As an important carrier of primary medical services, how to seek breakthroughs in resource shortage, brain drain and other problems to achieve the sustainable development of rural medical care has become an urgent problem to be solved.
This paper will focus on the current situation of rural medical care, the challenges faced by township health centers, and the development opportunities, in order to provide some useful thoughts for the development of rural medical services.
The current situation of rural medical care
With the continuous improvement of the country's attention to medical and health undertakings, the medical conditions in rural areas have been significantly improved.
However, due to the influence of regional, economic, demographic and other factors, there are still many problems in rural medical care.
For example, medical services are unbalanced, there is a lack of good doctors, and then there are good medical technologies, including drugs, medical equipment and other problems.
There is a shortage of resources in township health centers
In terms of infrastructure construction, township health centers have been greatly improved in recent years, many hospitals have been renovated, houses have become beautiful, and cultural publicity is also very good.
In terms of medical equipment, some applicability is lacking, and some equipment distributed free of charge is not used due to the lack of doctors.
In terms of drugs, because they are all centralized procurement varieties, they may not be able to satisfy every patient, and even because the payment is not timely, the first merchants are not willing to deliver, which in turn causes a shortage of drugs.
As a result, township health centers have limited capacity to respond to disease outbreaks and manage chronic diseases, making it difficult to meet the growing medical needs of farmers.
Disparities in health care
The regionality, seasonality, and timeliness of rural medical services lead to unbalanced medical services.
Hospitals far away from urban areas may be quite a bit at ordinary times, after all, the elderly are now the main people in rural areas, and it is really inconvenient for them to go to the city to see a doctor.
Many township health centers usually have a lot of people, but when it comes to the busy farming season, it becomes very few.
Of course, there is a large gap between urban and rural areas, developed areas and underdeveloped areas in the allocation of medical resources, and the problem of difficult and expensive medical treatment for patients is still prominent.
Brain drain and training needs
In this era, in the face of the pressure of life, the rural doctors and the first team are unstable, and the brain drain is serious.
On the one hand, the rural medical environment is relatively poor, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines, mainly because the number of patients cannot support the construction of related specialties, and it is difficult to attract excellent medical talents for the long-term development here.
On the other hand, the lack of systematic training of existing talents, the lack of patients in townships and towns, and the lack of opportunities to practice their hands, even if the technology learned in the higher-level hospital is not necessarily useful, it also affects the quality of medical services to a certain extent.
It is difficult to update and maintain technical equipment
Township health centers have difficulties in updating and maintaining technical equipment.
The equipment is aging and the function is backward, and it is difficult to meet the clinical needs, and many of the equipment in the township hospital was many years ago, and may have been usable at the beginning, but now it is parked there.
At the same time, there is a lack of professionals to maintain the equipment, resulting in a shortened service life of the equipment.
Opportunities for rural healthcare development
In the context of the new era, the development of rural medical care is facing unprecedented opportunities.
The state has increased investment in rural medical services, promoted the sinking of medical resources, and improved the capacity of primary medical services.
In addition, with the development of technologies such as the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence, smart healthcare will bring more development opportunities to rural healthcare.
In this era when everyone is eager to succeed, there must be few people who climb to the top, success is difficult, failure is not easy, although we can not control the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the direction of the sail, just to reach the other side of victory.
This article**: Sichuan Hua Jinyu.
Author: Sichuan Hua Jinyu.
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