Shantou Central Hospital is an innovative and powerful hospital. The hospital has a large number of historical records of filling the technical gaps in the region, such as carrying out thoracic tumor resection in 1958; discovering the first case of leptospirosis in the region in 1959; discovering the first case of Scrub typhus in the region in 1960; carrying out closed mitral valve dilatation and hepatectomy for rheumatic heart disease in 1961; and carrying out cardiotomy for congenital pulmonary valve stenosis with direct visualization under cryoanesthesia in 1963; In 1969, it carried out radiation therapy for tumors; in 1975, it performed brain tumor resection; in 1981, it carried out mitral valve replacement; in 1982, it carried out artificial joint replacement; and in 1983, it installed buried artificial pacemakers for patients ....... In recent years, the hospital has achieved outstanding results in specialty construction, with the technical level of cardiothoracic surgery, orthopedics, cardiovascular internal medicine, general surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, infectious disease (infectious diseases), neurology, gastroenterology, pediatrics and other specialties ranking among the leading or advanced in the city. The ICU ward with 10 beds and the blood purification center with 16 hemodialysis machines rank first in the eastern part of Guangdong in terms of scale and advanced equipment. A number of high-tech projects, such as congenital heart correction surgery for low-birth-weight infants, emergency PTCA and stenting for acute heart attack, various anterior and posterior spinal surgeries, pancreaticoduodenectomy, resection of brainstem tumors, resection of intraspinal tumors, ultrasonic emulsification and aspiration of cataract with foldable IOL implantation, various cavity-scope techniques (laparoscopy, thoracoscopy, hysteroscopy, arthroscopy, etc.), and reimplantation of severed fingers, etc., have achieved the advanced level of the province; central nervous system oncological surgery, and central neural system oncology surgery has reached the first place in Guangdong East. The surgical diagnosis and treatment of central nervous system tumors and renal transplantation technology have passed the access assessment of the Provincial Medical Association.
In recent years, the hospital has been awarded 3 prizes for scientific and technological progress in Guangdong Province and 22 prizes for scientific and technological progress in Shantou City; it has been awarded more than 127 projects of Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province and provincial and municipal scientific research projects; it has published more than 200 papers in the core journals of biomedical sciences; it has recruited and cultivated 13 postgraduates of doctoral and master's degree programs; and it has accepted and cultivated 959 trainees from Sun Yat-sen University and other colleges and universities, as well as 408 trainees from the basic-level hospitals.
The hospital adheres to the spirit of "quality, innovation, unity and dedication", pursues the concept of "people-oriented, patient first", continuously strengthens scientific management, improves the quality of medical care, provides safe services, controls medical charges, and receives good comments from all walks of life and high trust from patients. It has been well received by the community and highly trusted by patients. The annual outpatient emergency treatment volume of more than 630,000, admitted 33,000 hospitalized patients, performed more than 10,000 large and medium-sized surgeries.