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“In clinical practice, we found that people are more afraid of hepatitis than they know about hepatitis to a certain extent.” Deputy Director of the Second Department of Hepatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Naval Medical University (Shanghai Oriental Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital) Yang Tian was a little helpless. He found that some patients had two extreme wrong thoughts: “There is no way to cure viral hepatitis, it is better not to cure it” “If you have hepatitis, you are not far from liver cancer, you can only wait for death.” On the occasion of World Hepatitis Day, Yang Tian called for a correct understanding of hepatitis common sense and elimination of hepatitis discrimination.
Yang Tian told reporters that in outpatient clinics, he often heard that hepatitis B virus carriers or patients with chronic hepatitis were suffering greatly. There is widespread discrimination in social life. “Due to the weak popularization of hepatitis knowledge in the past, many people lack sufficient understanding of the transmission of hepatitis virus. People mistakenly believe that hepatitis can be transmitted through daily contact or shared meals with hepatitis B virus carriers or patients with chronic hepatitis.” Yang Tian express.
According to reports, although my country has successively promulgated a series of laws and policies that prohibit mandatory testing of hepatitis B and C, and protect chronic hepatitis patients and hepatitis B virus carriers, there are sometimes lack of equal rights laws and policies. Enforcement strength and punishment for violators.
The late “Father of Chinese Hepatobiliary Surgery” Academician Wu Mengchao once published an article in the internationally renowned medical journal “The Lancet”, pointing out that eliminating discrimination against hepatitis and popularizing medical knowledge is the foundation . Yang Tian suggested that to correct hepatitis discrimination, it is urgent to carry out large-scale popularization education on hepatitis knowledge, so that more people can understand the correct knowledge of hepatitis prevention and treatment.
“I believe that the disappearance of ‘hepatitis discrimination’ will come one day, but for the majority of chronic hepatitis patients and a larger number of hepatitis B virus carriers, the demands are again It’s so urgent.” Yang Tian felt the same way. He also pointed out that at present, hepatitis C can be completely cured by anti-hepatitis C virus drugs, and the cure rate is over 95%; and hepatitis B can also be controlled by anti-hepatitis B virus drugs. Outcome of cirrhosis and liver cancer. “Most of the anti-hepatitis virus drugs are currently covered by the national medical insurance in China.” Therefore, the purpose of hepatitis health science popularization is to mobilize these chronic hepatitis patients to eliminate the mentality of tabooing diseases and actively seek medical treatment and receive treatment.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Gao Yang