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Stimulus package boosts rural pregnancy scheme in 12 provinces |
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14:51, December 03, 2008 |
Seven hundred yuan (100 U.S. dollars)is the price tag for a fashionable dress or a pair of sport shoes. But to some pregnant women in poverty-stricken rural areas in Shaanxi Province, such as Tuo Yanfei, the money could mean the difference between life and death.
Tuo, a farmer in Liujianwan village in Suide County of Shaanxi, northwest China, who gave birth to a son in November, received money from the government which aids rural women giving birth in 25 poverty-stricken counties.
With the aid, averaging 689 yuan for each mother, Tuo was hospitalized, receiving free physical checks and delivery. Without it, she might have opted to give birth in her poor home, where her life might have been in danger.
"The program will be expanded to cover almost all rural, pregnant women in our province in a few years," said Sun Zhenlin, director of Division of Women, Children, and Community Healthcare, Department of Health, Shaanxi Province.
The central government's recent economic stimulus package (announced at the beginning of last month) is focused on people's livelihoods and will boost funds for the expansion of aid programs for rural, pregnant women in central and west China, local government officials in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces say.
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