Designated hospitals ready for Olympics, more careful with details
22/7/2008 17:31
Extra large sickbeds, standard bilingual signs, classified drugs, detailed
emergency response plans... as the Olympics draws near, the 24 hospitals
designated to serve the Games in Beijing have been well-prepared, especially
with details.
Jin Dapeng, chief of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the
Olympic Games' medical support group, said all the designated hospitals have
reached the Olympic standard in terms of organizations, working procedure,
bilingual signs, "green passages", barrier-free facilities, and stimulants
management.
The hospitals have not only trained their medical and logistic
service staff of medical skills, etiquettes and language, but also paid
attention to details.
The China-Japan Friendship Hospital, which has been
designated to treat athletes during the Games, has ordered several 2.4m-long
sickbeds, which are 40 cm longer than usual ones, for tall players.
"It's no
problem even if Yao Ming comes," said Xu Shuo, director of the international
medical treatment department of the hospital.
Tian Jiazheng, director of the
medical affairs department of the Beijing Hospital, said they have tagged
"cautions for athletes" or "forbidden for athletes" to all the medicines that
contain stimulants in its pharmacy and trained their doctors and nurses with the
list.
The hospital installed wireless call system in all the toilets of
inpatient and outpatient buildings, provide internet access for inpatients in
the wards, and offered English training to its staff, including doctors in
different sections, ambulance drivers, and reception desk nurses, Tian
said.
"They have been practising English words, phrases and sentences, which
will be commonly used during the Olympics, for four to five months," he
said.
Besides, it has made a three-level emergency response plan for medical
emergencies during the Games, including earthquake, fire, major traffic
accidents, infectious diseases, and bio-terrorist attacks, according to
Tian.
Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences,
which is specialized in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), has been prepared to
shown the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medical treatment, including
acupuncture, massage and psychological treatment, and Chinese medicine to the
world.
However, "we will be very careful with some traditional medicine which
may contain stimulants," said Wang Weidong, vice-president of the
hospital.
Wang said the hospital has spent more than 200,000 yuan (about
28,985 US dollars) to rebuild bilingual signs.
"We also have the standard
translations for TCM, which can be used by doctors when they write the
prescriptions," he said.
Xinhua
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