Lack of grass-roots GPs, lack of top public health talent Who will do the virus chase people

Medicine network May 22nd , "Protecting others, but also the urgent need for people to protect." How to "protect" the public health personnel after the stage victory in the fight against the outbreak of new corona pneumonia is an important topic of concern to many delegates at the two national conferencesThey are concerned about how to build a team of primary public health services, mainly clinicians, disease control personnel and general practitionersNational Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Professor of Capital Medical University, Beijing Fengtai District Fangzhuang Community Health Service Center Director Wu Hao once served as an expert of the central guidance group, spent 51 days in Wuhan, guiding community prevention and controlWu Hao remembers when he first arrived in Wuhan, there were people in disorderly flow, "epidemic-related life garbage has not been dealt with." Later, he led members through more than 500 neighborhoods and 161 community health service centers, combed through 1,275 questions and recommendations, and sent them to the Central Steering GroupWu Hao,of the, said only grass-roots GPs who knew both clinical and community health could cope with the situationBut the current situation of the medical workforce, as shown by the outbreak, is a lack of primary-level General Practitioners, and even less of the top public health professionalsthe 2019 China HealthStatistical Yearbook shows that by the end of 2018, the total number of qualified general practitioners trained in different training models in China was 309,000, less than 9% of the total number of clinicians, with 2.2 general practitioners per 10,000 people"The number of GPs in developed countries is generally close to 30 per cent of the total number of clinicians, or even 50 per cent or moreWang Songling, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and vice-president of Capital Medical University, said that of the 309,000 general practitioners, nearly half of the 309,000 gitary scored through transfer training, and that the general practitioners on duty had low academic qualifications and inadequate capacity for diagnosis and control ofon the afternoon of May 21st, at the first "member channel" of the 13th session of the CPPCC National Committee, Wang Chen, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that strengthening the construction of public health system should be strengthened, and it was important to pay attention to the combination of medical and preventive services"Only when medical defenses are integrated can major challenges be addressed more forcefully."is more difficult to cultivate than basic medicine and clinical medicine
Previously, the Ministry of Education said it would expand the number of graduate students enrolled this year by 189,000, including public health and preventive medicine, with some schools expanding their enrollment by a ratio of 1:1 but the National People's Congress representative, Suzhou University President Xiong Sidong said his research found that: many schools on this news "mixed feelings" - "happy is that the country began to attach importance to the construction of public health personnel, worry is that some schools do not have so many professional teachers." is now Beijing's chief expert on community health, Wu Hao with "the icing on the cake" "unknown" to describe the public health profession Wu Hao remembers that 60% of the more than 3,000 people infected in Wuhan were community public health service personnel, "but not much attention." the key to the training of public health personnel, he believes that it is "to give enough respect", "so that different occupations have their own development space and professional status, otherwise re-training will also be lost." in Xiong Sidong's view, the training of public health personnel needs multi-disciplinary multi-level cross,, comprehensive universities should use the advantages of multidisciplinary, training composite public health personnel, "not only epidemiological and health statistics, but also emergency management, in the school system can not simply add together, but to practice ability and post competence as a mainstream direction of talent training." in Wu Hao's view, the future needs to establish a different talent evaluation system, so that the talent structure more reasonable, "we need to do research people, but also need to specialize in clinical people." " evaluation system is a baton, each kind of talent is very important, but we need to understand each other, such as disease control personnel to the community to receive exercise, clinical also to the disease control department to learn statistics and flow and other basic knowledge, there is an early warning awareness Wu Hao said Zhongqing News, Zhongqing Network trainee reporter Zhu Caiyun reporter Wang Xinxuan Source: China Youth Daily