Chapter VI. Conclusions and suggestions
6.2 Suggestions for health care policy of Yucheng victims
According to the results of current studies, we suggest that the health care policy
for Yucheng victims should include, but not limited to, stomach, liver, lung, and
lymphatic and hematopoietic tissue cancer screening as part of the regular health
examination. Besides, current health care policy pay insufficient attention to Yucheng
children. We suggest that Yucheng children should receive as much health care as
first-generation Yucheng victims.
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