On October 15, 2018, PUMCH held a meeting summing up its achievements in three years’ “Group-Aid” to Tibet and commenting the ten members of the third team. President Zhao Yupei and Party Secretary Jiang Yuxin presented to the medical workers the award of “Special Contribution of Medical Group Aid to Tibet”.

Since 2015, the hospital has been taking the lead and sent 38 medical workers in four batches to Tibet. They overcame altitude sickness and other local difficulties and, based on the actual conditions of Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital, did tremendous pioneering work in clinical medicine, teaching, research, management and nursing.

The third batch team consisted of ten young and middle-aged medical workers from nine departments. Since entering Tibet in July 2017, they performed 9,263 operations, gave 332 emergency rescues, had 1,923 discussions of difficult cases, carried out 1,619 consultations in and out of the hospital, had 1,055 ward rounds for teaching, trainings and surgery demonstrations. They also improved 68 medical procedures, had 96 quality controls, formulated 33 department development plans, applied for 13 research projects, held 20 academic conferences, applied 54 new techniques and selected 32 medical workers for further study and training in PUMCH. The results also included the implementation of 218 managerial and medical rules at hospital and department levels, and the construction of 18 information platforms.

Based on local conditions, the medical team also introduced to the Tibet hospital “PUMCH standards” and “PUMCH experiences”. Based on PUMCH’s modern hospital management, it helped formulate the Bylaws of Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital, and improved the hospital’s decision making mechanism and democratic management system; a State Clinical Pharmacist Training Base was established in the Tibet hospital; the first standardized anesthesia and pain clinic opened in Tibet; Tibetan Anesthesia and Operation Room Quality Control Center and Tibetan Center of Continuous Improvement of Nursing Quality also settled in the hospital.

PUMCH has been making hospital-wide efforts to help build the Tibetan hospital, including building standardized wards and distance learning platforms, promoting critical values reporting system and going down into grassroots institutions for research and medical consultations. It aims at helping the Tibetan hospital to stand on its own and drive up medical care across the whole autonomous region.

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Hospital leaders present awards to staff in group aid to Tibet

A group photo of hospital leaders with medical workers

The third team of medical workers in Tibet