Car crashes

    A SECURITY guard who helped a motorist move a van in a parking lot near Bao’an Boulevard in Bao’an District on Sunday accidentally rammed the vehicle into a restaurant and seriously crushed the legs of a woman inside.

    The van shattered the restaurant’s glass door before it crashed into the female diner. The woman suffered multiple bone fractures in her two legs and is receiving treatment at Hengsheng Hospital.

    Car plate auction

    THE city’s car plate administration center will offer 6,688 car plates in the year’s last round of lottery and auction, which will be held Dec. 26. There will be 3,333 plates for lottery and 3,355 for auction.

    Fish lantern museum

    A MUSEUM featuring the fish lantern dance, a State-level intangible culture heritage since 2008, was opened to the public on Zhongying Street in Shatoujiao, Yantian District, on Sunday.

    The 250-square-meter museum displayed 250 items relating to fish lantern culture and Hakka customs.

    Insurance beneficiaries

    THE city’s social insurance fund management bureau has given out 180 million yuan (US$26 million) in two years to 16,700 insured patients covered by the city’s auxiliary insurance for critical and serious diseases.

    Under the program, the insurance covers at least 70 percent of medicines and medical costs in the directory of insured drugs for patients with serious and terminal diseases after they have paid 10,000 yuan in costs at their own expense. It also applies to patients with 11 types of terminal diseases such as lung cancer by reimbursing up to 150,000 yuan a year and covering 70 percent of the medicines, which are not included in the directory of insured drugs.