The official website of the National Health Commission recently released the "Reply to Recommendation No. 2926 of the Fourth Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress" (hereinafter referred to as the "Reply"), announcing the specific content of the National Health Commission's reply to the "Suggestions on Accelerating the Development of Sleep Medicine" put forward by the Deputies of the National People's Congress.
According to the National Health Commission, in recent years, the incidence of sleep disorder diseases has increased year by year, of which the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea is about 3%-7%. As an emerging discipline, sleep medicine has developed rapidly in recent years. Various medical institutions have also gradually attached importance to the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, and at present, many top three hospitals in China have opened sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment centers or sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment clinics.
The National Health Commission, in consultation with the Ministry of Finance, replied to the above recommendations that the state will strengthen the training of scarce talents. Entrust the Chinese Medical Doctor Association to study and formulate the "Catalogue of Specialized Training Specialties for Specialist Physicians (2019 Edition)", which includes sleep medicine in the specialty catalogue, and stipulates that resident physicians who have completed the training of residents in internal medicine, psychiatry, neurology, otolaryngology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and orthodontics can choose to participate in the specialized training of sleep medicine. At the same time, support colleges and universities to strengthen the construction of medical disciplines. By raising the standard of the average quota of medical students, the central government has increased the support for the training of medical graduate students, and given colleges and localities greater autonomy in the use of funds, and colleges and localities can comprehensively support the construction of medical disciplines and the cultivation of talents in accordance with actual conditions and regulations, and promote the development of medical disciplines.
The above-mentioned "Reply" also mentioned that in terms of improving the research system of sleep medicine, the state will strengthen research in the professional field of mental and mental illness. At present, it has established a national clinical medical research center in the field of mental and psychological diseases by relying on 3 hospitals, and the research areas of diseases involving depression, schizophrenia and sleep disorders have been carried out. At the same time, strengthen the financial support for discipline construction. In recent years, the central government has attached great importance to the construction of national and provincial key clinical specialties and continuously increased investment. In 2020, the subsidy funds used by the central government to support the construction of multidisciplinary cooperative diagnosis and treatment disciplines for major diseases and the construction of provincial key specialties will reach 740 million yuan, and all regions can coordinate the construction of clinical key specialties to support sleep medicine according to local conditions.
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