These Measures are enacted to lighten the medical burden of the rural poverty-stricken people, safeguard the basic rights and interests of the poverty-stricken peasants, and further promote the construction of the rural social assistance system and maintain social stability. The Measures consist of 35 Articles divided into 10 Chapters: General provisions; Principles; Objects of rural medical assistance; Content of rural medical assistance; Rural medical assistance standards; Rural medical assistance procedures; Relief fund Medical assistance services; Organization and implementation; and Supplementary provisions. The objects of rural medical assistance are: 1. rural five-guarantee households; 2. the poverty-stricken people who enjoy basic livelihood assistance in rural areas; 3. the poverty-stricken people in the rural areas such as orphans, old people, revolutionary disabled soldiers.
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