Hospital refers to a medical institution that provides patients with necessary medical examination, treatment measures, nursing technology, consulting services, rehabilitation equipment, rescue and transportation services in accordance with laws, regulations and industry norms, with the main purpose of saving lives. Its service targets include not only symptomatic patients and the wounded.
It also includes elderly people who can't take care of themselves or have limited activities and rely on medical care, seriously injured people who are assessed by forensic doctors as dependent on medical care or unstable and need long-term rehabilitation and regular observation and inspection, or other specific situations and groups, such as healthy people (such as pregnant women, parturients and newborns) and completely healthy people (such as people who come to the hospital for physical examination or oral cleaning).
Originally set up for people to take refuge, there are entertainment programs to make them comfortable and entertaining. Later, it gradually became a specialized institution for receiving and treating patients.