The equipment is all old, and there is a serious lack of medical equipment. Doctors see patients based on past experience and rarely use testing equipment, and some primary care providers who have simple equipment will not use it. Depending on the condition, it is risky to try treatment with medication.
China's primary health care institutions figure to be huge, with 920,000, township and village health centers, community health service centers, service stations, individual clinics and so on.
The township health centers may have testing equipment, and the communities and clinics below the township health centers have very little testing equipment and a single profit model. With the introduction of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment policy, more and more patients at the grassroots level, the grassroots also want to get more patients, but also an urgent need to help improve the level of diagnosis and treatment, so POCT came into being, very suitable for the grassroots.