"Hong Kong medical shortage" for our alarming

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     In Hong Kong, the medical system, public hospital has important position. At present, it is facing "nurse shortage" challenge. A few days ago, Hong Kong nurses association announced report, a senior nurse left a public hospital is serious. This kind of phenomenon, led directly to the nurses not leaving busy, pressure big, affect health care quality, even a threat to the safety of patients. (on May 3 "People's Daily") is not only the nurse drought and, possibly, the doctor shortage. Recently, the local many media also warning that authorities, focus on the doctor churn high, resulting in public understaffed hospitals problem. Why is there such a "shortage"? Locally, mainly because private hospital or clinic open perks, poach a lot of medical elite. With public hospital, nature is understaffed, finally cause not multiply, then leave personnel pressure became a kind of vicious circle. Working pressure, make more and more people choose to quit, or can't walk in.

     Here the drought, actually is not absolute, but the number of relative shortage, inadequate number of qualified medical staff relatively inadequate. It is the result of medical services, though still provide, but service quality, but have discounted for the decline. To nurse, for example, according to reports, in the first quarter of this year, Hong Kong public hospital nurse to take care of each work days 12 ~ 16 patients, shift the nurse looking after 22 ~ 24 patients. International standard is 4 ~ 6 people, the Hong Kong public hospital nurse patient, has exceeded the international standard than several times. Take it of specialized subject doctor if the quantity is little, patients, in order to see the doctor, have probably will spend a lot of time cost to waiting for medical attention.

     In mainland China, have so similar "medical shortage"? The answer may be certain. In the present many secondary and tertiary hospitals, our nurse actually is facing the same even more heavy workload and stress. A nurse take care of more than 20 patients, already belongs to a "normal" phenomenon. And in some public hospitals to nurse shorthanded serious to have affected the whole hospital normal operation and service quality.

    A specialist? I'm afraid is in quietly "shortage", the way most waste and pediatrician. Recently, the Chinese medical doctor association pediatricians branch of the ZhuZongHan pointed out, our pediatrician in 15 years increased only 5,000, more than 20 million pediatrician gap. But a depressing fact is that in the past 15 years, the national pediatrician only increased 5,000. Pediatric specialist outside of waste not waste? The answer may also is certain. Otherwise, how do you explain in large hospital doctor instantly gathers specialist, lead the public into difficulties in getting the vortex of doctor expensive? In Beijing, according to statistics, there are nearly 70 million each year ZhuanGuHao nonlocal patients, and the hanging performers ZhuanGuHao year-round less than 180 million hospital. So, must not only trying to use public medical view blind to explain the phenomenon. The real question is, specialists are scarce, and mainly in big cities and monopoly hospitals. Not really have that kind of sickness ecbolic demand, why people are willing to trekking, cost of such high cost besides doctor?

     In the past, in order to solve those age short-handed serious medical problems in medical training, we have been through "great leap forward" era. In 1998, medical staff before without has been specially the qualification, a graduation automatically be certified, almost came true zero eliminated. But there are a number of guarantee, does not equal quality will be able to "come out" subsequently ethephon. In the pediatric specialist training, in fact we have been on debt. Although, in recent years, the government has faced this shortage, in medical training and certification, gradually to developed countries tend to learn, more restrictive, more standardized, but I'm afraid I've escalating response.

     "Hong Kong medical shortage" is a mirror, saw someone else in the boards at the same time, should also see our own inadequacy, as early as possible, change the situation to deal with crises.

Clock west (doctor)