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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
JIZHUANGCUN, China (AP) — Unable to rely on China's broken health care system, the Ji family was desperate.
Doctors had taken 15-year-old Ji Xiaoyan off a ventilator and discharged her because her family could no longer pay her hospital bills. So an uncle cobbled together a makeshift ventilator from bicycle and washing machine parts, driven by a noisy electric motor. The contraption pumped...
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