【Explanation】 Due to the epidemic situation, the National People's Congress was postponed until May 22 this year. During this special period, many representatives paid close attention to the epidemic situation.
On May 15th, the reporter went to the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University to interview Yang Linhua, the deputy of the National People's Congress. As a doctor with 37 years of front-line work experience, Yang Linhua's most concerned issue is the health of the common people. As a health "gatekeeper" for the grassroots, the role of rural doctors is indispensable.
[Same period] Yang Linhua, director of the Department of Hematology of the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, National People ’s Congress: As a front-line staff, the actual rural doctors are the largest and largest (groups of grassroots medical staff), and they play a very large role. I hope that the national level can continue Pay attention to these people, including their training and their education. I mentioned their old-age care and their medical security in the proposal, so that they can serve our vast rural population without any worries.
[Commentary] In 2019, Yang Linhua established a rural doctor education and training base in Shijiyao Village, Changzhi City, Taihang Mountain. During the epidemic, because most medical institutions could not work normally, Yang Linhua and others and more than 100 local village doctors established a WeChat communication group to help local people solve very practical medical problems.
[Same period] Yang Linhua, director of the Department of Hematology of the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, National People's Congress: I think it is a modern media tool that has played a very important role. The people especially praise it. (And) before the Spring Festival, we mobilized some medical workers of the National Revolutionary Medical Branch of Shanxi Medical University (Study), and we (according to the needs of village doctors) compiled a "Village Doctors Should Know". You can raise a little social power and print it out to them. The problems they usually use are quick (coping), so for example, our form is very good, and slowly this booklet can be expanded.
[Explanation] The Internet played an important role during the epidemic. Yang Linhua said that during the epidemic, the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University conducted remote consultations for many patients who were treated at the grass-roots level, which solved the problem of not being able to see a higher-level hospital during special periods. At present, most of the second-level and above hospitals in the country have established remote consultation centers, and the technology is also very mature, but in some places, the utilization rate is not very high.
[Same period] Yang Linhua, director of the Department of Hematology of the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, National People ’s Congress: So this time I have a suggestion that I want to establish these remote consultation systems on the Internet and use them in hospitals, such as what level of doctor consultation do I have, How to charge, how should the mechanism go, and who is responsible, then let it (remote consultation) be truly institutionalized and standardized.
Report by Liu Yong, Taiyuan, Shanxi
Editor in charge: [Li He]