The PLA 42nd Hospital (Air Force Chengdu Hospital) is an old hospital with a long history of more than 60 years. As early as before the liberation is the former Kuomintang Air Force Chengdu Hospital, although full of war and turmoil, but the spirit of saving lives has been inherited, and with the liberation of the Great Southwest, socialist modernization and construction and modern new military changes, and continue to grow into the People's Liberation Army in the Southwest region of China, an important and outstanding contribution to the local construction of the military center hospital. The hospital is a designated medical institution for provincial and municipal basic medical insurance, and is a comprehensive Grade 3A hospital integrating prevention, medical treatment, teaching and scientific research. Each year, the hospital outpatient volume of more than 200,000 people, hospitalized patients more than 10,000 times.
The establishment of a whole-body gamma knife research and treatment center, anal and intestinal center, blood purification center, beauty center. There are two Air Force Key Specialty Centers: Repair and Reconstruction Surgery Center and Chinese and Western Medicine Oncology. The total value of medical equipment is more than 100 million yuan. It carries out heart valvuloplasty, valve replacement for wind heart disease, stenting and bypass surgery for coronary heart disease, kidney transplantation, plasmapheresis, gamma knife treatment of tumor, combined traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment of tumors, anal and intestinal surgery, and various interventional therapies and other technologies which are famous in the southwest and even in the country. There is a key specialty in Sichuan Province: Anal and Intestinal Center. The medical equipment is complete. Set up independent anal and intestinal surgery room, computerized comprehensive treatment instrument room. Combined with the traditional advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, it has formed a system of diagnosis and treatment methods for anal and intestinal diseases with good efficacy, little pain and short time. It has been recognized as a teaching hospital by the Third and Fourth Military Medical University, Sichuan North Medical College, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and West China University of Medical Sciences Basic College.