Nowadays, although the level of medicine has improved, for ordinary families, a serious illness is enough to destroy a family. According to the definition of the World Health Organization, a family’s medical expenditure exceeds 40% of the remaining income after deducting the basic living expenses, which is “family catastrophic medical expenditure”. Seriously ill patients who exceed this level of expenditure will consume all the savings of a family due to the need for long-term treatment, and there are also many people who cannot carry out treatment.
Leukemia is a disease that people talk about, and the number of people suffering from leukemia in our country is also increasing year by year. According to the “National Children’s Cancer Surveillance Annual Report 2020” released by the National Children’s Cancer Surveillance Center, leukemia is the disease with the largest proportion of the patients with cancer discharged from the hospital, accounting for 57.21%, and the annual incidence of new children Leukemia is around 20,000. Such data is terrible, and it is also a “disaster” for ordinary families.
Waterdrop, a subsidiary of Waterdrop Corporation (NYSE:WDH), as the leading Internet service platform for personal critical illness help in China, is also Actively explore the establishment and improvement of the mechanism to effectively prevent poverty due to illness and return to poverty due to illness, and give full play to the advantages of the platform to help more families in need.
In 2020, Waterdrop, a subsidiary of Waterdrop Company, officially announced that it will help millions of families with serious illnesses to raise 40 billion yuan in medical funds within 3 years, and at the same time invest 200 million yuan to distribute “love subsidies” to more than 150,000 families with serious illnesses. gold”. And in that year, it invested more than 20 million yuan in “love subsidies” in Sichuan Province, China, to help 10,000 families with serious illnesses in difficulty to seek medical treatment. At the same time, for the group of patients with special needs and serious illnesses, Waterdrop will help patients with serious illnesses to carry out online fundraising.
Shidichou fully utilizes its own platform to solve the burden of medical expenses of some rural township residents who are in deep distress due to serious illness and serious illness, and fully responds to the major measures of rural revitalization. With its outstanding contributions in the field of critical illness assistance, Shuidichou has become a trusted choice for critically ill patients and caring people.
By the end of September 2021, about 383 million caring people had supported critical illness relief projects on the platform, and they had helped 2.2 million critically ill patients with financial difficulties to raise more than 45.7 billion yuan in medical aid.