On the morning of March 21, the China-Cambodia Sino-Cambodia Friendship Hospital, which was built with Chinese aid, was officially opened. The hospital has set up a department of traditional Chinese medicine. Wang Wentian, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia, said in his speech: “China’s national-level TCM expert group will be responsible for technical guidance and preparations.”
Xu Fengqin, the team leader of the expert group and vice president of Xiyuan Hospital, said that this is a TCM expert group dispatched by the national level coordination and reorganization system, and the dispatched units are all first-class hospitals in China. The 12 anti-epidemic experts who arrived in Cambodia this time are all business backbones from various departments of Xiyuan Hospital. In the next step, the National Health Commission will also coordinate the dispatch of a medical team of about 30 people from multiple hospitals. At the same time, some members of the expert group currently in Cambodia may continue to serve.
It is understood that before this, although individual hospitals between the two countries have carried out TCM cooperation, no matter the level of cooperation, the level of hospitals, the scale of personnel, and the time of aid to Cambodia cannot be compared with this time.
On January 25 this year, the “Agreement between the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of China and the Cambodian Ministry of Health on Dispatching Chinese Medicine Anti-epidemic Medical Teams to Cambodia” was signed. Xu Fengqin said that during the preliminary investigation in Cambodia, they visited many local hospitals and had intensive discussions with local officials and Chinese-funded enterprises to learn about common local diseases, the acceptance of Chinese medicine by the Cambodian people, and local Chinese medicine. resources, etc. “The local people’s acceptance of traditional Chinese medicine is very high.” Xu Fengqin believes that this may be related to the large number of local Chinese and overseas Chinese.
In order to better combat the new crown pneumonia epidemic, in 2021, the Cambodian Ministry of Health issued an emergency drug registration certificate for Lianhua Qingwen Capsules and Huashibaidu Granules, and distributed them to designated hospitals. Due to the remarkable curative effect, many Cambodian companies and people have been seeking purchases, and there was a situation where “one medicine is difficult to find”. To this end, the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, and Chinese-funded enterprises in Cambodia have also donated these medicines to ministries and commissions such as the Ministry of Health of Cambodia and local governments such as Phnom Penh on many occasions.
“The role of traditional Chinese medicine in fighting the epidemic has been tested by practice.” Xu Fengqin said confidently, “Since the outbreak of the epidemic, traditional Chinese medicine has been involved in the early stage, participated in the whole process, and adhered to the treatment of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and achieved very good results. And this effect is not limited to China, and it has also achieved great success in the process of many overseas aids to fight the epidemic.” She said that in 2020, Xiyuan Hospital carried out an emergency anti-epidemic rescue mission for a clustered epidemic in the Middle East. The medical team Relying entirely on traditional Chinese medicine in the local area, the victory of “zero serious illness and zero death” was finally achieved.
“After visiting a number of hospitals and with the strong support of the embassy and the Economic and Commercial Office, we finally chose to open an outpatient clinic in Cosma Hospital.” Xu Fengqin said that Cosma China-Cambodia Friendship Hospital is one of China’s gratuitous aids to build Cambodia. The people’s livelihood project, located in the center of Phnom Penh, is an expansion of the original hospital. The new hospital mainly focuses on surgery, with 400 beds and a total construction area of 33,000 square meters. It is considered to be one of the modern public general hospitals with the best physical conditions in Cambodia.
“This is a new hospital built with Chinese aid. The outpatient environment is relatively good and the equipment is relatively advanced, so it can give full play to our role.” Xu Fengqin said that modern Chinese medicine is not just acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, but also pays attention to Chinese medicine. Integrative Western Medicine. There are not only doctors who can perform cardiovascular interventional operations in the expert group, but also nurses specializing in intensive care units and coronary heart disease care units in the medical team.
“For diseases that have not yet been equipped with experts, we will send the relevant disease information back to the remote consultation center of Xiyuan Hospital for ‘cloud consultation’, and then treat them according to the disease.” Xu Fengqin said.
The reporter saw that large-screen TCM intelligent robots were placed on the consultation desks of the hospital and on the tables of various consultation rooms, along with smart pens and questionnaires. Xu Fengqin said: “This is high-tech!” This robot has its own intelligent translation function, which can realize mutual translation between Chinese, Cambodian and English. The robot can also collect the pictures of the patient’s face and tongue during the consultation, and perform color calibration based on the standard color card. At the same time, based on the previous data accumulation and AI model training, it can make a preliminary intelligent auxiliary diagnosis. The questionnaire that comes with the robot is also amazing. It can automatically recognize the Chinese prescription written by the doctor with a special smart pen and convert it into Khmer. At the same time, relying on the robot, all the files of the patient will be recorded in the system, which is convenient for the management of the patient’s medical records.
“There is still a piece of my wisdom in this!” Xu Fengqin said proudly. It turned out that this Chinese medicine intelligent robot is the scientific research achievement of her and the domestic high-tech enterprise Beijing Yikang Medical, based on the national key research and development plan “systematic research on key technologies and application platforms for the inheritance of famous and old Chinese medicine academic experience”.
In addition to Chinese doctors attending clinics in person, Xu Fengqin is also considering the promotion of traditional Chinese medicine in Cambodia. “We plan to set up a small class of about 100 people for the medical workers of Cosma Hospital to conduct popularization of Chinese medicine knowledge, so as to facilitate the cooperation between the two sides in terms of guidance, referral and consultation.” On this basis, she also It is hoped that the academic education of Chinese medicine will be gradually promoted, students who are interested in Chinese medicine study will be discovered, and they will be encouraged to study in China. “Cultivating more local Chinese medicine will not only benefit the Cambodian people, but also better promote Chinese medicine.” Xu Fengqin said. (Economic Daily reporter Zhang Bao)