Ten departments including the National Health Commission recently jointly issued the "Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Children's Medical and Health Services", which requires the establishment of a high-level children's medical service network, giving full play to the radiating and leading role of the National Children's Regional Medical Center, and gradually reducing cross-regional, Seeking medical treatment across provinces.

Up to now, my country has planned and constructed 16 national children's regional medical centers in provinces with relatively weak pediatric medical resources.

　　National Children's Medical Center-Beijing Children's Hospital is building four national children's regional medical centers in Zhengzhou, Baoding, Xinjiang and Heilongjiang.

At Beijing Children's Hospital Baoding Hospital, Xiaoquan from Weifang, Shandong Province was diagnosed with adrenal neuroblastoma. Hearing that experts from Beijing Children's Hospital were visiting Baoding, his parents took him here for surgical treatment.

Yu Yang, the patient’s parent

: Because the waiting time in Beijing is too long, the conditions here are the same as those there. The experts come directly here to perform the surgery.

　　Koizumi's attending doctor, Chang Xiaofeng, is an expert from Beijing Children's Hospital stationed in Baoding. He spends 4 days a week in Baoding for outpatient visits and surgeries.

Since Beijing Children's Hospital took over Baoding Children's Hospital in 2015, it has sent more than 400 experts to Baoding to help establish four national-level wards for children's tumors, blood, kidney disease, and stem cell transplantation, significantly improving its ability to treat difficult and severe cases.

Tian Jian, President of Baoding Hospital of Beijing Children's Hospital

: The outpatient volume of Baoding Children's Hospital has increased from 250,000 per year at the beginning of our cooperation to nearly 720,000 last year.

The difficulty of our surgeries has also improved significantly, and now our level 3 and 4 surgeries can account for more than 70%.

More importantly, we have improved the level of local medical personnel.

　　High-quality pediatric medical resources are being distributed in a balanced manner

　　With the planning and construction of 16 national regional medical centers for children, high-quality pediatric medical resources are also being distributed in a balanced manner.

　　At seven o'clock in the morning, the employee commuter bus of West China Second Hospital of Sichuan University set off on time, and its destination was the Sichuan Provincial Children's Hospital in Meishan, 70 kilometers away.

This hospital is the first approved national regional medical center in Sichuan Province. It is fully managed by West China Second Hospital of Sichuan University and is responsible for exporting brand, management, technology and talents.

Since the opening of the clinic at the end of 2022, about 50 doctors from West China Second Hospital have been here every week for consultation, ward rounds, and operations.

After more than a year of construction, the pediatric outpatient clinic is now fully open, and 13 clinical systemic disease diagnosis and treatment centers have been built.

Chen Jie, Secretary of the Party Committee of Sichuan Children's Hospital

: For example, for children with blood diseases, in the past, only Chengdu had it, and there were no specialist wards in other prefectures, cities and states in Sichuan Province.

Including pediatric critical care medicine and our respiratory disease center, all have roots here.

　　Up to now, West China Second Hospital of Sichuan University has exported 38 new technologies and projects to Sichuan Children’s Hospital.

Xu Bin, Director of the Sichuan Provincial Health Commission

: Last year, the Provincial Children's Hospital received more than 130,000 outpatient and emergency patients, and the proportion of difficult patients accounted for about 25%. Specialty departments treated more than 90% of special specialist diseases, which greatly alleviated the problems in surrounding areas. Difficulties in seeking medical care for children in the region.

　　Hunan: 94 hospitals in the pediatric medical consortium mutually recognize inspection results

　　The "Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Children's Medical and Health Services" proposes to rely on the medical consortium to optimize the allocation of children's medical resources so that children can get good medical treatment, make medical treatment more comfortable and provide better services.

　　Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital took the lead in establishing a pediatric medical consortium, and implemented mutual recognition and sharing of inspection and test results among 94 member units in the province, making it more convenient for patients to seek medical treatment.

　　11-year-old Xiaoyang from Yiyang, Hunan Province suffers from epilepsy. The disease has been recurring recently, and treatment at the local hospital has had no obvious effect.

So I came to the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital. Different from the previous times, this time the doctors from the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital directly handled the admission procedures based on the examination report they made at the Yiyang Central Hospital in my hometown.

Mr. Duan, a family member of the patient

: The cost is relatively small, so we don’t have to run back and forth.

　　At present, the Hunan Pediatric Medical Alliance covers 94 medical institutions in 14 cities and prefectures across the province, and the results of 56 inspections have been mutually recognized and shared.

Zhao Weihua, Secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital

: As a leading unit, we have also strengthened our guidance to primary medical institutions, ensuring the quality of inspections at primary medical institutions from the source.

　　On the basis of mutual recognition and sharing of test results, the Hunan Pediatric Medical Alliance has vigorously developed telemedicine to alleviate the difficulty of medical treatment for children at the grassroots level.

At the Louxing District Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Loudi City, remote video consultation is ongoing.

A 6-month-old baby suffered from severe respiratory disease, and experts from Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital helped formulate a treatment plan.

Zeng Hua, Director of the First Department of Pediatrics, Louxing District Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Loudi City, Hunan Province

: This is the first exchange transfusion treatment for severe pertussis in children in our hospital.

The child's vital signs are currently very stable.

Ms. Liang, a family member of the patient

: The medical standards here are basically the same as those in Changsha.

It's right in front of my house, so it's quite close.

Then there is the fact that the reimbursement ratio here (medical insurance) is a little higher than that in Changsha.

Yi Saijun, deputy director of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Louxing District, Loudi City, Hunan Province

: With the medical consortium, we have more confidence to deal with some relatively difficult and complex severe cases.

Secondly, the level and technology of the overall team in our primary medical institutions have been rapidly improved.