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 "In order to satisfy everyone's diverse healthcare needs, we are
lowering the threshold for private healthcare providers," China's
State Council said on its website on Thursday night.
Other planned measures include offering preferential tax treatment
to private hospitals and streamlining the approval process to set up
a hospital or clinic, it said.
It will also aim to give equal treatment to medical staff regardless
of whether they work in the public or private system and eliminate
requirements on the number of beds per hospital.
China announced a five-year roadmap in March outlining a plan to
double the number of its general doctors by 2020, trim its public
sector and improve technology as it seeks to fix a healthcare system
plagued by snarling queues and poor rural services.
(Reporting by Sue-Lin Wong; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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