Hebei Provincial Eye Hospital was founded in 1904, formerly a church-founded eye clinic. At the beginning of the country, it belonged to one of the four major eye hospitals in the country.
As early as 1932, it was the first to carry out cataract surgery in China, and in 1954, the province's first corneal transplantation was successfully carried out at the hospital.
Over the past hundred years, Party and state leaders Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian, Liu Bocheng and Xu Xiangqian have come to the hospital for inspection, guidance and treatment of eye diseases. Since the founding of the country, especially in the 20 years of reform and opening up, Xingtai Eye Hospital has been boldly reforming and innovating, so that the ancient eye specialty hospital has maintained its leading position in the country. Now, the hospital covers an area of more than 80 acres, with a building area of more than 30,000 square meters and 410 regular beds, including 350 in ophthalmology, 40 in otolaryngology and 20 in stomatology. The annual outpatient clinic 210,000 times, hospitalized in 10,000 times, more than 9,000 cases of surgery, (cataract implantation of artificial lenses up to more than 1,500 cases a year) the cure rate of more than 95%, the patients come from Hebei and Jin, Henan, Lu, Eu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Beijing, Tianjin, Mongolia, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and other provinces, cities, and districts.
After several generations of hard work, Xingtai Eye Hospital has become the eye disease treatment center of Hebei Province, the cataract rehabilitation guidance center of Hebei Province and the low vision rehabilitation guidance center of Hebei Province, the Eye Research Institute of Hebei Province, and the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Hebei Province. It was named "National Advanced Unit of Three Rehabilitation Work" by ten national ministries and commissions including Ministry of Health, Ministry of Civil Affairs and China Disabled Persons' Federation, and was regarded as an advanced collective and a three-level civilized service unit.
The hospital has set up an expert outpatient clinic in order to give full play to the advantages of medical technology. Clinical with ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, stomatology three major departments, 10 wards 16 professional disease groups. In the ultrasonic emulsification IOL implantation treatment of cataract, laser and Chinese and Western medicine combined treatment of fundus disease, retinal detachment, vitrectomy, orbital disease, glaucoma, pediatric strabismus and amblyopia, corneal transplantation, traumatic injuries, and intraocular foreign body removal, fundus angiography and ophthalmic plastic surgery and other fields are at the domestic advanced level.
The hospital has 647 employees, including 60 senior technical titles. And there are "Chinese Journal of Fundus Disease", "Chinese Medical Aesthetics Plastic", "China Chinese Medicine Ophthalmology Series" editorial board, the Chinese Medical Association, Ophthalmic Laser Group, China Ophthalmic Ultrasound Medical Association, Hebei Provincial Medical Branch, the provincial ultrasound medical association, the provincial association of young inventors, the executive director and the various professional committees, standing and vice chairman of the committee, and so on 11 people. The hospital has domestic first-class and world-advanced medical equipments. 589 papers have been published in the hospital since 1990, including 498 papers at national level and 91 papers combining Chinese and western medicine. The classification method of primary glaucoma with "Xia's Classification" is included in the "Ophthalmology Dictionary", "Application of Cooling Blood and Dispersing Blood Stasis Soup in Stasis-Heat Fundus Hemorrhagic Disease" is included in the "Yearbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine" of the Ministry of Health and eleven kinds of ophthalmic diseases are reported for the first time in the domestic literature.
As early as in the 1950s the country had twice held technical innovation site meetings in Xingtai Eye Hospital. Since then the hospital has attended or held various national and provincial medical and health conferences. Since the fifties and sixties, in order to widely carry out academic exchanges and further improve its technical level, the hospital has invited famous experts and professors from home and abroad to give lectures, surgical demonstrations, academic exchanges and guidance. 1998, the director of the training center of the medical school of the Tel Aviv University in Israel, the famous ophthalmology expert Isakov and his entourage came to the hospital to visit the hospital and carry out academic exchanges, and reached a long-term academic exchanges. In 1998, the director of the training center of Tel Aviv University in Israel, Mr. Isakov, a famous ophthalmologist, visited the hospital and made academic exchanges, and reached a long-term academic exchange agreement. At the same time, 86 people have been sent to Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hunan, Xi'an, Northeast and other large specialized hospitals for further study and extensive academic exchanges.
All the staff of Xingtai Eye Hospital, led by the presidents and the hospital leadership team full of pioneering spirit, adhere to the principle of "all patient-centered, wholeheartedly for the patients", will continue to make new contributions and achieve better results in the climb to the peak of medical science.