The National Health and Wellness Committee has always adhered to the government-led and social participation in promoting health and poverty alleviation, and attached great importance to the participation of social forces in health and poverty alleviation. As a pharmaceutical enterprise that has participated in public welfare activities for a long time, Health Yuan Group responded positively and acted quickly. Since 20 18, poverty alleviation activities for chronic diseases have been carried out to provide free medicines to sick families in some poverty-stricken areas to help them get rid of poverty.
Rural revitalization is inseparable from poverty alleviation through chronic diseases.
Chronic diseases have become the main cause of death for urban and rural residents in China. According to public information, the total population and incidence rate of diseases are beyond imagination, the prevalence rate of chronic diseases has reached 23%, and the number of deaths has accounted for 86% of the total number of deaths. In the past ten years, the average number of new cases of chronic diseases has nearly doubled every year.
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Especially in poor areas, the mortality rate of chronic diseases is as high as 60%. Middle-aged and elderly people with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia are the main groups of chronic diseases. In rural areas, many patients have various complications because they did not seek medical treatment and take medicine in time, and some families have fallen into poverty because of long-term medication and treatment.
The task of health poverty alleviation is arduous, complex and long-term. Disease is the most prominent poverty-causing factor for the rural poor, and the proportion of returning to poverty due to illness has been high, reaching more than 40%. Some diseases are unpredictable, and some diseases are difficult to cure at present and need long-term treatment. Therefore, returning to poverty due to illness and causing poverty due to illness are the main directions of poverty alleviation.