People's Daily Health Client Reporter Shimengzhu
How to break the bottleneck and attract pediatricians? How to better promote the development of pediatrics?
On October 16, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Qian Suyun, a representative of the 20th National Congress and honorary director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Beijing Children's Hospital, replied in response to reporters' questions in the Party representative channel:
Pediatrics is indeed a university department. Because it faces a group of children and involves diseases of various internal organs, there are many professional divisions. For example, our Beijing Children's Hospital has more than 40 clinical majors, which is a university degree. In addition, children are not smaller versions of adults. The occurrence and development of childhood diseases have strong professional characteristics. One is that the child's condition changes very quickly, and the other is that most children themselves cannot express their condition. Therefore, the doctor needs to observe patiently and carefully.
At present, the development of pediatrics in our country is not balanced enough, especially the relatively insufficient high-quality medical resources. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party and the government have attached great importance to children's health and have achieved great results. For example, the number of children's specialty hospitals has increased significantly, and the number of pediatricians has also increased year by year. The intensive care medicine department of pediatrics where I work is also called PICU. In the past, it was only found in large hospitals in big cities.
In the past decade, many municipal hospitals, and even district-level hospitals in some developed regions, have also set up PICUs. This makes the treatment of severe patients more timely and convenient, and reduces referrals between regions. There are also National Children's Medical Center , the establishment of regional children's medical centers, the improvement of the tiered diagnosis and treatment system, etc. These measures have promoted the continuous expansion and sinking of high-quality pediatric medical resources, and gradually led to the balanced development of grassroots hospitals .
I believe that as the whole society further creates a good atmosphere of respecting medical care and health, and more perfecting various policies to promote the development of pediatrics, the children's health cause will surely attract more ideal and sentimental young people to join.
