Sending healthcare workers to aid Xinjiang is an important measure of the CPC Central Committee to promote development of Xinjiang and care for people of all ethnicities in Xinjiang. In earnest response to that, PUMCH has long held on to the mission of aiding Xinjiang. Recently on February 6, 2023, it held a ceremony to send off the third Xinjiang-aiding team of the tenth batch. At the ceremony, Vice President Du Bin put forward earnest expectations and specific requirements for the team. The third Xinjiang-aiding team, directors of departments involved, heads of related administrative departments and offices, and representatives of the last team attended the ceremony.
▲Group picture at the send-off
Since 2002, PUMCH has accumulatively sent 82 personnel in 26 batches from 15 departments such as the Department of Rheumatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics Surgery and Ophthalmology to aid Xinjiang. The Xinjiang-aiding experts played an exemplary role as backbone talents and projected a positive image in aid-receiving hospitals, winning recognition and praise from both the aid-receiving hospitals and local residents. The Tibet-aiding and Xinjiang-aiding teams of PUMCH were granted the honor of “Good Doctors and Good Nurses in China” by the Office of Spiritual Civilization Development Steering Commission of the CPC Central Committee and the National Health Commission.
▲On February 7, the third Xinjiang-aiding team of PUMCH in the tenth batch left Beijing for Xinjiang
The five experts dispatched this time are all backbone talents in their prime with integrity, comprehensive mastery of technologies and outstanding expertise. They will work in Xinjiang for a year.
Since 2018, the PUMCH experts aiding Xinjiang have helped local hospitals apply new technologies in over 30 projects, filling in multiple technological blanks. For example, they helped local hospitals with the first 5G remote fundus laser treatment in Xinjiang, the first application in Xinjiang of the minimally invasive unilateral biportal endoscopic (UBE) technique for the decompression and removal of an intraspinal mass of the thoracic vertebra, pancreaticoduodenectomy and other difficult surgeries; the experts have also promoted new therapies such as plasmapheresis and immunoadsorption. The list goes on.
▲Experts aiding Xinjiang 2018-2019, sequentially Liu Wei, Li Qiyi, Zhang Zhiqiao, Wu Qingjun and Ren Chang
Since 2018, the experts provided local medical talents with trainings that recorded over 8,000 attendances and offered 30 mentor-apprentice sessions, with the aim of cultivating competent local talents that would stay there. Thanks to the training and assistance, some key specialties have achieved remarkable progresses and the aid-receiving hospitals have significantly improved their medical services across the board.
▲Experts aiding Xinjiang 2019-2020, sequentially Tong Jiali, Xu Dong, Hong Tao, He Feng and Deng Kan
▲Experts aiding Xinjiang 2020-2021, sequentially Wang Wei, Liu Tao, Yu Weihong, Su Jinmei and Lou Weizhen
The experts also engaged themselves in various kinds of gratuitous medical services along the border, for example, in border villages, border protection sentries, ports of entry and border checkpoints. Since 2018, they have received thousands of patients face to face in over 80 sessions of voluntary services.
▲Experts aiding Xinjiang 2021-2022, sequentially Yu Keyi, Zhang Hong, Xie Yi, Li Yan and Li Jing
In its endeavor to bring quality medical resources to lower-tiered communities, PUMCH will continue to help Xinjiang improve its medical technologies, cultivate talents in a more systemic and targeted manner, and enhance hospital management systems. In a nutshell, PUMCH provides solid support for the betterment of healthcare in Xinjiang.
Written by Fu Tanpin and Li Siru
Picture courtesy of Sun Liang, the Department of Human Resources and Xinjiang-aiding team members
Translated by Liu Haiyan
Edited by Wang Yao