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Stimulus package boosts rural pregnancy scheme in 12 provinces (2) |
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14:52, December 03, 2008 |
PROGRAM FOR POVERTY-STRICKEN COUNTRYSIDE WOMEN PARTURITION
Tuo's family earn about 5,000 yuan every year. Though affordable, the costs of giving birth and of raising the newborn child were still worrying.
If financial demands forced her to stay away from hospitalization, the risk of giving birth in a poor quality rural home was huge.
The cost of giving birth in hospital, ranging from about 500 yuan to 2,500 yuan, is a burden to rural women in Shaanxi, where farmers' annual income averaged about 2,645 yuan per person in 2007.
"When my granddaughter-in-law gave birth it was free from cost," said Tuo's grandmother-in-law. "The money we saved will cover the expense of her and her son in the month after birth."
"The death rate of pregnant rural women is a great concern of ours," said Sun. "We are endeavoring to aid more expectant women."
In a drive to help expectant women and expand public healthcare, Shaanxi put into practice a new government aid program on giving birth in the countryside in May 2008. The provincial government chose 25 poverty-stricken counties to try out the program.
"The ordinary people are very happy about the program," Sun said.
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