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The Big Story: What are the current problems of China’s healthcare system? And how is this Singaporean doctor-scientist addressing them?
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China’s healthcare policies have not kept up with its rapidly ageing population, since its hospital-centric approach to care makes it difficult to manage an increasingly large number of patients.
Moreover, a shortage of doctors – exacerbated by low pay making the profession unattractive – has led to endemic corruption.
Singaporean Professor Wong Tien Yin is looking to transform China's healthcare problems.
So how exactly is he doing it?
On The Big Story, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Professor Wong Tien Yin, Chair Professor & Senior Vice-Chancellor, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University; Vice Provost, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; and Senior Advisor at SingHealth & Singapore National Eye Centre, to find out more.
To read more, do also check out The Straits Times article:
How a Singaporean doctor-scientist is transforming China’s healthcare system
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-a-singaporean-doctor-scientist-is-transforming-china-s-healthcare-system
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Manage episode 448912917 series 2467889
China’s healthcare policies have not kept up with its rapidly ageing population, since its hospital-centric approach to care makes it difficult to manage an increasingly large number of patients.
Moreover, a shortage of doctors – exacerbated by low pay making the profession unattractive – has led to endemic corruption.
Singaporean Professor Wong Tien Yin is looking to transform China's healthcare problems.
So how exactly is he doing it?
On The Big Story, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Professor Wong Tien Yin, Chair Professor & Senior Vice-Chancellor, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University; Vice Provost, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; and Senior Advisor at SingHealth & Singapore National Eye Centre, to find out more.
To read more, do also check out The Straits Times article:
How a Singaporean doctor-scientist is transforming China’s healthcare system
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-a-singaporean-doctor-scientist-is-transforming-china-s-healthcare-system
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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