Every May 19th is World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day, which aims to raise the awareness and attention of the public and all sectors of society to this chronic disease. It is a festival for the most influential group of IBD patients in the world. On the occasion of World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day in 2022, the IBD team of the Department of Gastroenterology of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University actively organized a series of activities such as free consultation by experts, health church for patients, and “Let Love Shine” Quancheng landmark building lighting support in response to this season’s IBD The arrival of the patient festival.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic nonspecific intestinal Inflammatory diseases, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, are often recurring and incurable for life, seriously affecting patients’ health and quality of life.
Experts’ Caring Free Clinic——The “intestine” is a long way to go with you
As a traditional activity of IBD Day, the expert’s free clinic will be carried out as scheduled this year. At 8:30 a.m., as the first stop of the series of activities, the expert free clinic opened in the square in front of the Huamei Building of Qilu Hospital. There was an endless stream of patients and their family members who came to seek consultation, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Department of Radiology, Department of Pathology, Department of Nutrition, General surgery experts and nursing staff patiently listen to patients’ doubts, answer patients’ disease-related questions, warm their hearts and relieve patients’ anxiety under chronic diseases, and encourage patients and their families to actively face the disease and participate in disease management.
Patient Health Church – there is a power, from the voice of patients
10 am, The IBD Patient Health Church opened in the East Eight Ward of the Department of Gastroenterology in a combination of online and offline methods. Two IBD volunteers participated in the event. They worked hand in hand with the IBD team of the Department of Gastroenterology of Qilu Hospital to walk through the trough of the disease and return to normal life. During the activity, they shared their experience and experience of self-management of IBD disease along the way, and exchanged warmly with IBD patients, encouraged each other, and made progress hand in hand. Voices from patients will help patients who are battling disease regain their confidence and return to health.
Spring City Landmark Building Lighting Up Support – Tonight, Let Love Light Up Jinan
20:00 For 5 minutes and 19 seconds, the landmark building of Jinan Quancheng, the Greenland Puli Center, was lit up, and the brilliant purple theme lights illuminated the night sky of Quancheng, flashing the words “5.19 World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day”, for this year’s World Inflammatory Bowel Disease day aid. IBD patients and medical staff in the gastroenterology ward watched the light-up event via video. The European Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis Association (EFCCA), together with IBD organizations around the world, launched the “Let Love Glow” campaign, calling for the use of purple (the color of World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day) to light up famous landmarks . This light-up activity aims to arouse the society’s attention to inflammatory bowel disease, a long-term and disabling disease, and care for the patient group, so as to help improve the quality of life of patients. This moment, let the city see IBD!
The Gastroenterology Department of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University is one of the first batch of “Chinese Inflammatory Bowel Diseases” in China Diagnosis and Treatment Regional Center” and the “Inflammatory Bowel Disease” team leader unit of the Gastroenterology Branch of Shandong Medical Association, always take the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease as the clinical key work and research development direction of the department, and lead the province to continuously improve the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. promote. The team has an IBD outpatient clinic, and has organized and established Qilu IBD-Multidisciplinary Consultation MDT, including gastroenterology, general surgery, pathology, radiology, rheumatology, hematology, infection, nutrition, psychology, dermatology, etc. The team conducts weekly remote cloud consultation of “IBD is a long road, MDT is often accompanied by” Digestive Specialist Medical Alliance, establishes a follow-up file for each patient, provides an individualized multi-disciplinary “Qilu” diagnosis and treatment plan, and continues to track and observe, so as to make More IBD patients benefit.
“Because love is always there, meet in Qilu”, let the purple lights illuminate our city tonight and illuminate the future where we go hand in hand. Jun Martin Yin Lutu/Cui Ziang)