difficulty can get timely and effective help.
 
If the aid-recipients still have to pay for a large amount of legal medical costs on their own after aided by all kinds of insurance systems, they also can apply for medical assistances for severe diseases.
Severe diseases include more than 20 kinds of diseases such as childhood leukemia, children congenital heart diseases, end-stage renal disease (uremia), severe mental illness, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, lung cancer, hemophilia, chronic myelocytic leukemia, cleft lip and palate, acute myocardial infarction, children benzene acetone urine disease and other related diseases.
 
Fill in related application forms
 
For people who want to apply for medical assistances, they can provide relevant materials to township workers. The materials include individual written application, copies of registered permanent residence and identity card, medical relief form for review, hospitalization and discharge certificate, statements of urban medical treatment insurance, required reimbursement claim documents and so on.
 
In addition, the drug range, diagnosis and treatment projects are in accordance with related provisions of catastrophic supplementary medical insurance. The highest assistance standard must be no more than 150 thousand yuan and the rescue proportion and capital spending way are the same as the common medical treatment, while it is not applicable for individual cases that must be solved immediately.
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