Lee Cheng-hua, acting general manager of the Bureau of National Health Insurance under the DOH, said his bureau is scheduled to take a new step on Friday to cover the costs for all pharmaceuticals used to fight flu virus in the NHI program so as to reduce the financial burden of infected people. Meanwhile, researchers at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER) said the anticipated worsening in the global flu outbreak in the autumn and winter seasons will cast a shadow on the economic development.<…more>
Publication Date：07/19/2009
Source： The China Post
