Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs: Psychiatric patients can apply for medical assistance

At yesterday's CPPCC welfare and security group discussion meeting, Wang Lin, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Hubei Huangshi Legal Aid Center, “took the words” to Luo Pingfei, deputy director of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. “It is very difficult for the mentally ill to help! Weapons."

Wang Lin said that according to the current policy, the minimum living standard is approved by the household. However, mental patients need to have guardians and cannot separate households. This leads to mental patients who do not have jobs, but the income level of the entire family is not enough for the subsistence allowance. This family burden is heavy.

Luo Pingfei, deputy director of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), responded at the scene and said that at present, the national policy is to determine the minimum living standard according to the household. It is suggested that such families can apply for medical assistance. "This is a medical aid issue, not a subsistence allowance. Because other patients with diseases such as dementia may also have existing diseases and they cannot share households."

In an interview with CCTV yesterday, Minister of Health Chen Hao said that more serious illnesses will be included in medical assistance this year and promoted throughout the country, including severe mental illness.