Cctv newsOn July 14th, the National Health and Wellness Commission held a press conference. Nie Chunlei, director of the Grass-roots Department of the National Health and Wellness Commission, introduced at the meeting that in recent years, in order to adapt to economic and social development and meet the growing health needs of the people, the National Health and Wellness Commission has taken improving the ability of primary medical services as the most basic and fundamental important work, taking multiple measures to keep patients at the grassroots level.

　　First, the service capacity standards of township hospitals and community health service centers were introduced to guide local self-evaluation, self-construction, rectification and upgrading. By the end of 2021, a total of 23,000 grass-roots organizations have reached the basic standards and recommended standards of service capacity.

　　The second is to build community hospitals based on community health service centers and township hospitals, and introduce the basic standards of community hospitals and the key points of medical quality and safety core system. By the end of 2021, more than 2,600 community hospitals have been built.

　　Third, various means have been used to expand the ranks of grassroots health personnel and recruit more than 70,000 rural order-oriented free medical students, of whom 35,000 have already served at the grassroots level. Completed more than 230,000 job transfer trainings for general practitioners. The qualification examination for assistant doctors in rural general practice was added, and 154,000 people obtained the corresponding qualifications. We implemented a project to improve the capacity of primary health personnel and trained 590,000 primary health personnel of all kinds. In the past two years, medical college students have been registered as rural doctors without examination, and more than 4,300 college students have joined the team of rural doctors.

　　The fourth is to promote the construction of county medical community, highlight the orientation of "strengthening the county territory and strengthening the grassroots", and identify 3 pilot provinces in Shanxi, Zhejiang and Xinjiang and 551 pilot counties in other provinces. The monitoring data shows that the effect of medical service sinking in the county is constantly emerging.

　　Fifth, speed up information construction, empower primary health care services, initially establish a national primary health care integrated management platform, and have achieved network connectivity and data transmission with 23 provinces. By the end of 2021, telemedicine has covered all poor counties and extended to rural areas. Through the above measures, the ability of preventing and treating diseases and health management at the grassroots level has been steadily improved, and more patients have been kept at the grassroots level.