A nurse changes a patient's dressing at her home in Henan province, on May 24, 2013. [Photo/IC] The Internet + Nursing Services' Pilot Plan will run in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong province from February to December 2019, the National Health Commission announced on Tuesday. According to the plan, the pilot areas' healthcare administrative departments will be able to determine which medical institutions have obtained Licenses for Medical Practice and have launched services such as home care and itinerant diagnosis. Relying on the information, institutions can then send registered nurses to provide offline nursing services. Qualified pilot medical institutions will be encouraged to strengthen the management of nurses through face recognition and other human feature recognition technologies. Meanwhile a withdrawal mechanism will be established for nurses who violate relevant laws and regulations and have a bad practice record. The plan also stipulates that registered nurses should have at least five years' clinical experience and the technical title of senior nurse registered in the national electronic nurse registration system. According to the plan, the services will focus on the elderly or incapacitated elderly, convalescent patients, end-stage patients and other patients with mobility problems. These patients will be provided with chronic disease management, rehabilitation care, special care, health education, and hospice care. Before providing offline services, the pilot medical institutions should conduct an initial diagnosis for the applicants to evaluate their diseases, health needs and other conditions. China's disabled, elderly and empty-nesters are on the rise, leading to a surge in demand for home care services, an official with the National Health Commission said. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China had 240 million people aged 60 or above, accounting for 17.3 percent of the total population, by the end of 2017. Approximately 150 million elderly people suffer from chronic disease, accounting for 65 percent of the total number of elderly. About 40 million elderly people have a disability or semi-disability. wristbands canadacustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelets canadasilicone bracelets canadasilicone wristbands canadacustom wristbands canadacanadian wristbandswristbands canada
Rescue workers tend to the injured at the site of a train derailment in Lian county in northern Taiwan on Sunday, Oct 21, 2018. Passengers were killed and injured on Sunday when one of Taiwan's newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route, officials said. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING - Mainland authorities on Monday mourned victims who died in a passenger train derailment in Taiwan Sunday afternoon and sent condolences to their families and the injured. The mainland has paid close attention to the accident, said officials from the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits. At least 18 people died and 187 were injured, and two female passengers from the mainland were among the injured, according to the island's railway authority. The Puyuma Express No. 6432 bound for Taitung from Shulin Station with 366 passengers on board derailed at 4:50 p.m. at Xinma Station, Yilan County. All eight cars of the express train derailed, with three of them overturned. The cause of the derailment is still under investigation. The accident, the worst of Taiwan railways in more than three decades, happened on a popular line along the island's east coast. Train services were partially resumed Monday morning.
