Foreign students are urged by Shanghai education administrators to make confident that they are holding medical insurance. The admonition came after a Laotian student at Fudan University was identifying with leukemia. Learners at Fudan have raised virtually 50,000 Yuan (6,250 U.S. dollars) for Bouphalyvanh Bounmy, a postgraduate in Fudan's law school. Bounmy borrowed money from the university to pay all of his medical expenses.

In China the University students are allowed to government-support medical insurance. But it is not liable for them to bear the expenses of both inpatient and outpatient. The bureau of Education has teamed up with an insurance company to carry out a particular insurance system for foreign students. Domestic universities compel the foreign students to buy an insurance policy. The city is free from regulations and the students are free to select any insurance policy.