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China - "Serious shortage" of Pediatricians put Children at Risk in Public Health Emergencies

sharon sanders

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One thousand children corresponds to only 0.23 doctors pediatric doctor-patient dissatisfaction
March 8, 2013 08:53:58
Source: Beijing Times

  Yesterday, the National People's Congress, said Qian Yuan, director of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics Virology current pediatric compared to adult medical situation can not make doctors and patients satisfaction.

  The money渊parents for children's medical environment is very dissatisfied with the mention of pediatrics, eyes immediately appear crowded waiting. Pediatric staff also feel that the work environment unbearable. In addition to hardware problems, the most important reason for this is a serious lack of pediatricians .

  Qian Yuan introduced, according to the documents of the 2005 National Bureau of Statistics, for every one thousand children only corresponds to 0.23 pediatrician, while in developed countries this index is 1.36. Sample survey data show that the Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital and other hospitals, pediatricians per capita daily door, emergency reached 50 to 60 children per doctor; during peak hours, such as respiratory diseases in winter during peak periods, reaching a the doctor daily average outpatient 100 patients .

  "The government departments in order to solve the problem of medical treatment is difficult, now ask for the outpatient pediatrician 24 hours to maintain" that weekends and holidays should provide outpatient for children. So to some extent a serious impediment to further enhance the level of pediatric. Due to the lack of the Primary Children's Medical point, basic medical safeguard health can not cover the area, lack of timely treatment, and also a serious shortage of children to public health emergencies response efforts not only to the part of the sick children.

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