The proportion of outpatient clinics of grass -roots medical institutions declined?The National Health and Health Commission: does not mean that the service capacity is weakened

▲ Nie Chunlei, chief of the National Department of Health and Health Commission, Nie Chunlei answered questions from reporters

On July 14, the National Health and Health Commission held the tenth session of the "All for the Health of the People's — Our Ten Years" series to introduce the progress of the primary medical and health service work since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Data show that in recent years, the proportion of outpatients of grass -roots medical and health institutions has declined. However, Nie Chunlei, chief of the National Department of Health and Health Commission, clarified at the meeting, which did not mean weakening the ability of grassroots medical and health services.

Judging from the number of grass -roots institutions, it is reported that from 913,000 to 978,000. Judging from the number of beds at the grassroots level, from 1.324 million in 2012 to 1.712 million in 2021. Judging from the health staff of grass -roots institutions, it was 3.437 million in 2012 and 4.432 million by 2021. And among health staff, the number of practitioners and assistant practitioners has increased from 109,000 to 1.615 million. The proportion of the number of institutions, the number of beds, the number of grass -roots personnel, and the practice physicians of grassroots personnel are increased. In addition, the proportion of the sanitary staff of the township health centers and the community health centers has also increased the proportion of academic qualifications of the middle university in the middle school. %And 59%are also rising from the perspective of academic structure.

"This shows that our grass -roots institutions have always been developing, and our personnel teams are also developing. Our service capabilities have not actually declined."

From the perspective of the service volume, Nie Chunlei introduced that the number of services for outpatient clinics of grass-roots medical institutions from 2012-2021 increased from 4.11 billion to 4.25 billion. Due to the impact of the epidemic, the outpatient volume of various medical institutions nationwide in the past two years has generally declined. Grass -roots medical institutions have also declined, but overall, it is still steady.

Nie Chunlei also pointed out that grass -roots medical and health institutions are different from hospitals and are also different from disease prevention and control institutions. It has not only assumed basic medical services and a large number of public health services. He listed a series of numbers: hundreds of millions of patients with high blood pressure and more than 35 million diabetic patients each year needed them to follow up. Each year, more than 10 million pregnant women and newborn need them to do the visits and freshmen of the postpartum and postpartum. For children's visit, tens of millions of children need to take preventive needles every year, they need to provide services, and they also have a health check -up for the elderly over the age of 65 and over 100 million.

"Provide these services, the time and energy of each service occupied by the service are actually no less time to watch a clinic, and some will be longer." Nie Chunlei emphasized that it is It should not only look at the proportion of outpatient clinics, but also depends on comprehensive service capabilities. If you add a large number of manpower and material resources invested in the prevention and control of the normalization epidemic, and a large number of work undertaken at the grassroots level, its service ability is still steadily improved.

However, Nie Chunlei also acknowledged that from the perspective of the outpatient volume, the decline in the proportion indicates that the increase in the ability of grassroots medical services to increase the rate of health demand for the health of the people, especially now that ordinary people have high -quality medical services and diversified medical services. The demand has grown rapidly, and there is still a gap in grassroots development. Therefore, in the next step, the National Health and Health Commission will vigorously improve the service capabilities of grass -roots medical institutions and leave more patients at the grassroots level.

Red Star reporter Hu Yiwen Wuyang Beijing Beijing report

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