2010-12-30

Fosun Pharma Group donates “Shanghailander with New Heart” Fund for Cardiovascular Disease

On 28th Dec, an opening ceremony was held ceremoniously for initiating “Shanghailander with New Heart” Fund for Cardiovascular Disease in The Beloved Blue Sky in 2011, the ceremony was launched in the purpose of offering medical assistance for migrant workers who are suffering cardiovascular disease, and the action is co-sponsored by Pudong New District branch of Shanghai Charity Fund and Shanghai East Hospital which affiliated to Tongji University. Fosun Pharma Group has participated actively in charitable donations and charity auctions and also been loosen its purse strings generously and contributed RMB 100 thousand.

According to incomplete statistics, due to various constraints such as economic background and knowledge level as well as medical conditions, among nearly 7 million migrant workers and nearly 1 million families of Shanghai educated youth, the incidence rate on congenital heart disease for newborns at next generation is up to 10‰, which is much higher than the average of 7-8‰ in our country, yet incidence rate of adults themselves congenital heart disease is also reach to 7‰, which is higher than the average figure 5‰. With the restriction elements of hardscrabble family conditions and fall behind living circumstances, along with major medical expense, these families’ future are worrying.

Fosun Pharma Group has combined charity activity with healthcare undertaking to make social commonweal enterprises returns nurturing to parents the society. Meanwhile, Fosun Pharma is dedicated to give full power to medicine circulation enterprises to satisfy patients’ medical demands by assisting people in difficulties and poor. In addition, in the spirit of humanitarianism, Fosun Pharma Group has been concerned on vulnerable groups all the time, paying its close attention to people who is in situation of “illness caused by poor” or “becoming poor due to illness”. On the other hand, in the purpose of creating the much warmer harmony society and dedicating a much happier life, Fosun Pharma Group has been actively engaged in events such as disaster relief, helping the needy, assisting disabilities, financing students, donation for construction, and donation for founding school etc.

It is learned that, “Shanghailander with New Heart Fund” for cardiovascular disease is one of charity money-raising project of Beloved Blue Sky in 2011 for Pudong New District branch of Shanghai Charity Fund, undertaking this project is to focus on vulnerable groups who are in Shanghai and in the situation of “illness caused by poor” or “becoming poor due to illness”; in next three years, company schedules to provide medical assistance to proceed rescue and prevention for cardiovascular disease for 3,000 migrant workers and their relatives in Shanghai and for part of families with financial difficulties in Chongming county in Shanghai and same for Shanghai educated youth who returned to Shanghai.