China News Service, Nanchang, May 30 (Reporter Wu Pengquan) On the 29th, the China Cancer Foundation and the China Association for the Promotion of Ideological and Political Work in Health and Health launched the "Red Training Project for the Construction of Tumor Centers in Old Revolutionary Areas" in Nanchang, Jiangxi. 200 medical experts gathered here to discuss the construction of the tumor center of the Revolutionary Old District Hospital.

  Ruijin, Zunyi, Yan'an, Bijie, Changting, Huining, Tangxian and other old revolutionary areas have made major contributions and sacrifices to the victory of the Chinese revolution.

According to Kong Lingzhi, vice chairman and secretary-general of the China Cancer Foundation, the foundation launched this training program to further enhance the tumor diagnosis and treatment capabilities of medical institutions at all levels in the revolutionary old area.

  Fang Fang, deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Health Commission, expressed his gratitude to the organizers for their concern for the people in the old area, and hopes that the participants will cherish and make good use of this rare learning opportunity, strengthen academic exchanges with colleagues in the industry, and share friendship and mutual understanding. Seek development and talk about the future together.

  In recent years, the incidence of cancer in China's urban and rural areas is higher than that in rural areas, and the mortality rate in rural areas is higher than that in urban areas. The capacity building of grassroots tumors needs to be strengthened urgently.

As the organizer of the event, Wen Xiaoming, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangxi Cancer Hospital, said, “We must actively promote the development of hospital disciplines, enhance cooperation and exchanges with hospitals in the revolutionary old districts, achieve common development, and add new impetus to'Healthy China'.”

Around the topic of how to develop the feasibility of tumor center construction in the old revolutionary district hospitals, the participating experts expressed their opinions.

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  The lack of oncology radiotherapy professionals and the different levels of primary clinical staff have become an important problem that urgently needs to be solved in the construction of oncology centers in primary hospitals in the old revolutionary base.

Zhao Ping, President of the China Cancer Foundation and chairman of the conference, said, “We keep in mind the great contributions and sacrifices made by the people in the old districts, support the hospitals in the old revolutionary areas to strengthen the construction of primary tumor centers, and strive to benefit patients in the old revolutionary areas and improve people’s health. Greater contribution."

  Around the topic of how to develop the feasibility of tumor center construction in the old revolutionary district hospitals, the participating experts expressed their opinions and provided suggestions.

Wang Huitao, business dean of Tang County People’s Hospital in Hebei Province, introduced the “Tang County Plan”, and Chu Jianhua, deputy dean of Hai’an People’s Hospital in Jiangsu Province, shared the development history from zero to No. 1 in the oncology department of China’s county hospital brand specialty selection.

Qiu Jie, director of the Medical Engineering Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital and professor of the Department of Radiotherapy, said that the Department of Radiotherapy at Peking Union Medical College Hospital will spare no effort to support the development of high-quality tumor radiotherapy in the revolutionary old area.

  The reporter learned that the grassroots cancer center construction training project launched by the China Cancer Foundation in July 2019 includes three stages: county hospital director training, radiotherapy professional training, and cancer multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment center construction training. As of the end of December 2020, the project's online training has covered nearly 2,000 trainees from more than 800 hospitals, including trainees from 31 provinces across the country and overseas. (Finish)