As a department in the hospital that directly deals with infectious diseases – the infectious disease department( Referred to as the Department of Infectious Diseases, formerly known as the Department of Infectious Diseases)Due to the reduction of disease sources, the Department of Infectious Diseases is often regarded as “chicken ribs”Departments.
As a result, infectious diseases doctors are disadvantaged in terms of treatment, status, and feelings. Yesterday’s in-depth report from the health industry fully elaborated on this: “This department in the hospital “has less money, more work, and less dirty work”, but it determines the fate of everyone“.
“Under the current evaluation system centered on benefits, the infectious disease department is often marginalized, many hospitals do not invest enough, and some hospitals do not even have Department of Infectious Diseases, this epidemic has revealed that the number of infectious disease departments in my country is generally insufficient, and the construction level of infectious disease science departments is not high.”President of Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital, WHO clinical diagnosis and treatment of emerging infectious diseases, training and research cooperation The director of the center, Academician of the American Academy of Microbiology Lu Hongzhou told the health community.
Infectious diseases are in urgent need of transformation and upgrading, which has become the consensus of the industry. Chairman of the Infectious Diseases Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Wang Guiqiang, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Peking University First Hospital, Hu Bijie, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Infection Management, Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, National Clinical Research on Infectious Diseases Center Lu Hongzhou and others all believed that infectious disciplines, clinical microbiology, and hospital infection control should be placed in relatively weak disciplines and departments Organic integration and the formation of a “trinity” model of infectious diseases is the transformation direction of infectious diseases in the future.
As early as the 1980s, my country renamed the “Infectious Diseases Department” as the “Infectious Diseases Department”. Non-communicable infectious diseases are included in the functional scope of the department.
However, it is easy to change the name, but the actual working mode and doctor’s habits cannot be changed overnight. Many hospitals have established large-scale liver disease centers on the basis of infectious disease departments.Under the long-term single disease structure, most infectious disease doctors spend their time and energy on hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and liver cancer. In the diagnosis and treatment of patients, experts from the infectious disease department introduced that they are all “good at treating various types of hepatitis”.
The transformation of the infection department has not been smooth. What’s the reasoning behind? The “National Third-level Public Hospital Performance Assessment Operation Manual(2022 Edition)” issued by the National Health Commission has included infectious disease physicians For example, as one of the assessment indicators, when the number of infectious disease doctors is directly linked to the results of the “National Examination”, can the infectious disease department really get rid of the role of being “disgusted”? How will the discipline construction and personnel training of the infectious disease department change?Where is the way?