69-year-old Liu Yuqin suffers from diabetes. In the past, she had to be accompanied by her family to the county hospital more than 80 kilometers away. It took at least two days for a round trip. Now she can walk to the village clinic for more than ten minutes to receive “local treatment”. treatment by famous doctors.
Since 2019, in Liu Yuqin’s hometown of Tuquan County, Xing’an League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, high-quality medical resources have settled at the grassroots level, and a group of “local famous doctors” have been enriched in township health centers and village clinics. Sickness can be treated at home.
Liu Yuqin suffered from a swollen body due to complications from diabetes. Every morning, she went to the clinic in Baolong Village, Baoshi Town, Tuquan County for acupuncture treatment. “It’s much easier to stick a needle for an hour without delaying going home at noon to do farm work and housework,” Liu Yuqin said. In addition to a few villagers from Baolong Village, there were also patients from neighboring villages who were treated at the Baolong Village Clinic. Dr. Li Chaohui from the village clinic is one of the first batch of “local famous doctors” trained in Tuquan County, and has won the trust of the villagers because of his excellent acupuncture skills.
“After the ‘local famous doctor’ program was implemented in the county, I was sent to study abroad twice, which greatly improved my diagnosis and treatment skills, and acupuncture treatment can be more effective.” Li Chaohui said that in the past, there were only three clinics a day in the village clinic. Five people came to see the doctor, and now the patients waiting for acupuncture are lined up from morning to night, and they are too busy to hire three medical staff.
The village doctor is the “gatekeeper” of the villagers’ health. Tuquan County has improved the ability of the village doctor team, and trained for five types of common local diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Local Famous Doctors”, to solve the daily medical needs of villagers.
Li Chaohui said: “The village clinics are now managed in accordance with outpatient clinics, and there are expert clinics to supervise and guide the village clinics. Seeing a doctor and purchasing medicines are more standardized.”
Li Shuzhi, a villager in Baosheng Village, Baoshi Town, bought medicine for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the village clinic. The toll collector of the town clinic 10 kilometers away settled the medicine fee for her in the medical insurance reimbursement system, and took a photo of the settlement slip and sent it to her. To the village doctor, Li Shuzhi immediately scanned the code in the village clinic to pay, and went directly to the medical insurance for reimbursement.
“The outpatient construction of village clinics is the key to the integration of county and rural medical and health services.” Song Qingjun, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the General Hospital of Tuquan County Medical Group and president of the Baotou Town Health Center, said that the township health center and the village health center After the implementation of unified management, the outpatient volume of township medical institutions is more than three times that of the previous one, two-thirds of which come from village clinics. Diagnosis seamless connection.
The reporter learned that not only Song Qingjun and other vice presidents of county-level medical institutions came to 11 township health centers in Tuquan County to serve as executive directors, but also specialist doctors regularly visit township health centers to achieve full coverage of experts. .
In the first year that Han Ying, a neurologist from Tuquan County People’s Hospital, arrived at the Shuiquan Township Health Center, the health center that had not received patients for many years began to treat patients, and invited specialist doctors to complete 28 operations in the health center. Han Ying said: “The hardware facilities of the health center are complete, but the diagnosis and treatment capabilities need to be improved. We conduct hands-on training for medical staff and invite specialist doctors to visit regularly. Some minor operations that can be completed in the health center do not need to go to the county hospital. .”
When Han Ying first went to the village for free clinic in Shuiquan Town, the villagers always asked anxiously, “Can the health center cure the disease?” Let’s go to the health center first.” Han Ying said, “We must continue to improve the capacity of primary medical services, so that the villagers can’t stay out of the village for minor illnesses.”