The epidemic in Xi'an has touched the hearts of too many people. On the one hand, the seriousness of the epidemic itself, on the other hand, the various problems exposed behind the epidemic.
First, a pregnant woman was sent to Xi'an High-tech Hospital by the police at the time of the birth. Although the police have helped pregnant women coordinate many times, pregnant women cannot be admitted to the hospital because of nucleic acid problems, and finally sit at the hospital door and wait, so that they miscarry after heavy bleeding, and the 8-month-old child is stillborn.
In the second incident, the father of a woman was admitted to Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital due to sudden angina pectoris. Similar to what happened to the pregnant woman above, the woman's father was also rejected.
It was not until 8 hours later that he was admitted to the hospital, but at this time he was unable to return to heaven, and finally died of ineffective rescue.
On the morning of the 7th, the media reported several similar incidents one after another.
At this moment, Xi'an High-tech Hospital and Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, these two hospitals have also been on the cusp of the storm. Intriguingly, both hospitals are one capital and both are for-profit hospitals.
Private hospital is a chinese term, private hospital refers to the health institutions funded by the society and run by for-profit institutions. Since China implements state-owned management of hospitals, public hospitals are directly managed by local health departments, while the establishment of private hospitals must be approved by local health departments. Although the policy does not restrict the establishment of private hospitals, the health department, out of the protection of public hospitals, is very strict with private hospitals in the approval process, and it is difficult for private hospitals to develop in such an environment. In September 2001, China opened up the medical market and encouraged the development of private medical institutions, and private hospitals began to appear in large numbers in society.
Although for-profit hospitals are not completely equivalent to private hospitals, because the current medical institutions are mainly divided into public and private, we can understand it as approximately equal to private hospitals, and we will analyze the following from the perspective of public and private.
Is it reasonable for for-profit hospitals to be so named?
Before there was no accident in these two hospitals, I think many people will mistakenly think that these two hospitals are public hospitals, after all, the name is too confusing.
One is a high-tech hospital, which at first glance thought to be a hospital in a development zone in Xi'an; and Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, the name is even more confusing, it sounds very tall, and even a little bit of a local "public authority" feeling.
In fact, before this accident, many similar problems were exposed in many places, such as the Fifth People's Hospital of Xuchang City, the Baoji High-tech People's Hospital and the Third People's Hospital of Xiantao City.
These names are even more outrageous, not only extremely confusing, but also added the word "people".
Not only these, but the flood of "Union Hospital" and "Huashan Hospital" and other old brands are even more difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Can private hospitals use these names? Definitely not!
In the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Regulations on the Administration of Medical Institutions, detailed provisions have long been made on the naming of medical institutions.
In the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Health, the names of "central hospital" and "clinical laboratory center" must also be public medical care at all levels
Institutional use.
Therefore, like the two hospitals mentioned above, not only do they have the prefix "Xi'an" prefix, but also the suffix "International Medical Center", which is not compliant.
Are public hospitals better or private hospitals?
It's hard to give a concrete answer to this because there are so many aspects involved. However, we can compare from the following dimensions.
Team of doctors
Public hospitals are more rigorous in the selection of doctors, layer by layer, basically some elite. However, the team of doctors in private hospitals is not far behind, after all, doctors are also people, and they also need to live, and they can't just talk about dreams without talking about reality.
But the benefits of public hospitals are indeed worse than those of private hospitals. After all, private hospitals do not have the social status and stability of public hospitals, so they can only attract excellent talents through high salaries.
Therefore, the two are indistinguishable in comparison.
Cost of treatment
This should be the biggest difference, although any hospital needs to survive, but public hospitals because there are a series of rules and regulations there, in the cost of treatment will not make patients feel how "pit" it is.
But private hospitals are different, they are for-profit hospitals after all, and for-profit means that profit is the first priority. So, that's why many of us prefer to trust public hospitals rather than private hospitals.
Service attitude
There is no doubt that the service attitude of public hospitals is really good, after all, once patients complain, it is not a trivial matter. The service attitude of private hospitals is not as bad as imagined, after all, people are for-profit. However, the real service attitude is still based on the personal qualities of the doctors and nurses.
Through the above comparison, we feel that there is not much difference between public hospitals and private hospitals, how can we feel that public hospitals are more reliable?
Why are public hospitals more reliable than private hospitals?
This question is still the same, and it must be viewed from several dimensions.
The first is in terms of scale, although there are many private hospitals at present, as of 2019, there are 23,200 private hospitals in the country, and the scale looks very large. In contrast, public hospitals are much smaller, with only 11,941 in the same period.
But in terms of strength, private hospitals are lagging behind.
Hospital qualifications
Among the first-level hospitals, there are indeed many more private hospitals than public hospitals, with 7371 and only 2679 public hospitals. But as the hierarchy goes up, public hospitals gradually account for more than private hospitals. By the time tertiary hospitals arrived, private hospitals accounted for only 2.27%.
Hospital bed quantity
A 2018 data shows that the number of beds in public hospitals accounts for 73.7% of the total, and the rest are private hospitals. It can be seen that the few public hospitals have more beds.
Department situation
We can see that those large general hospitals are basically public hospitals. Private hospitals are different, their departments will basically choose those with relatively small risks, and those departments with relatively large risks will basically not be set up by private hospitals.
How to tell if a private hospital is really good?
Wanting to judge whether a private hospital is good or not, whether there is medical skills and whether there is arbitrary charges is on the one hand, and more is the following aspects.
Peer word of mouth
Whether you are doing well or not, even if the patient is not clear, the eyes of your peers are snow bright. If you're falsely publicized, overly medicalized, or even kidnapped, you're sure to be despised in the eyes of your peers. At this time, even if your economic benefits are good, it is difficult to get the respect of your peers.
Patient satisfaction
Patient satisfaction is actually the most difficult, after all, it is necessary to cure the disease, but also to charge within a reasonable range, but also to have a good service attitude, not to spend money and so on.
Employee value
No matter what the work, if a company really does a good job, every employee in it will be full of passion and morale. So a private hospital is the same, if it is really good, then the staff will have more passion, will also feel that their self-worth is fully demonstrated, will only increase the investment.
Through the above analysis, we can clearly find that in fact, it is still difficult for many private hospitals to completely do this. Take these two private hospitals in Xi'an, for example, they are obviously unqualified!
It can only be said that the public is for the people's livelihood, while the private is the icing on the cake, nothing more!