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DPP Taoyuan mayoral candidate Huang Shih-chieh outlines four-part healthcare plan

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

Translated from Chinese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Huang Shih-chieh criticized Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan’s administration, saying major hospital plans remain incomplete after three years.
  • If elected, Huang said he would pursue four priorities: specialty medical centers, incentives to retain healthcare workers, faster early intervention for children, and integrated medical and elder care.
  • His proposals include hospital upgrades, housing and transport support for medical staff, streamlined child-development services, and expanded dementia-care support.

Huang Shih-chieh, the Democratic Progressive Party’s candidate for mayor of Taoyuan, says the city needs a healthcare system that supports residents from birth through old age. He criticized the administration of Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan, saying it had produced a “blank scorecard” on healthcare after three years.

Huang said National Tsing Hua University Hospital had not come to Taoyuan, the municipal hospital remained in the planning stage, and even a Guanyin branch hospital would not be planned until a medical center was established. If elected, he said he would pursue a “specialty healthcare, healthy Taoyuan” policy through four areas.

The first would create a network of specialty medical centers. Existing hospitals would develop expertise in cancer, children’s care, geriatric medicine and precision medicine based on their strengths. City subsidies for equipment and personnel, cooperation among hospitals, and guidance from medical centers would help upgrade services and address gaps in emergency, maternal and child, and elderly care.

blank scorecard

· Huang Shih-chiehHe used the phrase to criticize the incumbent administration’s healthcare record.

The second proposal, a housing and settlement program for healthcare workers, would use housing, transport and childcare measures to retain nurses, specialist doctors and other medical staff. Huang cited social-housing allocations, rental subsidies, public-transport commuting assistance and priority kindergarten access for healthcare workers’ children.

For early childhood intervention, he proposed a fast-track system covering detection, assessment, treatment and follow-up. It would combine medical, health, education and social-welfare resources to shorten waiting times and link referrals, follow-up care and applications for subsidies. His final proposal, integrated medical and elder care, would combine healthcare, long-term care, social welfare and psychological support for older people with dementia, while expanding respite and mental-health services for caregivers.

specialty healthcare, healthy Taoyuan

· Huang Shih-chiehThis is the policy direction he proposed for Taoyuan’s healthcare system.
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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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