Guizhou builds local medical consortium

It was learned at a press conference held by the Guizhou Provincial Government Information Office on July 29 that 81 counties and districts in Guizhou have so far carried out the construction of pilot medical communities, and 138 medical communities have been built, covering 1,403 township health centers.

Guizhou issued an implementation plan to promote the construction and development of a medical consortium – which consists of tertiary and secondary hospitals, community hospitals, and village hospitals in the region – and started pilot work in 2021.

In 2021, the leading hospitals of the Guizhou medical consortium helped primary medical institutions carry out 828 new technologies and projects, an increase of 38 percent year-on-year. The consultation rate within counties has remained at 90 percent, and the proportion of outpatient and emergency visits at the grassroots level has reached nearly 57 percent, while medical treatment patterns have gradually improved.

The operation mechanism of the medical consortium has already been established.

Next, Guizhou province will learn from medical reforms in other regions, accelerate the expansion of high-quality medical resources and balanced distribution among regions, and build an orderly medical treatment system.