Saturday, July 16, 2011

The Best Hospitals in Xi'an


Guanzhong Plain where Xi'an is located is basically a plain created by the floods which occurred due to the surrounding eight rivers. The city is elevated approximately 400 meters or 1,312 feet above the sea levels and precipitation is almost 550 mm or 22 inches on an annual basis.

Shannxi Province of Guanzhong Plain has a big A-Grade Level-3 hospital, which is called the People's Hospital and was built by the Government of Shannxi. The People's Hospital of Shannxi Province is the third hospital to get an affiliation from Shaanxi Institute for Clinical Medicine, Medical School of Jiaotong University and Institution of National Clinic Drug Trial. It has facilities for surgical and medical care, education, research of scientific nature and rehabilitation with preventive health care.

This hospital is based on Youyi West Road. It was established in 1931 by general Yang Hu-Cheng, a renowned general. It is spread over an area of 1 million sq. meters of land and has a floor area of 219,000 sq. meters. The hospital is facilitated with 61 medical and clinical detection departments. It also features seven centers for research and 1100 beds. This hospital is equipped with 1735 trained personnel, of which 82% are medically qualified and 524 superiorly trained.

The hospital is equipped with a lot of sophisticated medical equipments, including a 1.5T Dual MR Machine, a DR color Doppler, a linear accelerator, a 64-slice Computer Tomography, an X knife and an ultra-sonographic diagnosis system.

The medical departments are divided into two parts at the province level. However, departments like laboratory medicine, orthopedics, hepatobilliary surgery, emergency, neurology and hematology are the specialties of the Province. There are some other departments that include ENT and gastroenterology.

Xi'an Jiaotong University is one of the first recognized hospitals in northwest China. It was established in the year 1956 and is the biggest 3rd Level A- Grade hospital. This hospital consists of more than 300 expert professors, and has a capacity of 2000 beds with some big medical diagnostic machines installed such as gamma knife, a CT Scan, an MRI, a DSR, an X knife, a Double-photon accelerator, a Colored B Type, a flow cytometry, a fully automatic biochemical analyzer, a heart monitoring system, and much more. The additional features of the hospital include its technology for laparoscope and endoscope operations, blood purification, liver transplantation, interventional therapy and austerely omnipresent surgery. These facilities have helped in the accurate diagnosis and the treatment of patients. Xi'an Jiaotong University is one of the leading hospitals in not only the northwest part of China but in the entire country.

The entire northwestern China consists of only one children hospital, the Xi'an Children's hospital. It is the leading children's hospital and features surgical care, preventive health care, education, rehabilitation, and scientific research in not only Xi'an but in the entire Shaanxi Province. Yan'an hospital of the Communist Party of China Central Committee has been converted into Xi'an Children's Hospital which was established in the year 1939. However the present children hospital has also undergone many reforms and changes since its establishment on 1st September 1959 with the prior permission of the Government of the Province of Shaanxi. The Ministry of Health upgraded the hospital to a 3rd Level A-Grade hospital in the year 1997 and gave it the honorable title of a Municipal Model Unit.

The total land area of the hospital is approximately 110.7 Mu (where 1 Mu is equal to 1/6 acres). Out of the total land area, 87.86 Mu is only available for medical services purpose. In the hospital there are 9 OPD's (Out Patient Departments), 16 Clinical Departments and 10 departments for medical inspection. The total bed capacity of the hospital is 800 although, only 562 beds remain available. The total numbers of OPD patients treated till now were 450,000 with approximately 20,000 inpatients.




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