Sino-Singapore Online Online, April 24 (Reporter Chen Jing) Shanghai Health and Welfare Committee spokesperson Zheng Jin said on the 24th that the life expectancy of Shanghai's registered population reached 83.66 years, including 81.27 years for men and 86.14 years for women. The infant mortality rate in Shanghai was 3.06 ‰, and the maternal mortality rate in Shanghai was 3.51 per 100,000.
Zheng Jin said that these three major health indicators are internationally accepted comprehensive indicators for evaluating the health level of residents in a country and region. She said that in 2019, the three major health indicators of Shanghai people will continue to maintain domestic leadership, leading the world in developed countries and regions.
According to reports, in recent years, Shanghai has actively promoted the construction of "healthy Shanghai", constantly optimizing the layout of medical resources, vigorously advocating a healthy lifestyle, maintaining and safeguarding the health of citizens in all directions and all cycles, striving to create a high-quality healthy life and weaving a dense city "Guardian net" of public health safety and public life and health.
Relying on city-level general hospitals and pediatric specialty hospitals, Shanghai has built a “7 + 6” treatment network: 7 critical maternal consultation and rescue centers and 6 critical neonatal consultation and rescue centers, which have been connected to 16 districts across Shanghai, forming "Maternal and infant safety and security network covering the whole city, timely response and effective treatment".
Zheng Jin revealed that the rescue rates of critical pregnant women and critical neonates in Shanghai reached 99.2% and 90.3%, respectively; 26 new-vehicle special vehicle configuration projects have been launched to strengthen the transshipment force and create a "mobile NICU". According to reports, Shanghai has 980 ambulances, with an average of 1 ambulance for every 30,000 people. It has 175 emergency stations and the average service radius is shortened to 3.5 kilometers. In 2019, the average response time for first aid was 12.4 minutes.
Shanghai continues to strengthen pediatric capacity building. Shencheng provides pediatric diagnosis and treatment services from 234 to 276 medical institutions. It has promoted the construction of 50 general hospitals for pediatric demonstration outpatient and emergency departments. At present, more than half of the construction tasks have been completed.
It is understood that Shanghai has vigorously promoted the "take-off plan" of clinical specialties, and established a development pattern of "key leading, strong subject, and two wings" for key clinical specialties. Zheng Jin said that at present, Shanghai has formed a group of leading domestic and internationally advanced clinical medical discipline groups. The development pattern of "vibrating the leader, strengthening the main body, and developing the two wings", namely: using the domestic superior specialty as the "leader", benchmarking the international leading level; using the domestic specialty as the "main body", creating a domestic first-class specialty highland; Specialties and emerging, cross-specialties are the "two wings" and foster new growth points. (Finish)