China to improve healthcare under 2-child policy

 11-Jan-16, Business Standard

As it embarks on a two-child policy after restricting couples to just one offspring for over 30 years, China today said it aims to improve maternal and child healthcare expecting a new baby boom in the next few years amid slowing growth in the world's second largest economy.

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China is adopting measures to better allocate maternal and child health resources and train more doctors, Wang Peian, deputy head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) said here.

NHFPC says 90 million Chinese women are allowed to have a second child under the two-child policy that took effect on January 1.

The government is urging universities and medical schools to train more midwives and pediatricians, and calling for higher salaries to make these occupations more appealing, Yang Wenzhuang, head of the Department of Community Family Planning with the NHFPC said.

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