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990,000 Low-Income Class to Receive Free Cancer Examination

990,000 Low-Income Class to Receive Free Cancer Examination

Posted December. 08, 2001 11:47,   

한국어

The low-income health insurance holders as well as the medical protection beneficiaries can receive the free examination for stomach cancer, uterine cancer, and breast cancer from next year.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare revealed yesterday that for the early examination on cancer from which the most peoples have died, it would execute the free medical examination on three kinds of cancers for 990,000 people on need basis, who belong to low 20 percent by income standard among the health insurance holders.

The ministry plans to raise the needed fund of 32 billion won from health insurance budget (16 billion won), national fund (8 billion won) and local-government fund (8 billion won). And it decided to continue the free cancer examination for 290,000 medical protection beneficiaries next year by raising 6 billion won from national health promotion fund (3 billion won) and local-government fund (3 billion won).



Moon Chul fullmoon@donga.com