The number of Chinese physicians reached 4.086 million (Big Health Observation)
Support the world‘s largest medical and health service system
Our reporter from Beijing (Reporter Xiong Jian) learned from the National Health Commission: By the end of 2020, there were 4.086 million physicians in China, covering all major medical majors including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, and pediatrics. The number of physicians per 1,000 population reached 2.9. . Among the physicians, 59.5% have a bachelor degree or above, and 45.8% have intermediate or higher technical titles. In 2020, the total number of consultations in medical and health institutions nationwide will reach 7.74 billion, and the team of Chinese physicians will support the world‘s largest medical and health service system.
Health is the common yearning and pursuit of the broad masses of people. Maintaining people’s health is the original intention and mission of the majority of physicians. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has taken strengthening the construction of the physician team as the basic work for implementing the healthy China strategy and deepening the reform of the medical and health system, strengthening the top-level design, perfecting the implementation path, and promoting the building of the physician team. Sexual achievement.
Firmly based on the basic national conditions, follow the law of medical talent growth, coordinate all aspects of strength, continue to increase and optimize the supply of physician resources, and provide solid human support for the development of health care. In the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the vast number of medical workers represented by doctors quickly assembled, rushed to the front line, and continuously fought. They have made great contributions to seizing the major strategic results of the fight against the epidemic, won the high praise of the party and the people, and embodied the great resistance. The spirit of the epidemic has demonstrated the fruitful results of the development and construction of the doctor team under the leadership of the party.
Pay attention to the advantages of the system, encourage physicians and medical workers to develop medical technology, improve the quality of medical care, and continuously enhance their ability to serve the people’s health. China has isolated Chlamydia trachomatis, synthetically synthesized crystalline bovine insulin for the first time in the world, and performed the first amputated limb replantation operation. It is treating extensive burns, treating choriocarcinoma with chemical drugs, and developing new anti-malarial drugs, artemisinin, and liver cancer. A series of medical technology innovations have been achieved in early diagnosis and treatment, differentiation induction therapy for leukemia, and prevention and treatment of major infectious diseases. Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. A number of new crown vaccines independently developed by the Chinese vaccine research and development team have been used for global epidemic prevention and control.
Through unremitting efforts, China has become one of the countries with the greatest improvement in the ranking of the “Global Medical Service Access and Quality Index”. The average life expectancy has increased from 35.0 years in the early days of the founding of New China to 77.3 years in 2019, and the maternal and infant mortality rates have dropped from about 1500/100,000 and 200‰ to 16.9/100,000 and 5.4‰ in 2020. The health level is generally better than the average level of middle- and high-income countries.
Carry forward the spirit of reform and innovation, based on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, deepen the reform of doctor management, and significantly stimulate the potential of doctors’ practice vitality.
Initiate the implementation of the reform of the title system for health professionals, resolutely eliminate the “four only” problem, highlight the orientation of clinical practice, reflect the characteristics of Chinese medicine talents, and encourage the flow of doctors to difficult and remote areas and the grassroots.
Expand new forms of medical services, encourage qualified physicians to conduct Internet medical treatment, facilitate medical treatment for the masses, and help prevent and control the epidemic.
Exploring the multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment model, organizing the collaboration of doctors and technicians of different professions, focusing on prevention, and promoting the establishment of a medical service model that covers the whole life cycle and the whole process of health.
Fully implement the reform of physician registration management, use information technology to promote physicians from single-point practice to multi-point practice, and then to regional registration. The radiation leading role of high-quality physician resources is fully released, and the masses can enjoy high-quality medical and public health services at the grassroots level. . Up to now, the number of doctors practicing in multiple institutions across the country has reached 304,000, of which more than 40% are practicing at the grassroots level.
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