Symposium reveals medical modernization plan
1/3/2004 18:26
The third International Symposium on Medicine in the 21st Century was held
in Ruijin Hospital over the weekend. The main theme was hospital and medical
center modernization.
Experts and scholars in health care and medical
economics, hospital directors and government officials from both home and abroad
took part in the meeting to exchange ideas to further medical reform in
China.
A municipal level modernization project on medical institutes will
be launched before end of this year, the symposium disclosed.
This
project vows to reorganize the current 27 medical organs in Shanghai into 17
complex hospitals, four specialized hospitals, two mental health centers and
four women and children care centers.
According to the plan, existing
medical organs will undergo renovations, including changing their layouts,
adding service stations for patients convenience, and applying energy-saving
facilities and operation methods.
The plan requires all newly built
medical institutes to arrange less patients-beds within a ward in order to grant
each patient a spacious hospitalizing condition. Average space for each
patient-bed should be no less than six square meters. It also demands all new
hospitals to have at least one-thirds of their landscape covered by green lands.
Hospitals should keep distance from other constructions and social facilities
for epidemic prevention concern.
Shanghai Daily news
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