As the only specialized medical unit for maternal and child health care in Pudong, Pudong Maternal and Child Health Hospital has been around for fifty years. Its predecessor was the Chuansha Maternity and Child Care Center, which was established in 1954, and the hospital was built on the basis of the Center in 1984. Because the hospital is located in Pudong, Chuansha area, in the geographic location, service population distribution, medical housing conditions and even the introduction of talent, science, education and research are at a considerable disadvantage, seriously hampering the development of the hospital's business pioneers.
With the development and opening up of Pudong in full swing, the Maternal and Child Health Hospital was already lagging far behind the overall level of Pudong's reform and opening up, and was far from being able to meet the health care needs of the majority of women and children in the new area. Over the past ten years, the hospital has been self-financed expansion and reconstruction of outpatient and ward facilities, ward building floors again and again, from the second floor in 1984 to three floors in 1988, and finally to four floors in 1993, but also in the balcony of the wards; 2000 and the hospital's guards were reconstructed. Their own efforts have only eased the temporary pressure on access to health care, but to solve the problem at its root, they need the support and help of higher-ups.
In June 2000, Pudong Maternal and Child Health Hospital submitted an application for relocation to the higher authorities. After repeated surveys and arguments, the district government located the hospital's new site in the hinterland of the Pudong New Area - the Jinqiao Biyun International Community. The construction of the project took one year, with a total investment of about 94 million yuan, and on March 8, 2003, it was officially put into operation.
Decades have passed. Today's Maternal and Child Health Hospital has developed from an outdated and poorly-equipped MCH located in the urban and rural areas on the edge of the new district, with a shortage of high-level talents and a single level of technology, into a MCH located in the hinterland of Pudong New District, with first-class equipment and facilities and considerable high-level talents to carry out a full range of multi-functional health care technology services.
In recent years, with the introduction of talents and the continuous improvement of service quality, the business of Pudong Maternal and Child Health Hospital has been growing steadily, and the number of deliveries has reached more than 10,000 per year, which ranked the first in Shanghai for several consecutive years, while the maternal mortality rate and perinatal mortality rate are far lower than the average level of the city.