Director of the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine, wang guoqiang: the source of traditional Chinese medicine is at the grassroots level

People's Daily online March 03, 2018

PRC Beijing on March 3 (xinhua Li Nanhua) 3 in the afternoon, the Chinese people's political consultative conference at the end of the 13th session of the national committee for the first time, "minister channel" was held in the north hall of the great hall of the people. Guo-qiang wang, head of the national administration of traditional Chinese medicine, in an interview with reporters, the origin of traditional Chinese medicine at the grassroots level, the focus of the work of Chinese medicine in the basic unit, but short board, weakness of traditional Chinese medicine is at the grassroots level.

"I've been doing a lot of research at the grassroots level and a lot of people are pulling my hand and saying that bringing traditional Chinese medicine to the door is a very good service for us. These diseases, chronic diseases, including rehabilitation, if to large hospital treatment in line and lengthy tired and inconvenient, is able to get this treatment at home, real to be implemented at the grassroots level of traditional Chinese medicine." "More than 90 percent of township health centers and community health service centers in China are now able to provide TCM services," wang said. More than 80% of community service stations and more than 60% of village clinics can provide TCM services.

In the next step of the work focus, wang guoqiang introduced, specifically has three aspects. First, we will continue to expand the coverage of TCM. The first step is to strengthen the training of grassroots medical practitioners and encourage western medicine practitioners to learn traditional Chinese medicine. At present, we are implementing a million talents program to train more than 10,000 grassroots TCM cadres to strengthen talent development. The second is to establish a medical consortium to sink the quality resources of urban hospitals to the grass-roots level. There are many good doctors at the grass roots. Three is to earnestly implement the method of traditional Chinese medicine and the state council on strategic planning outline of the development of Chinese medicine, in particular, can make more qualified personnel to open clinic of traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine clinics, "Chinese medicine method" regulation, clinic of traditional Chinese medicine from the examination and approval system into records, which can make more practicing doctors at the clinic, Chinese medicine clinics, which makes for TCM service diversification, diversification, to meet the demand of the masses of the people.