Zhang Yuhua, Director of the Department of Medical Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Deputy Chief Physician, National Intermediate Genetic Counselor, good at eugenic counseling, prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis, genetic counseling, genetic disease risk assessment, diagnosis and treatment of fetal abnormalities. He is a standing committee member of the first congress of the Hebei Genetic Counseling Professional Committee, a member of the first committee of the Genetic Counseling Branch of the Genetics Society of Hebei Province, a member of the Birth Defect Prevention and Control Professional Committee of the Hebei Eugenics and Eugenics Association, a member of the Perinatal Nutrition Professional Committee of the Hebei Eugenics and Eugenics Association, and a member of the Second Perinatal Medicine Professional Committee of the Xingtai Medical Association. He has published many papers in national journals and core journals, and completed three science and technology development and guidance projects in Hebei Province, one of which won the second prize of Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. Winner of the "May Day Labor Medal" of Xingtai City in 2016.
With exquisite technology for life and health control - Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital Medical Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis Department Director, Deputy Chief Physician Zhang Yuhua
Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital, as the only prenatal diagnosis sub-center in Hebei Province and the Xingtai Prenatal Diagnosis Center in the city, many pregnant women come to visit every day. Zhang Yuhua, who undertakes the medical genetics and prenatal diagnosis of the hospital, and his department team are responsible for the prenatal diagnosis of high-risk groups with screening results, they need to accept and review the samples of the city's prenatal screening institutions, issue diagnostic reports, need to carry out genetic consulting services and pregnancy outcome follow-up for the high-risk groups screened out, and need to carry out timely management and maintenance and information reporting of the city's screening and diagnosis information, with a large workload, heavy responsibility and high risk. As the leader of the department, Director Zhang Yuhua has won the unanimous praise of pregnant women and their families and the high recognition of superior experts with his courageous awareness, exquisite medical skills, noble medical ethics and friendly communication. She said that the provincial expert's sentence "Director Zhang Yuhua of Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital, you can go to her" is the greatest affirmation and encouragement for the prenatal diagnosis work in Xingtai City. Due to his outstanding work achievements, he was awarded the "May Day Labor Medal" of Xingtai City in 2016.
Have the courage to take on the role of building a line of defense for the prevention and control of birth defects in the city
Since joining the work in 1993, Director Zhang Yuhua has been engaged in clinical work in obstetrics and gynecology. In 2014, Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital was identified as the only medical institution in the city qualified to carry out non-invasive DNA prenatal testing, combined with the requirements of strong genetic counseling professionalism and high technical requirements, Zhang Yuhua, who has rich experience and exquisite skills, was selected from the Municipal Maternal and Child Health Hospital to form the Department of Medical Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis to undertake the prenatal diagnosis work in the city. Zhang Yuhua knows that accurate diagnosis results are related to the happiness of every family, and accurate diagnosis reports are inseparable from superb professional knowledge and rich experience and technology. From an ordinary obstetrician and gynecologist to the director of the prenatal diagnosis department, Over the years, Zhang Yuhua has always adhered to a scientific and serious attitude and a rigorous work style to promote the work. She took the initiative to squeeze her spare time to study in national and provincial hospitals, participate in special training, and accumulated rich work experience in genetic counseling, prenatal screening and diagnosis for many years. In 2019, Xingtai City launched a free screening project for pregnant women with deafness genes and free fetal DNA in peripheral blood...
Since the launch of medical genetics and prenatal diagnosis, Zhang Yuhua and her department team have completed the city's prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling with a success rate of 100%, amniotic fluid cell culture success rate of 100%, pregnancy outcome follow-up rate of 100%, fetal loss rate of 0 and a positive detection rate of up to 30%, which has become an important line of defense for the prevention of birth defects in the city, so that patients can enjoy scientific and accurate diagnostic services without leaving the market.
Quality service builds a bridge between patients' "medical genetic counseling"
"Patience and meticulousness, like a spring breeze" is the patient's impression of Director Zhang Yuhua. In the Department of Medical Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, Director Zhang Yuhua can often be heard patiently explaining, "The maternal deafness gene screening project and the non-invasive prenatal gene free screening project can be parallel at the same time, through the extraction of pregnant women's venous blood, sequencing and biological information analysis, you can measure the pregnant woman's own deafness gene carrying, as well as the risk rate of fetus suffering from trisomy 21, trisomy 18, trisomy 13." "Due to the complexity of genetic counseling and the small reserve of medical expertise in patients, it is difficult to communicate with patients. In her work, Zhang Yuhua has always advocated "friend-style" communication, facing every pregnant woman and her family, she will communicate in a homely manner, relieve their nervous and anxious emotions, and use easy-to-understand language to explain the causes, development and prognosis of the disease over and over again, and guide them to actively cooperate in follow-up diagnosis and treatment. In order to let every patient get the best quality service, Zhang Yuhua always arrives at the post early and sends the last patient away from work, interpreting the benevolence of the doctor with practical actions and gaining the trust of the patient. Due to the contact during the work process, Zhang Yuhua and many pregnant women and their families have become friends and become their "health consultants".
Great Doctor Jingcheng built a firewall for the "quality of the birth population" in the city
Zhang Yuhua not only tirelessly climbs the peak of medicine, but also pays attention to doing a good job of "passing on help", and transmits noble medical ethics, friendly attitude and patient communication to the young people around him. At present, Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital has set up a professional and outstanding ability of the "eugenics and excellent breeding" work team. In order to solidly promote and effectively prevent and treat birth defects, they discuss technical knowledge, difficult problems, and communication skills, carry out training around grass-roots supervision and quality control, on-site guidance, improve grass-roots service levels and service capabilities, and achieve "double improvement of technology and service capabilities", the overall screening level of the city has been significantly improved, and the city's medical genetics and prenatal diagnosis have made high-quality and rapid development.
Zhang Yuhua and her team innovated and expanded, took the initiative to plan, built an academic exchange platform, led the establishment of the "Xingtai Preventive Medicine Association Birth Defect Prevention Professional Committee", continued to improve social influence, and gradually built a "city-wide comprehensive birth defect prevention and control system", and the overall work ranked among the best in the province. In 2019, Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital became a member unit of the "Hebei Provincial Birth Defect Prevention and Control Specialist Alliance"; in 2020, Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital was invited to become a "network collaboration unit of the China Deaf Genome Project" due to its outstanding work in "deaf gene screening".
At present, Xingtai Maternal and Child Health Hospital has carried out premarital premarital eugenics consultation, eugenics consultation, genetic counseling, metabolic gene testing, deafness and extended carrier screening, prenatal screening diagnosis and fetal cell chromosome examination and other special service projects, is the city's only Hebei Prenatal Diagnosis Sub-Center, Xingtai Prenatal Diagnosis Center, Xingtai Newborn Genetic metabolic Disease Screening Center and Hearing Screening Center, providing one-stop quality services for the people of the city to give birth to smart and healthy babies, to reduce birth defects, Improving the quality of the population has built a strong defense.
Photo/Text Yang Meng