City to establish two-tier medical training
14/4/2004 18:27
To satisfy the market demand for nurses, Shanghai will set up a
two-tier medical treatment training system: one for medical college and senior
vocational school students, and the other for students in district and
county-level medical schools, according to the Shanghai Health Bureau
yesterday.
Six departments, including the Ministry of Personnel and Ministry
of Education, jointly released a report on personnel shortages, indicating that
the number of nurses needed in China over the next ten years is expected to
increase by one million and by 2015, the number of doctors should be the same as
the nurses, or 2.323 million, with an annual increase of 115,000.
However,
Shanghai currently has only nearly 34,500 nurses, with the ratio of doctors to
nurses reaching 1:0.7, a shortage of 39,400 nurses.
Many treatment workers
have currently occupied the local medical treatment market, said an industry
analyst.
Local communities will have the greatest demand for medical
treatment. The health technology institute of the Shanghai Second Medical
University will offer a health-care discipline specifically for local
communities, said the spokesman with the institute.
In order to establish a
standard medical treatment and management system, Shanghai will not only
increase the number of nurses but also improve their qualifications by
increasing the recruitment numbers of medical treatment institutes by 10-20
percent a year and enhancing the educational credentials of local
nurses.
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
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