Source: People’s Daily Online – People’s Daily Overseas Edition
Zhao Mingming (left) and colleagues study how to arrange sleep monitoring equipment. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming displayed the handmade flowers given to her by the patient in the office. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua
Zhao Mingming, 37, is the director of the Sleep Medicine Department of the People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. When she studied abroad, she found that foreign countries pay more attention to disease prevention, especially sleep, exercise and nutrition. After graduating and returning to China, Zhao Mingming introduced exercise testing technology to provide comprehensive diagnosis and treatment services for the diseased population through intervention on sleep, nutrition, exercise, psychology and drugs, and summed up a set of experience in sleep diagnosis and treatment and chronic disease rehabilitation. She believes that “prevention” will be more important than “treatment”.
In October 2021, the Sleep Medicine Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People’s Hospital was officially established. In the six months since the department opened, some patients with sleep sickness, sleep hypopnea and other diseases that were misdiagnosed as other diseases have regained their sleep, and the conditions of some patients with related hypertension, diabetes and arteriosclerosis have also been reversed.
“Using medical means to intervene in sleep disorders and improve lifestyles can not only improve sleep, but also reverse diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and arteriosclerosis caused by sleep disorders. Sleep healthy!” Zhao Mingming said.