Zhejiang Provincial Medical Assistance to Xinjiang Specialty Alliance has been working for seven years to improve the capabilities of primary medical services in border areas

China News Service, Urumqi, November 12 (Yang Yang Jiangshan) "Batches of experts assisting Xinjiang have passed on experience and led teams, which has greatly improved the medical service capabilities of grassroots hospitals. I believe that in the future, more and more diseases can be diagnosed and treated in the county, and more people in the border areas can receive medical treatment at their doorsteps." Speaking of the development of the specialist alliance, Ma Tao, deputy secretary of the party committee and president of the First Division Hospital of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, said in a recent interview.

Since 2019, the Zhejiang Provincial Aid to Xinjiang Headquarters has taken the lead in establishing the Medical Aid to Xinjiang Specialty Alliance. The First Division Hospital has established medical consortium cooperation with seven counties and two cities in the Aksu region to promote the full penetration of high-quality medical resources and make the vision of "serious diseases not leaving the county" and "difficult and critical diseases not leaving Xinjiang" become a reality.

Specialty alliances weave a network to build a new regional medical pattern

From September 28 to 29, Ma Tao, who is also the director of the Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Medical Aid Specialty Alliance Management Committee, signed cooperation agreements with Kuqa City and Xinhe County People's Hospital respectively to establish a "long-term assistance" mechanism through resource sharing, long-term training, remote consultation, etc.

As an important force in the medical and health field in southern Xinjiang of the Corps, the Specialty Alliance gives full play to the technical assistance role of the First Division Hospital Medical Alliance and regularly organizes experts to assist Xinjiang to go to county, town and regiment hospitals.

At each visit, the expert team sat side by side with doctors from township health centers and county hospitals, conducted joint ward rounds, and jointly read films, and taught diagnosis and treatment ideas and operating procedures step by step during the diagnosis and treatment of real cases. From "one-time assistance" to "long-term teaching", we strive to leave the most solid technical fire.

The Specialty Alliance has worked one after another to continuously export high-quality medical resources to the grassroots. In the past seven years, it has carried out 292 technical exchanges and sinking services, involving 2,681 professional and technical personnel, and promoted 47 unique diagnosis and treatment technologies.

Help county-level hospitals to implement routine operations at level 2 and above, and achieve breakthroughs in minimally invasive technology from scratch, from strong to sophisticated. Promote the significant improvement of the specialty capabilities, diagnosis and treatment capabilities and standards of grassroots hospitals, making the health commitment of "serious diseases not leaving the county" more weighty and confident.

The medical services of the specialist alliance have now radiated to the First, Third, and Fourteenth Divisions as well as Kashgar, Bazhou and other places. The joint construction and sharing of medical resources in the military and local areas, exchanges and integration have been deepened and consolidated.

Provide technical training and educate people to cultivate a new force in primary care

The Specialty Alliance regularly carries out free disease screening activities. Since 2021, it has provided free screening and diagnosis and treatment services to nearly 30,000 children in Aksu and the First Division through charity relief projects such as "Qiming Action", "Aiyou Charity Fund", "Oral White Teeth Action", "Looking for Minions", "Water and Fire Lovers".

Successfully implemented 239 free interventional surgeries for congenital heart disease, applied oral fluoride to children in more than 800 cases, and treated 25 patients with burns and scalds. It has spread to the Third Division, the Fourteenth Division, Kashgar, Kezhou and other places. Through the "operation demonstration + on-site teaching" model, it has not only benefited the masses, but also improved the capabilities of grassroots doctors.

"Ma Tao Famous Doctor Studio" was listed in Awati County and Xinhe County People's Hospital respectively; Ma Tao and Li Ping's "Medical Community Surgery Famous Doctor Studio" was settled in the First Division Hospital Medical Community. The expert team has cultivated a large number of professional backbones for the local area through "mentoring and apprenticeship", famous doctor studio and other methods.

Every year, the Specialty Alliance takes support measures such as further study and training to allow doctors from the grassroots level to study and recharge regularly to ensure that doctors at the grassroots level keep up with the forefront of medicine.

Itinerant medical free clinic services are delivered directly to people’s doorsteps

On June 12, the Specialty Alliance came to Tamutoglak Town, Awati County, to carry out a free medical clinic tour. During the busy farming season, the medical team specially set up free clinic tables and health examination vehicles next to the town's bazaar.

People came in an endless stream after hearing the news. The experts conducted detailed consultations, checked various imaging data and laboratory test sheets carried by the patients one by one, and conducted comprehensive research and judgment based on the preliminary on-site inspection.

Before the event, experts also conducted preliminary research on the local disease spectrum, based on which they accurately prepared commonly used drugs for common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, and distributed them to patients in need free of charge.

Free clinic activities focus on the health needs of people of all ethnic groups, deeply integrate convenient diagnosis and treatment with health science popularization, and put the health concept of "early detection and early treatment" into the hearts of local people, effectively filling the "blind spots" of people's medical treatment.

In the past seven years, the Specialty Alliance has carried out more than 480 health education and free clinic tours, covered more than 60,000 people with health science popularization, and delivered free medical and medicine worth more than 900,000 yuan. It has continued to sow the "seeds" of health, allowing people to receive good medical care at their doorsteps.