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A new model of "one-on-one" medical aid targeted to Tibet's prefecture-level hospitals from top hospitals of the provinces and cities concerned was introduced on July 3 this year, Xinhua reported.

According to the Medical Personnel’s Research Assessment Work Forum, the new model refers to the practice in which China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission and hospitals of the relevant provinces and cities, organized teams of medical experts to help improve management and train medical personnels in the targeted Tibetan hospitals.

This type of aid will be provided for three years, with each batch’s rotation lasting generally not less than a year, according to an official.

Medical assistance required will come from the earmarked funding which takes up one per thousandth of the total GDP of each province and city.

In August of this year, the first batch of medical team from each province and city will be dispatched to Tibet as a pilot.

By August 2016, the medical personnel will be sent together with the eighth batch of aid-Tibet cadres.

Since 1994, after the establishment of a targeted aid policy in Tibet, the Central Government along with various provinces and cities have selected and sent seven batches of medical personnel to seven cities in Tibet, constituting 414 cadres.

At present, the seventh batch consists of 165 people distributed throughout Tibet –68 of whom are placed in medical and health institutions at county level.

In addition, more than half of 212 short-term medical personnel, who has given strong support to the development of medical and health services in Tibet.

Zeng Wanming, minister of the Organisation Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee, said that the new model of medical aid is expected to improve the level of health care services of the recipient hospitals and benefits people of all ethnic groups, an innovative move to promote the development of medical and health services in Tibet.