440,000 Xiamen people have family doctors

2016-11-24

 

On November 22nd, Yang Shuyu, the director of Xiamen City Health and Family Planning Commission, answered the mayor’s hotline, listening attentively to comments and suggestions about the contracts with family physicians.

 

It was reported that 443,309 people in Xiamen signed contracts with family doctors between Sept. 5th and Nov. 21st. The signing rate was 21.01% and the family coverage exceeded 30%, covering 213,522 households.

 

Xiamen family doctor services implement "The Three-doctor Joint Management" model, getting closer to management, promoting a high degree of trust and having stronger operability in realising agreements.

 

In addition, Xiamen have provided family doctor services in "The Three-doctor Joint Management" model since 2014, using chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes) as a breakthrough and enabling 1.92 million visits of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases to be treated at a grass-roots level.

 

With the advancement of family doctor services, the lack of grass-roots service staff becomes a bottleneck to the further expansion of family doctor services. In order to solve this problem, Xiamen will let retired doctors and doctors on-the-job volunteer to join, which will also utilise existing medical resources and impel the necessary reforms in public hospitals. It will continue to enhance personnel training as well.

 

It was also reported that the Lingshang Community had more than 700 residents who  had signed the agreements and got free physical examinations. The community family planning staff can also become health managers after receiving unified training and completing tests.

 

[ Web editor:Wu Jianhan, Robin Wang    Source:xmenglish.cn ]