According to the website of the National Health Commission, the National Health Commission released the "Statistical Bulletin on the Development of my country's Health Careers in 2019". The "Communique" shows that the average life expectancy of residents has increased from 77.0 years of 2018 years to 77.3 years of 2019 years. The total amount of medical and health resources has gradually increased, and the composition of the health workforce has been further optimized. The "Communique" shows that at the end of 2019, the total number of medical and health institutions nationwide reached 1007545.
Compared with the previous year, the number of hospitals increased by 1345, and the number of primary medical and health institutions increased by 10751. There are 8.807 million beds in medical and health institutions nationwide. Among hospitals, public hospital beds account for 72.5% and private hospital beds account for 27.5%. The number of beds in medical and health institutions per 1,000 population increased from 6.03 in 2018 to 6.30 in 2019. The "Communique" pointed out that at the end of 2009, the total number of health personnel nationwide reached 12.928 million, an increase of 628,000 over the previous year, an increase of 5.0%.
Improve primary health care institutions
1. Increase hardware investment, including infrastructure and equipment purchase subsidies arranged by the National Development and Reform Commission and finance.
2. Increase software support. There are ten measures to increase team building and talent training in grassroots medical and health institutions. For example, we recruit medical staff to work at the grassroots level, organize counterpart support, encourage college students to go to the grassroots level for further studies, let them transfer to other positions for training, and recruit medical students on a targeted basis.
3. As public investment in health and medical security increases, the ability to pay increases, and grassroots medical and health institutions receive more compensation for their high-quality services. Their pressure is reduced, and so is the pressure on county-level finances to make up for the shortfall.
4. Measures have been taken to improve the treatment of grassroots medical staff. National policy stipulates that the salary and treatment of grassroots medical staff should be consistent with the average income level of local public institutions. The finance department also allocates some money every year to provide subsidies, etc. We have also taken many measures in terms of software construction, which is for medical and health institutions and personnel.