China’s government launches a campaign against medical corruption
But it may not tackle the roots of the problem
For almost two months the authorities have been cracking down on the blatant corruption that has long plagued China’s health-care system. The Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, its fearsome graft-busting arm, is among a swathe of agencies leading the charge. Heralding the campaign in late July, officials said it would last a full year. State media have called it “a storm” and an unprecedented exercise in “shock and awe”. The 21st Century Business Herald, a newspaper, said that graft-busters were “speeding into the deepwater zone”.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Shock and awe”
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