Several hospitals in Yunnan explore the coordinated development of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in Kunming

The meeting site. Photo by Peng Xi

Yunnan Net News (Reporter Peng Xi) On February 26, the Yunnan Provincial Seminar on the Coordinated Development of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine was held in Kunming. The theme of this conference is “Innovation, Synergy between China and the West, and Common Development”, which is hosted by the Yunnan Association of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine and the Yunnan Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine. At the meeting, the inaugural meeting of the Working Committee for the Collaborative Development of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of the Yunnan Provincial Association of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine was held simultaneously.

At the meeting, 13 participating experts gave keynote speeches on how to promote the coordinated development of Chinese and Western medicine in terms of policy application, model exploration, and talent training.

Yunchao Huang, director of Yunnan Cancer Hospital, believes that the synergy of Chinese and Western medicine is a system. In tumor prevention and treatment, Chinese and Western medicine must be organically combined to give full play to the advantages of both, so that patients can benefit from it. In the cancer hospital, the Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine undertakes hospital-wide consultations, ward rounds, etc., which has benefited many patients during the treatment process and produced good economic and social benefits. In the next step, the hospital will take the initiative to make breakthroughs and innovations, increase the scientific research of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, cultivate high-level talents of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, and strive to build Yunnan Cancer Hospital into a “flagship” hospital for the collaboration of traditional Chinese and western medicine, and in The hospital builds a flagship “department” of traditional Chinese and western medicine to accelerate the pace of collaboration and integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine.

Yuxi People’s Hospital Party Committee Deputy Secretary Yang Ling shared the hospital’s “three major measures” and “two major starting points” to promote the coordinated development of Chinese and Western medicine, saying that the hospital has established a mechanism to encourage traditional Chinese medicine to participate in consultations in various departments , the use of traditional Chinese medicine in various departments, etc., make the synergy of traditional Chinese and Western medicine show outstanding advantages in the hospital’s clinical aspects such as tumor treatment, maternal care, and treatment of skin diseases.

Huang Ping, director of the Second People’s Hospital of Zhaotong City, introduced the development of the hospital from a traditional Chinese medicine department to The six Chinese medicine departments gradually formed the process of the whole hospital’s traditional Chinese medicine and rehabilitation system, and provided reference and suggestions for the participants from the aspects of department construction and mechanism construction.

In this regard, Zheng Jin, vice president of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and president of the Yunnan Provincial Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, believes that the synergy of traditional Chinese and western medicine is to complement and coordinate traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine. developing. He hoped that medical workers should recognize the situation, determine their roles, and work hard; in addition to doing a good job in the undergraduate department, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine should also be a department of traditional Chinese medicine for the whole hospital, and actively promote the establishment of a collaborative working mechanism between Chinese and Western medicine in the hospital; Take the initiative to actively explore the coordinated development model of Chinese and Western medicine suitable for the region and the unit.

More than 150 members of the Yunnan Provincial Association of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine Collaborative Development Working Committee of Chinese and Western Medicine, as well as more than 150 people in charge of medical institutions and related pharmaceutical companies in the province attended the meeting.