Zhao Mingming, 37, is the director of the Department of Sleep Medicine at the People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. When she studied abroad, she found that foreign countries pay more attention to disease prevention, especially to sleep, exercise and nutrition. After graduating and returning to China, Zhao Mingming introduced exercise testing technology to provide comprehensive diagnosis and treatment services for diseased people through sleep, nutrition, exercise, psychology and drug interventions for the population, and summarized a set of experience in sleep diagnosis and treatment and chronic disease rehabilitation. She believes that the importance of "prevention" will be more prominent than "governance."
In October 2021, the Department of Sleep Medicine of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People's Hospital was officially established. In the six months of the department's opening, some patients with sleep diseases such as sleep sickness and hypopnea, which were misdiagnosed as other diseases, found their sleep, and the condition of some patients with related hypertension, diabetes and arteriosclerosis was also reversed.
"The use of medical means to intervene in sleep disorders and improve lifestyles can not only improve sleep, but also play a certain reversal effect on diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and arteriosclerosis caused by sleep disorders, so that patients can sleep healthy!" Zhao Mingming said.
Zhao Mingming attends an outpatient clinic (photo taken on March 15). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming (first from left) and colleagues review monitoring (photo taken on March 15). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming sorts out materials in his office (photo taken on March 15). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming inspects the ward area (photo taken on March 15). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming displays handmade flowers given to her by patients in her office (photo taken on March 15). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming (right) sets up monitoring equipment for patients (photo taken on March 15). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming (left) and colleagues study how sleep monitoring devices are arranged (photo taken on March 15). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming explains precautions to patients (photo taken on March 15). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua