Word: taiyuan
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...FLUNG SHANXI PROVINCE, WHICH has reported more SARS cases than anywhere in mainland China except for Guangdong, Beijing's latest directives, including one stipulating that all needy SARS victims receive subsidized medical care, have yet to make a difference. In the sooty provincial capital of Taiyuan, where the average monthly income is just $60, the family of an infected student surnamed Han has had to fork over $240 in medical fees for four days' care. "The government has underinvested in health in the last 20 years, leaving it to individuals to pay the bills," says Bekedam...
...Like their big-city counterparts, provincial doctors have also succumbed to political pressure to conceal information about the dangers of the virus. At a secret meeting last Wednesday overheard by a TIME reporter, Dr. Zhang Hanwei, the director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital in Taiyuan, began his speech by berating the 40 or so embattled doctors gathered before him. Other regions afflicted by SARS were reporting only a 4% mortality rate. But Shanxi, then with an official tally of 82 cases and 7 deaths, was reporting an 8.5% death rate. "The government is very unsatisfied with these numbers...