In recent years, the hospital has adhered to the principles of scientific management and technology to develop medical treatment, and actively promoted the construction of high-quality hospitals, and successively formed specialties such as respiratory internal medicine, urology, critical care, thoracic surgery, hematology and oncology, pediatric hematology, traditional Chinese medicine respiratory medicine, cardiology, baldness treatment, and hepatology. The Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases (GIRD), which is located in the hospital, is at the national leading level in the research and clinical diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases, such as bronchial asthma, COPD, lung cancer, etc. The first lung transplant in South China was successfully completed in 2003, and five lung transplants have been successfully carried out so far, with the number and quality of surgeries at the leading level in the country. "Yingdong Guangzhou Intensive Care Center is the most modern ICU in South China, and its level of intensive care medicine is leading in China. Endoscopic Surgery is famous both at home and abroad, endoscopic technology has been widely used in urology, general surgery, thoracic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology and other specialties, the number of surgical cases, the success rate of treating complex and difficult diseases, and fewer complications, are at the leading level in China.
The Oncology and Blood Center is another brand discipline that the hospital is vigorously building. The center has invested more than 50 million dollars to introduce a full set of the world's top oncology diagnostic and treatment equipments such as PET/CT, MRI, linear accelerator, cyclotron, etc., which are capable of completing the world's most advanced biomedical intensity-modulated radiation therapy. The center adopts a flexible mechanism to integrate a variety of high-tech therapeutic means for the comprehensive treatment of tumors to improve the cure rate and quality of life of patients.
The hospital has also made remarkable achievements in teaching, scientific research and discipline construction, cultivated the first academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Guangdong Province health care sector, created the first doctoral degree-granting point of universities in Guangzhou City, has 10 master's degree enrollment points, and undertakes the teaching tasks of undergraduates, master's degree graduates and doctoral degree graduates at multiple levels; there are one national key discipline, five provincial key disciplines and one provincial key laboratory; it undertakes the fifteen national key disciplines, five provincial key disciplines and one provincial key laboratory. There are 1 national key disciplines, 5 provincial key disciplines and 1 provincial key laboratory; it has undertaken many high-level major scientific research projects, such as 15 national key research projects, 863 key projects and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.