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Grassroots medical and health institutions mainly provide basic public health services and basic medical services for residents in the radiation areas served by the institutions. By the end of 2022, there were1033,000 medical and health institutions nationwide.
Clarify the functional orientation of primary medical and health institutions. Grassroots medical and health institutions mainly provide basic public health services and basic medical services, and their diagnosis and treatment subjects, beds, department settings, staffing, infrastructure construction and equipment should be adapted to their functional orientation.
Township hospitals are comprehensive health management and medical prevention institutions established in counties or townships. Their tasks are to be responsible for medical and health work in their own areas, organize and lead mass health campaigns, train health technicians, and provide operational guidance and consultation to primary medical and health institutions.
Township hospitals are an important link in rural tertiary medical outlets, shouldering the important tasks of medical epidemic prevention and health care, and are an important barrier to directly solve the problems of difficult and expensive medical treatment in rural areas.
The functional orientation of township hospitals makes them occupy the core position in the rural three-level prevention and health care network, which is linked with county-level health institutions and village clinics to form an effective rural three-level prevention and health care network. Together with cooperative medical care and barefoot doctors, it is called the three magic weapons of rural medical and health services in China by the World Health Organization.
Its experience provides beneficial enlightenment and influence for the strategic measures of "realizing health care for all by the year 2000" in the Almaty Declaration of the World Health Organization 1978.
As the center of the "three-level prevention and health care network" in rural areas, township hospitals have been responsible for the prevention and health care, basic medical services and rural public health management of billions of farmers since its birth. Health centers have played an important role in controlling infectious diseases, improving the quality of farmers' health services and ensuring farmers' health.
In July, 20021year, the Ministry of Planning, Development and Information Technology issued the Statistical Bulletin on Health Development in China in 2020. Among the primary medical and health institutions, there are 35,762 township hospitals.