Insurance and Supervision System for Sportsmen Set up in ShanghaiShanghai has in recent years formed a comprehensive all-risk insurance and medical supervision system for sportsmen, said Guo Qinglong, director of Shanghai Sports Administration (SSA) and dean of Shanghai Sports Technique College.Two years ago, SSA signed an agreement with China Life Insurance Company Shanghai Branch on the all-risk insurance of contingency. The insurance service is designed mainly for some 900 active sportsmen in Shanghai with the highest compensation of 200 thousand yuan. Included in the new insurance service are such cases as injury during the exercises and matches, illness or any accidental cases that cause hospitalization and physical paralysis. The annual insurance premium for a team will exceed 300 thousand yuan. However, there hasn't seen any major compensation case over the past 20 months. Should any case similar to that of Zhu Gang to happen in the future, 200 thousand yuan would be immediately delivered to the person concerned. Meanwhile, the medical supervision has also been reinforced. Anyone who intends to enter Shanghai sports teams is required to receive strict and thorough physical checkup. Whoever is detected with congenital cardiovascular diseases will be barred out. The sports hospital is required to build an archive for each sportsman so as to trace his/her healthy conditions and offer suitable solution. In addition, each team in Shanghai has two professional doctors and 40 doctors in total are working in the first row of training and matches. According to the regulations, every player must go over a physical check-up annually. By PD Online staff member Yin Zhili |
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