Chen Peili is a representative of the National People's Congress and director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the First People's Hospital of Shangqiu City, Henan Province. According to epidemiological surveys, the number of patients with psychological problems and mental illnesses in our country exceeds 100 million.
Only 8% of them have sought professional help, Chen Peili said. She found that many general hospitals currently do not pay enough attention to psychiatry, and some are even worried that the development of psychiatry will burden hospital management.