The Suzhou government in Jiangsu province has been praised recently by many Chinese netizens for being the first city in the country to transform nucleic acid sampling stations into fever clinics, which can provide fever and pain medications to people in need.
Compared with those queuing for hours at hospitals, people visiting roadside fever clinics can finish the whole medical process in about 10 minutes. They can use their health insurance to get fever and pain medications, which are in short supply at the moment across the country.
As of Sunday, Suzhou had established 1,035 roadside fever clinics. Neighboring city Wuxi has also established 1,519 similar fever clinics. As of Saturday, more than 16,000 people have visited the fever clinics, and more such clinics are under renovation and will be put into use soon.
Nanjing's Jiangning district has sent 16 buses upgraded to treat fever to residential communities and local companies since Monday. All of its 154 residential community medical centers have opened fever clinics.
Since Monday, Nanjing has provided 2 million fever medicine pills to local residents. A customer may purchase six pills each time at one of the 153 pharmacies selling fever medicine across the city.
Similar measures have also been rolled out in cities of Shandong province. In Taierzhuang district of Zaozhuang, some testing sites have also been working as temporary fever clinics since Sunday.
Chengwu county of Heze has upgraded 56 testing stations into fever treatment service stations to provide diagnosis and medicine. Each station has one doctor and one nurse on duty, and keeps medicines in stock.
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