Zhaotong Second People's Hospital was founded in 1977, formerly known as the Zhaotong County People's Hospital, the hospital with the development of Zhaotong, has been renamed as Zhaotong People's Hospital, Zhaotong Second People's Hospital, through the successive leadership and staff of the **** with the efforts, has now developed into a set of medical care, teaching, scientific research, prevention and health care as one of the integrated comprehensive hospitals, is the district's medical technology guidance center, emergency center, is a teaching internship base of Zhaotong Health School. The hospital is a medical technology guidance center in the region, first aid center, Zhaotong health school teaching practice base, responsible for the region's 780,000 people and Ludian, Daguan, Weining and other adjoining counties, part of the patient diagnosis and treatment and rescue of difficult and critical patients.