Member Wang Daming: Efforts should be made to improve the level of primary medical care in remote areas

"We must pay special attention to the primary medical work in remote areas, and we must not slacken off in the slightest." Wang Daming, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chief expert of the Department of Neurosurgery at Beijing Hospital, said.

In the course of performing his duties, Member Wang Daming found that in recent years, the state has invested a lot in hardware in grass-roots medical institutions, the medical environment has been greatly improved, and medical equipment, such as CT, nuclear magnetism, and gastroscopes, has also been equipped with a lot, but there is a problem that no one will use it. Many advanced equipment has been idle for a long time, resulting in a waste of resources. Moreover, it is difficult for grass-roots medical institutions to recruit highly educated and high-level medical technicians, and the lack of talents has become a bottleneck in primary medical care.

Committee member Wang Daming suggested that long-term, scientific, and effective institutional arrangements be established to help medical personnel in remote areas raise their professional level as soon as possible. It is necessary to promote the downward shift of the focus of medical and health work and realize the sinking of medical and health resources. In the top three hospitals where medical resources are concentrated in various places, a group of doctors and experts can be selected and arranged to work at the grass-roots level in a planned way to help improve the local medical level. At the same time, make full use of Internet technology, build a good Internet medical platform, and carry out standardized remote outpatient clinics, remote consultations, remote rounds, remote teaching and popular science lectures. In addition, it is also possible to organize local retired medical workers to carry out free clinics and teaching at the grass-roots level, and work closely with the attending physicians and deputy chief physicians who work on the job as their supplementary strength. "At present, although the short-term and irregular free clinics are very popular with the people and have solved some problems for the grass-roots level, their role and scope of benefits are limited. The work of free clinics should be normalized and standardized. Member Wang Daming told reporters. (Economic Daily reporter Chang Li)

Source: Economic Daily News Client