Medical personnel work on the medicines for patients at a traditional Chinese hospital in Beijing, China, Thursday. China’s US$124-billion overhaul of its ailing health-care system needs to address the prescription of unnecessary drugs and treatments — a widespread practice relied upon to finance the medical sector, the World Bank said Thursday.
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