As a part of medical system reform, six major hospitals in
Beijing will set up branches in the suburbs to provide
high-standard service to patients on the outskirts of the
capital.
The first clinic, affiliated with China Medical University
(CMU), opened in the Shunyi District on April 2. The branch aims to
build a regional medical center serving nearly 800,000 residents in
the district and neighboring rural areas, and plans to exchange
research achievements and clinic resources with its parent
hospital.
The current cooperation will focus on medical exchange, as every
month dozens of famous experts from the parent hospital will
provide service in Shunyi and the local doctors will have the
opportunity for advanced training in the big hospital.
"We will notify local residents of the experts and their
specialties one week before their arrival," said a representative
involved with the project.
Apart from the Shunyi branch affiliated with CMU, five more
major hospitals, including Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing Obstetrics
and Gynecology Hospital, Beijing Municipal Hospital of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, and Capital Pediatric Research Institute, will
initiate medical service exchanges by setting up sub-branches.
According to the capital's medicare plan, in the next five
years, 10 remote districts of the city will set up respective
regional medical centers by relocating local medical resources on
the basis of service exchange with urban hospitals. The plan is
expected to provide better medical services to suburban residents
and ease the difficulties involved with long distance travel to
urban hospitals for those with serious diseases.
(China.org.cn by Huang Shan, April 5, 2007)