[**Taizhou Municipal Health Commission Municipal Dynamics].
On December 11, the unveiling ceremony of the governing unit of the Yangtze River Delta Genetic Counseling and Diagnosis Network was held in Taizhou Women and Children's Hospital affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University.
Professor Qin Shengying, Secretary-General of the Yangtze River Delta Genetic Counseling and Diagnosis and Treatment Network, Sun Haiyu, Director of the Population, Family and Maternal and Child Health Division of the Taizhou Municipal Health Commission, and Zhu Xueqiong, Executive Director of Taizhou Women and Children's Hospital Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, attended the ceremony.
At the ceremony, the Yangtze River Delta Genetic Counseling and Diagnosis and Treatment Network was first introduced. The network was initiated by He Lin, a genetic biologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-hosted by the Bio-X Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Shanghai Pudong Institute of Decoding Life Sciences. Under the concept of "new medicine", relying on the joint establishment of many medical institutions in the Yangtze River Delta region and even across the country, it brings together many medical genetics and clinical experts, and is committed to promoting the education, popularization and multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment model (MDT) of genetic counseling to serve a healthy China.
Academician He Lin said in his speech that the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University and Yuying Children's Hospital are the first six first-class hospitals in Zhejiang Province. In the ranking of scientific and technological influence of Chinese hospitals, pediatrics ranks among the top 20 in the country, and obstetrics and gynecology ranks among the top 30 in the country. Taizhou Women and Children's Hospital affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, as the second affiliated hospital of Wenzhou Medical University and Yuying Children's Hospital, will provide higher quality medical and health services for women and children in Taizhou by relying on high-quality medical strength and with the help of high-quality resources of the Yangtze River Delta genetic consultation and diagnosis and treatment network.
Zhu Xueqiong said that joining the Yangtze River Delta genetic counseling and diagnosis and treatment network will provide a strong medical resource guarantee for the hospital's genetic counseling and diagnosis and treatment. With the help of the Yangtze River Delta genetic counseling and diagnosis and treatment network, high-level experts from various disciplines can be invited to consult patients efficiently and conveniently, integrate the country's superior medical resources and forces more conveniently and smoothly, assist in the clear diagnosis of rare diseases and genetic diseases, and further improve the level of genetic counseling in Taizhou. Patients afflicted by rare diseases and their families send the gospel. In the next step, we will fully cooperate with the work of the Yangtze River Delta genetic counseling and diagnosis and treatment network, and the two sides will cooperate with each other, based on Taizhou and radiating the province, to substantially promote the development of genetic counseling and better benefit the majority of patients.
Professor Qin Shengying said that the establishment and launch of the Yangtze River Delta genetic counseling and diagnosis and treatment network adheres to the concept of a national game of chess. Through the integration of medical and disciplinary resources in the Yangtze River Delta region, we will try to create and realize a multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment model of genetic counseling. This successful model will not only serve the Yangtze River Delta region, but will be promoted to the whole country to jointly promote the development of genetic counseling. As the secretary-general of the Yangtze River Delta Genetic Counseling and Diagnosis and Treatment Network, he very much welcomes Taizhou Women and Children's Hospital affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University to join the Yangtze River Delta Genetic Counseling and Diagnosis and Treatment Network as a governing unit, which will provide new and powerful medical resources for genetic counseling and diagnosis and treatment in the Yangtze River Delta region, and will further promote the rapid improvement of the level of genetic counseling and diagnosis and treatment in the Yangtze River Delta, serve healthy China, and benefit the general public.
Sun Haiyu, director of the Department of Population, Family and Maternal and Child Health of the Taizhou Municipal Health Commission, said that with the implementation of the three-child policy and the improvement of personal health awareness, people's demand for medical services such as genetic diagnosis, genetic counseling, and genetic diseases** is increasing day by day. In the past few years, China's genetic counseling has developed rapidly. In particular, the Genetic Counseling Branch of the Chinese Genetics Society led by Academician He Lin and the establishment of the Yangtze River Delta Genetic Counseling and Diagnosis and Treatment Network have greatly alleviated the shortage of professional genetic staff in clinical practice and promoted the process of standardization, professionalization and regularization of the national genetic counseling industry. In 2023, Taizhou City issued the "Implementation Plan for the Comprehensive Prevention and Treatment of Birth Defects in Taizhou City", planning to establish and improve the screening, diagnosis and treatment, intervention, ** and assistance system covering the whole process of pregnancy, and further promote the construction of a "good education highland" city. Taizhou Women and Children's Hospital affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University undertakes the responsibility of clinical diagnosis and treatment of women and children in the city, and takes the high-quality development of the population as an important task.
Subsequently, the unveiling ceremony was held.
After the ceremony, Professor Qin Shengying gave a lecture online and offline for medical staff to popularize genetic knowledge, which was attended by relevant medical personnel from all over the city.
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