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China extends emergency heart-attack care to township clinics, Xinhua reports
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Xinhua reported on 4 September 2026 that a 72-year-old man with an acute myocardial infarction received intravenous thrombolysis at a township health centre in Hefeng County, Hubei, one of 1,404 chest pain treatment units the province has set up over five years. The report cites provincial figures of nearly 3,000 thrombolysis procedures at 320 grassroots health centres and a fall in the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease mortality rate from 240.4 per 100,000 people in 2020 to 190.7 in 2025, and says the National Health Commission has established 12 national pilot areas for grassroots medical services.
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