Residents of Xingqing district, Yinchuan, Ningxia, receive healthcare services at a community healthcare center. [Photo provided to seeningxia.com]
In a significant milestone for grassroots healthcare, the Zhangzheng healthcare center in Xingqing district, Yinchuan, Ningxia, recently performed its first-ever secondary surgery.
This historic event marks a breakthrough for the healthcare center and highlights the district's comprehensive efforts to enhance traditional Chinese medicine services at grassroots medical institutions.
The district has been actively promoting the development of tightly-knit medical consortia, with main hospitals providing extensive support and guidance to grassroots medical institutions, thereby elevating their medical capabilities.
As of the end of 2023, 70 percent of healthcare centers and community healthcare service centers in the district had met national capability standards. Of particular note is the fact that the Daxin community healthcare service center had successfully achieved the standards required for a community hospital.
Authorities have also rolled out an online appointment system that reserves outpatient slots, allowing grassroots medical institutions to offer specialist outpatient appointment services from higher-level hospitals to local residents.
To date, grassroots medical institutions in the district have handled a total of 2.98 million outpatient and emergency visits and facilitated 14,000 referrals between different levels of care.
Furthermore, the district has established a digital healthcare management service platform, enabling remote consultations, radiology, electrocardiography, and imaging services.
To date, the district has conducted 162,000 remote electrocardiography consultations, 79,000 remote imaging consultations, and 906 remote ultrasound consultations.
In another pioneering effort, the first AI-powered digital vaccination clinic in Ningxia has been launched at the district's Xinhua community healthcare service center, marking a leap towards informatized, intelligent, standardized, and scientific management of vaccination services.
Residents of Xingqing district, Yinchuan, Ningxia, receive healthcare services at a community healthcare center. [Photo provided to seeningxia.com]