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□Dai Xianren

Recently, an insider reported to China National Radio that the Beijing Chemical Industry Occupational Disease Prevention and Treatment Institute regarded the reimbursement amount of work-related injury insurance as "Tang Monk's meat". Every day, the computer information showed that dozens of people were hospitalized for occupational diseases, but in fact only a few people were staying in the ward. During the so-called "hospitalization", these patients inhaled oxygen, received infusions, and took medicines. The oxygen was released, and the infusions and nebulized medicines were directly thrown into the trash. Some patients who were identified as work-related injuries were in relatively stable physical conditions, but they treated the work-related injury insurance fund as a "cash machine". Some patients went to hundreds of hospitals for outpatient prescriptions in more than 90 days. (August 20, China National Radio)

Work-related injury insurance is a safety umbrella for workers to prevent their families from falling into poverty or returning to poverty due to work-related injuries. However, in some hospitals, work-related injury insurance has become a "Tang Monk's meat" that can be squandered at will, and a "cash machine", which completely deviates from the original intention of setting up work-related injury insurance.

In the vast majority of cases, patients who are identified as having suffered work-related injuries do need treatment, and they do not rely on "faking illness" to obtain work-related injury insurance benefits. However, after appropriate treatment and a relatively stable physical condition, they generally do not need to be hospitalized or see a doctor frequently, but some patients still "fake hospitalization" in the hospital. For example, Dr. Li from the Beijing Chemical Occupational Disease Prevention and Treatment Institute told reporters that the hospital has two campuses. In the inpatient department of the Xiangshan campus, although the more than 60 beds are often "full", few are actually hospitalized. Some patients are prescribed medicines, but they do not show up, becoming "fake patients", not only defrauding insurance premiums, but also causing a large amount of drug waste.