In 2018, the health department of Luntse County, Shannan City fulfilled its social responsibility and achieved fruitful results with focusing on the improvement of the medical and health service capability as well as earnestly implementing the working arrangement from the Health and Family Planning Commission of TAR and Shannan City.

The year 2018 witnessed the implementation of a series of health policies that benefited the people in Luntse, such as the incentive and subsidy systems for women and children. It timely compensated for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) funds which reached 16.7741 million yuan RMB. Meanwhile, the county distributed the assistant funds for special families (children disabled or died) in agricultural and pastoral areas.

In addition, Luntse County made great efforts to promote the screening work on physical examination for urban and rural residents as well as congenital heart disease among children, and established health records for them. It conscientiously carried out the health poverty alleviation and the "one-to-one" pairing assistance work in which family doctors provided contract service for poor households establishing card for archives.

Besides, Luntse County also paid close attention to public health services such as disease prevention and control, made solid progress in the comprehensive prevention and control of echinococcosis, strengthened health publicity among the masses, held training courses for medical personnels, so as to gradually upgrade the county's medical and health facilities to a new level. [Jia Dan, Zhu Nan]