1,497 county-level hospitals will comprehensively upgrade grass-roots equipment purchases

The 14th Five-Year Plan was issued, and over a thousand county-level hospitals ushered in a new round of upgrades! The list confirms that 1,497 county-level hospitals have been fully upgraded Notice” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”)
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The "Plan" requires that through the counterpart assistance of tertiary hospitals, guide the sinking of high-quality medical resources, and continue to promote the comprehensive capacity improvement of county-level hospitals
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By 2025, for counties with a permanent population of more than 50,000, at least one county-level hospital will reach the medical service capacity of a second-level hospital, and strive to achieve the medical service capacity of a second-class hospital
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For counties with a permanent resident population of less than 50,000, we will strive to have one county-level hospital reaching the medical service capacity of a second-level hospital
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The "Plan" simultaneously issued a list of county-level hospitals for this counterpart assistance, a total of 1,497
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This means that in the next four years, with the strong support of the state, these county-level hospitals will be successfully upgraded, and the increased medical equipment configuration capacity will inevitably benefit many medical equipment manufacturers and agents
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As we all know, county hospitals are limited by the scope of diagnosis and treatment services, and there are relatively few excellent doctors and large-scale medical equipment
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However, after the successful upgrade, there will be great breakthroughs in both medical service capabilities and the configuration of medium and large medical equipment
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Therefore, this wave of county hospitals to be upgraded is also particularly important for equipment dealers and manufacturers in relevant regions
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It is worth noting that these 1,497 county-level hospitals are mainly distributed in counties focusing on poverty alleviation, taking into account autonomous counties, land border counties, and counties with weak medical service capabilities
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On November 3 this year, the General Office of the National Health and Health Commission issued the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the "Thousand-County Project" County Hospital Comprehensive Capacity Improvement Work Plan (2021-2025)", and it was also clear that 1,000 county-level hospitals should be selected.
In 4 years, we will comprehensively strengthen the specialist capacity, the construction of five major centers, and continue to strengthen the transformation of medical equipment and other hardware equipment.

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These 1,000 county-level hospitals are also required to focus on poverty alleviation areas, three districts and three prefectures, the former Central Soviet District, and relocation and resettlement areas for poverty alleviation
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In other words, these two national-level policies are bound to favor these thousand county-level hospitals
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The market has expanded by more than 10 billion yuan, and the window period of "making up for shortcomings" in the post-epidemic era continues.
As early as last May, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Public Health Prevention and Treatment Capacity Building Plan".
In the part of comprehensively improving the treatment capacity of county-level hospitals, The "Plan": First, the construction goals are required to meet the needs of the county urbanization to make up for the shortcomings, and the layout should be appropriately planned ahead of time, focusing on improving the infrastructure conditions of 1 county-level hospital (including the county hospital of traditional Chinese medicine).
The increase brought by medical equipment such as ventilators, analyzers, and color Doppler ultrasounds is about 3.
079 billion yuan
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The second is to set up intensive care beds according to 2-5% of the total number of beds, which can be used as general beds in "normal times", and equipped with necessary medical equipment such as ventilators according to different scales and functions, and can be converted immediately in the event of a major epidemic.
The increment brought by medical equipment such as monitors, ventilators, analyzers, and color Doppler ultrasounds is about 5.
688 billion yuan
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A total of about 8.
767 billion yuan has been added
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In the post-epidemic era, county-level medical care has obvious shortcomings in first aid and critical care capabilities.
This "Plan" also clearly proposes to strengthen stroke centers, chest pain centers, trauma centers, treatment centers for critically ill pregnant women, and treatment centers for critically ill children and newborns, etc.
Construction of emergency emergency center
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Improve the rescue capabilities of critically ill patients, the prevention and treatment capabilities of major epidemics, and the emergency response capabilities of major public emergencies
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It can be said that poor counties and county-level medical care in the central and western regions are bound to further increase the configuration capacity of basic equipment such as emergency equipment
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Tens of billions of financial funds are focused on these hospitals.
Financial support has been increasing for poor counties and county-level medical care in the central and western regions.

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Just on December 3 last year, the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China issued the "Notice of the National Health and Health Commission of the Ministry of Finance on the 2021 Subsidy Budget for the Improvement of Medical Services and Security Capabilities"
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586 billion yuan: used to support the capacity building of county-level medical and health institutions and the pilot work on the construction of regional medical centers led by the National Development and Reform Commission
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832 poverty-stricken counties will be subsidized according to the standard of 4 million yuan/county, the rest of the poverty-stricken counties will be subsidized according to the standard of 2 million yuan/county, and the counties with weak medical service capacity in the central and western regions will be subsidized according to the standard of 2 million yuan/county
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In fact, this is not the first time this year that the central government has allocated funds to county-level hospitals.
As early as the end of 2020, the Ministry of Finance, the National Health Commission, and the Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued "About the Advancement of the 2020 Medical Service and Support Capability Improvement (Comprehensive Reform of Public Hospitals)" Notice of Grant Fund Budget
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996 billion yuan of subsidy funds were allocated to 1,971 counties, 338 cities and 703 municipal districts, with a total of 3,012 city and county hospitals covering 31 provinces across the country
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The provinces and cities have also been increasing their investment
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At the beginning of September last year, in the "Fujian Province County Medical Community Capacity Improvement Project Implementation Plan (2021-2025)" issued by the Fujian Provincial Health and Health Commission, it also stated that within five years, the province's 25 weak county (city) general hospitals should be fully Reach the second-class level, and 50% of them meet the national and county hospital medical service capacity recommendation standards (equivalent to the level of tertiary hospitals)
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25 weak county (city) general hospitals are subsidized by 13 million yuan, 11 million yuan, 9 million yuan respectively; 34 general county (city, district) general hospitals are respectively 8 million yuan, 5 million yuan, 4 million yuan, 200 yuan million grants
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Undoubtedly, with the simultaneous issuance of policies and funds, the service and diagnosis and treatment capabilities of a large number of primary medical institutions across the country have entered a fast lane
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There is no doubt that with the dual support of policy and finance, poor counties and county medical care in the central and western regions are bound to usher in a new wave of medical device market allocation
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