Xiao Xia, an 18-year-old from Xiaocun Town, Taishun County, Wenzhou City, suddenly suffered from acute abdominal pain.
After being sent to the emergency department of Xiaocun Township Health Center, the problem was solved immediately! The community doctor took out the “remote handheld ultrasound” equipment, and after a preliminary examination for him, the on-site remote connection was made to Peng Chengzhong, a member of the Taishun County Political Consultative Conference and an ultrasound expert at the Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University in Shanghai. After ten minutes, the cause was identified. The community doctor immediately prescribed medicine and injection for Xiaoxia, and her condition was relieved.
Xiao Xia can enjoy such convenient and efficient medical services at the doorstep of her home, thanks to the capacity building and continuation of the National Health Commission. The Education Center implemented the “County-level Medical and Health Personnel Service Ability Improvement Project” in Taishun County. The main initiator, participant and promoter of the project is Peng Chengzhong from Xiaoshan Village, Siqian Town, Taishun County.
Peng Chengzhong is famous all over the country experts in the field of ultrasound. Once, when he saw the relevant news of the National Health Commission’s Capacity Building and Continuing Education Center on improving the service capabilities of medical and health personnel in the county, he thought of the actual situation and needs of his hometown Taishun. Therefore, he combined his professional expertise and helped Taishun to seize this opportunity with the help of Hangzhou Taishun Chamber of Commerce and other forces.
According to the pilot program, Taishun will improve the diagnostic level of county-level and town-level ultrasound departments and promote 3D ultrasound through remote theoretical training, face-to-face simulation operations, clinical practice at bases, and on-site assistance from experts. Cultivation and implementation of new technologies such as contrast-enhanced ultrasound and ultrasound intervention in county-level hospitals; relying on Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, the ultrasound department of 2 county-level medical community leading hospitals (Taishun County People’s Hospital and Taishun County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital) A 5G network-based remote ultrasound consultation system has been established between the ultrasound department and its subordinate township-level clinics to realize real-time ultrasound consultation, distance teaching and remote quality control functions for difficult cases.
For more than a year, through the help of Peng Chengzhong and Taishun Xiangxian, through the Taishun County Government’s self-financing Donated by Hangzhou Taishang Charity Foundation, 4 remote ultrasound consultation systems and 15 handheld ultrasound systems have been deployed, so that the 13 township grass-roots health systems in the county have achieved the same level of ultrasound at the Tenth People’s Hospital of Shanghai Tongji University and the Ultrasound of Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital. Branch remote interconnection.
Yu Xing, deputy director and secretary general of the National Health and Medical Commission’s Capacity Building and Continuing Education Ultrasound Specialized Committee, said that as a first pilot, Taishun County has popularized the application of remote handheld ultrasound based on the Internet among rural doctors. A convenient and practical imaging assessment tool has been added to the rural health prevention and control system. This innovation in diagnosis and treatment mode has the significance of demonstration and promotion throughout the country.
At present, nearly 600 people in Taishun have received tele-ultrasound medical services at their doorsteps, and pericardial effusion, kidney stones, cholecystitis and other diseases have been detected, diagnosed and treated in a timely manner, and medical services have been provided to the grassroots. Greatly improved.
Peng Chengzhong said that the high-speed, stable, and low-latency network effects of 5G have greatly increased the degree of medical technology and resource sharing It has improved the effect of medical treatment. The next step will be to improve the quality and efficiency, so that the people in the hometown have more “medical” dependence on seeing a doctor, and help solve the difficulty and high cost of seeing a doctor for the grassroots.
Author: Tai Xie
Source: Friendship News
Producer: Dong Siting