China News Service, Shanghai, February 28 (Reporter Chen Jing) The Shanghai Birth Defect Prevention and Health Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Center") established the Shanghai Birth Defect Genetic Counseling and Training Expert Group on the 28th, and established the "Shanghai Birth Defect Prevention and Treatment Center". alliance".

　　The 28th is World Rare Disease Day. At the first working meeting of Shanghai Birth Defects Prevention and Health Center, nearly 40 experts from various specialized hospitals and district maternal and child health centers attended the meeting.

Liu Ying, Director of the Birth Defects Prevention and Control Department of the National Health and Health Commission's Department of Women and Children, and Wu Ganyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Health and Health Commission, delivered speeches.

　　Preventing and reducing birth defects is an important foothold for improving the quality of the birth population, promoting the construction of a healthy China and the policy of prenatal and postnatal care.

Wu Qianyu said that Shanghai has gradually formed a more standardized, standardized and institutionalized three-level prevention and treatment system for birth defects, improving the monitoring, analysis, treatment and scientific research level of birth defects. Maternity provides a full range of health screening and diagnosis and treatment services.

Shanghai is at the forefront of precision medicine, and the intervention of genetic testing and other technologies has provided great help for the diagnosis of genetic diseases, rare diseases, and expert evidence-based guidance for clinical diagnosis and treatment.

It is reported that in 2022, Shanghai will promote the further improvement of the three-level prevention and control system for birth defects, strengthen pre-pregnancy eugenic health examinations, optimize prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis counterpart network, and conduct real newborn disease screening.

The clinical research ward was officially opened in Shanghai Children's Medical Center.

Photo courtesy of Shanghai Children's Center

　　It is reported that previously, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission took the lead in conducting standardized genetic counseling training for birth defects. Starting from the source, it provided professional guidance and training for medical personnel in the prevention and treatment of birth defects. Solid policy cornerstone and professional foundation.

　　As the affiliated unit of Shanghai Birth Defect Prevention and Health Center, Shanghai Prenatal Diagnosis Technology Quality Control Center, and National Provincial Birth Defect Talent Training Base, China Welfare Society International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital (National Maternal and Infant) has always attached great importance to the perinatal period Health care is committed to the improvement and implementation of birth defect prevention and control, and has established a full-chain multidisciplinary clinical system and framework from pre-pregnancy - prenatal - postnatal - child health care.

　　Cheng Weiwei, director of the Shanghai Birth Defects Prevention and Health Center and the National Maternity and Infant Director, said: "Primary prevention of birth defect prevention focuses on pre-marriage, pre-pregnancy and early pregnancy inspections and education, while secondary prevention focuses on prenatal diagnosis and screening during pregnancy. The tertiary prevention is based on the inspection and treatment of birth defects in newborns after childbirth. On the basis of the existing three-level prevention and control, this time China's women and infants put forward the 'fourth element' of birth defect prevention and control, that is, inter-medical institutions. Connectivity."

　　It is understood that the prevention and control of birth defects requires high personnel and equipment requirements, which are often difficult for primary medical institutions to achieve.

How to let high-quality birth defect prevention and control resources sink to the common people, let them enjoy convenient and homogeneous medical services at their doorsteps, and improve their awareness of birth defect prevention and control will be one of the key tasks of the center at this stage.

Cheng Weiwei believes that planning to build a regional clinical center for birth defects/prenatal diagnosis, rationally deploying medical grid construction, and connecting high-quality medical resources in series will help the rational allocation and application of medical resources, and realize the medical needs of the people and medical institutions. A "win-win" with limited resources.

　　According to reports, in the future, the Shanghai Birth Defect Prevention and Health Center will establish a whole chain system of birth defect prevention and quality control covering the whole of Shanghai, providing a basis for the formulation of relevant government policies.

　　During the visit, the reporter learned that on the occasion of International Rare Disease Day, the clinical research ward carefully built by the National Children's Medical Center (Shanghai) and Shanghai Children's Medical Center affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine was officially opened. It is a pediatric research ward constructed according to the standard of the laboratory.

　　The ward has a total of 26 beds, equipped with advanced life support equipment, high-definition monitoring system, cold chain management system, etc.

According to reports, the clinical research ward will cooperate closely with domestic and foreign sponsors, adopt the "shared and integrated" operation mode, standardize the undertaking and completion of clinical trials of drugs and medical devices from Phase I to Phase IV, implement whole-process quality control, and create distinctive features. , a high-quality sharing platform for technological innovation and the combination of production, education and research.

　　Professor Zhang Hao, president of Shanghai Children's Medical Center, told reporters that with the support of Shanghai Children's Rare Diseases Clinical Research Center and other parties, the clinical research team of Shanghai Children's Medical Center will build a leading demonstration pediatric research ward in China and solve children's problems. Forge ahead in the face of drug shortages.

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