SHENZHEN will begin providing free medical treatment this year to disadvantaged hukou-holders suffering from psychosis that could make them a danger to themselves and others, according to a plan released by the city’s health bureau Monday.

The plan will be carried out on a trial basis in five districts, Luohu, Futian, Yantian, Longgang and Bao’an, and will be expanded to cover the whole city next year.

The free treatment mainly covers medication. Community health centers will prescribe free drugs to them each month.

Meanwhile, doctors are expected to give free medical exams and electrocardiographic tests to the patients to ensure medical safety, the plan said.

The community health centers and related departments in subdistricts have been ordered to create a file about people with psychosis and register them in a national information management system.

The registered patients should be taken to the districts’ chronic disease hospitals for examinations and evaluations by specialists. Seriously ill patients will be monitored by doctors for changes to their conditions.

A doctor in charge of mental disease prevention from the community health centers should make monthly visits to those suffering from major mental diseases who are potentially dangerous to the public.

There are currently more than 200 registered cases of mental patients with serious psychosis. Registration and evaluation in the five districts are expected to be finished by September.

(Wang Yuanyuan)