Yunnan’s first TCM international medical service pilot opens and runs

China News Service, Kunming, November 11 (Shi Wenzhi) The International Medical Department of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was launched at the Dianchi Campus of the hospital on the 11th, marking the opening and operation of Yunnan's first pilot program of international medical services of traditional Chinese medicine. The hospital will use the service model of "traditional Chinese medicine characteristics + international standards" to provide standardized, personalized and convenient services to foreign medical patients, high-end commercial health insurance people and people with special needs.

Yunnan Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was founded in 1947. It is a national international cooperation base for traditional Chinese medicine and one of the first batch of national traditional Chinese medicine service export bases. The hospital has long carried out foreign exchanges and cooperation in traditional Chinese medicine and has mature experience in cross-border medical services. According to statistics, in the past five years, the hospital has served nearly 5,000 patients from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; it has sent acupuncture experts to Uganda to perform foreign aid medical missions, serving more than 1,000 local people; and it has received a total of 1,110 overseas training teams.

The International Medical Department of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is located in the Dianchi Campus of the hospital. With the whole chain of health management of "prevention-treatment-wellness-maintenance-management" as the core, it focuses on collaborative Chinese and Western medicine outpatient clinics, inpatient diagnosis and treatment, customized health examinations and traditional Chinese medicine special treatments. It is equipped with full-time medical nurses, pharmacists, medical technicians and multilingual service personnel. It has independent outpatient areas, inpatient wards and health examination areas to realize full-process closed-loop services for outpatient examinations and inpatient physical examinations.

"Building an international medical service pilot is an important measure to serve Yunnan's construction of a radiation center for South Asia and Southeast Asia, and to promote the construction of a healthy Yunnan and the development of traditional Chinese medicine service trade." Xie Hongbin, deputy director of the Medical Affairs Department of the Yunnan Provincial Health Commission, said that the Yunnan Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital has distinctive characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine and a good foundation for international cooperation, so it has good conditions for building an international medical department. It is hoped that the hospital will transform the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine into a service brand, improve international medical services, and allow more international patients to experience the unique charm of traditional Chinese medicine.

Xu Liya, Secretary of the Party Committee of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that the hospital will adhere to the synergy of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, highlight the unique advantages of acupuncture, massage, rehabilitation and disease prevention, build a service brand, and deepen cooperation with South and Southeast Asian countries and related regions in personnel training, clinical training, academic exchanges and remote consultation, and expand open cooperation space.

"We will rely on the advantages of Yunnan's traditional Chinese medicine resources, focus on the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, give full play to the advantages of preventing diseases, use acupuncture, massage and other traditional Chinese medicine methods to provide personalized health solutions and enrich the supply of international medical services." said Xu Hong, chief physician of the Department of Preventive Disease Treatment of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.