Beijing Ditan Hospital is the research center for the prevention and treatment of viral infectious diseases in Beijing, and the Beijing AIDS Clinical Research Center is located in the hospital. It is a clinical teaching hospital of Peking University Medical Department and a training center for master's degree, and also undertakes the task of infectious disease doctors and nurses from all over the country to come to the hospital for further study. It is the "National Drug Clinical Research Base" for viral hepatitis and AIDS, and became a hospital established by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (former Chinese Academy of Preventive Medical Sciences) and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Health in 1998, with the current President Mao Yu, Secretary of the Party Committee Teng Xiuqin, Vice-Presidents Xiang Xiaopei, Guo Lizhu and Cheng Jun, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee Gao Mingxiu. Gao Mingxiu, deputy secretary of the party committee.
The hospital mainly admits and treats 35 kinds of statutory infectious diseases except tuberculosis, and is also a specialized hospital for treating various liver diseases. Our hospital has rich experience in treating acute and chronic hepatitis A, B, C, D and E of all types, and is a national leader in the treatment of severe hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, cirrhotic ascites and hepatorenal syndrome and other severe liver diseases. The hospital is a nationally designated research base for new drugs for liver diseases and participates in the research and validation of various domestic and international new drugs for the treatment of hepatitis B and C. Therefore, the hospital has rich experience in antiviral treatment of hepatitis B and C, and is in possession of newer information on newer therapeutic methods. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology undertakes gynecology, obstetric delivery, family planning and obstetric and gynecological surgeries for patients with infectious diseases, and is especially experienced and skilled in the blocking of mother-to-child transmission of newborn babies of mothers with Hepatitis B and AIDS. The hospital ICU centralized monitoring system and bed unit video surveillance system provide all-around real-time monitoring and rescue for critically ill patients with infectious diseases, and can apply four kinds of artificial liver support therapies to provide effective supportive treatments for patients with severe hepatitis, acute liver failure and combined multi-organ functional insufficiency. The hospital not only utilizes medical imaging technology to make diagnosis of early-stage liver cancer, but also forms a series of treatments such as surgery, interventional therapy, anhydrous alcohol injection, radiofrequency ablation, and thermal iodine oil embolization for early, intermediate, and late-stage liver cancer. Utilizing the advantages of decades of research in liver disease, the treatment of liver cancer plays the role of liver preservation and liver protection at the same time. Through gastric coronary vein embolization, gastro-renal shunt vein embolization, and intrahepatic portal-cavity shunt, the Department of Interventional Medicine effectively solves the difficult problems of patients with cirrhosis, portal hypertension, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and intractable ascites.
In addition to treating various types of hepatitis, our hospital has accumulated rich experience in treating infectious diseases such as epidemic hemorrhagic fever, venereal disease, AIDS, typhoid fever, rheumatoid brain, and meningitis B. We are the designated hospital in Beijing for the admission and treatment of various infectious diseases. The Infectious Disease Center of the hospital treats patients with various acute infectious diseases every year, and participates in the admission and rescue work of major emergencies of infectious diseases for many times, making outstanding contributions to the control of infectious disease epidemics in Beijing.In the spring and summer of 2003, the hospital undertook the important task of treating patients with infectious atypical pneumonia, and more than 300 patients with atypical pneumonia, among whom were compatriots from Hong Kong and Taiwan, foreign guests, senior cadres and celebrities, and more than half of whom were critically ill, ranging in age from 5 years old to 5 years old. More than half of the 300 SARS patients included Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots, foreign guests, senior cadres and celebrities, among which the critically ill patients accounted for more than half of them, ranging in age from 5-month-old babies to 88-year-old people. The rescue work was highly evaluated by the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health. The hospital has won many honors such as National May 1st Labor Certificate, National "38" Red Flag Collective, National Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization, National Advanced Collective of Health System, etc. In the spring of 2004, the hospital once again accepted the task of SARS rescue and treatment. In the spring of 2004, the hospital was again tasked with SARS treatment, and accomplished the goal of "improving the cure rate, ensuring no infection among medical staff, and ensuring no infection among other hospitalized patients" put forward by the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. In the spring of 2004, the hospital once again completed the task of SARS treatment in Beijing, so that all patients were discharged from the hospital, and was praised by the higher authorities.
The hospital attaches importance to the treatment and care of AIDS patients. in 1999, the hospital took the lead in applying the highly effective antiretroviral combination therapy (cocktail therapy) to the treatment of AIDS in line with the world, and achieved very good results. in January 1999, the "Red Ribbon House" was set up, which provided treatment for AIDS patients, The Red Ribbon House was established in January 1999 to provide treatment, care, psychological help, behavioral intervention and legal assistance to AIDS patients. The Department of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases has a medical team of old, middle-aged and young intellectuals, and a number of people have conducted relevant business training abroad. The department provides patients with quality medical treatment, nursing care, counseling and other one-stop services.
The hospital is equipped with advanced equipment of domestic infectious disease hospitals. The Virus Research Laboratory carries out a series of studies in the areas of hepatitis virus quantification, genetic variation, HIV antibody and viral load, T, NK/B cell subsets and cytokine (flow assay) testing. As one of the largest infectious disease hospitals in China, it attaches great importance to the development of scientific research. It had been listed as one of the main members of the collaboration network of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Five-Year Plan research projects on chronic hepatitis by the National Science and Technology Commission. Great progress has been made in both basic research and clinical research. In particular, a number of achievements have been made in the research of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, AIDS and other diseases. It undertakes the research projects of the key disciplines of AIDS and liver disease of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Health, as well as the research tasks of the fifteen national AIDS research projects.