By the end of February 2013, 70 percent of medical fees for the treatment of 20 severe diseases will be reimbursed in rural areas.
The rural cooperative medical care system will enhance its coverage of a range of ailments, including children's leukemia, kidney disease in end phase and lung cancer.
About 70 percent of medical fees for those diseases will be covered by the medical care system, said Health Minister Chen Zhu at a meeting on improving the medical care system in rural areas in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province.
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