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Zhongshan Hospital is a major teaching hospital
affiliated to the Ministry of Health of China. It was founded
in 1937 in commemoration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the great pioneer
in the Chinese democratic revolution. Affiliated to the State
Medical College of Shanghai, it was then the first large hospital
run by the Chinese.
Through nearly 75years of development,
Zhongshan Hospital now covers an area of 95,892 M2 and has 185,736
M2 of buildings. The hospital has 1,700 beds serving 69,000 inpatients
and 2,627,000 outpatients and emergency in 2010. Among its 2,986
medical staffs are 375 professors and associate professors, 956
physicians, 1,165 nurses and 239 technicians, 2 members of the
Chinese Academy of Engineering.
The hospital has all medical divisions,
except pediatrics, excelling in the diagnosis and treatment of
cardiovascular diseases, liver cancer, renal and pulmonary diseases,
etc. It has been designated as the Shanghai Clinical Center for
Cardiovascular Diseases and Liver Cancer. Having their head offices
set up in the hospital, the Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular
Diseases, the Liver Cancer Institute of Fudan University, the
Shanghai Institute of Radiology, the Shanghai Institute of Rehabilitation
with Integrated western and Chinese Traditional Medicine, the
Institute of Respiratory Diseases of Fudan University, the Institute
of Vascular Surgery of Fudan University, the Institute of General
Surgery of Fudan University, the Institute of Endoscopic research
of Fudan University and the Nuclear Medicine Institute of Fudan
University have become the major research centers of the hospital.
The Organ Transplantation Center, Fudan University, is another
feature of the hospital. Renal, liver and heart transplantations
have already become routine practice. The Shanghai quality control
centers for in-hospital infection, ultrasound, respiratory diseases,
cardiovascular diseases, cardiology and general surgery are also
attached to the hospital. The hospital is also renowned for its
strength in abdominal surgery, orthopedics, interventional radiology,
anaesthesia, ultrasound diagnosing and integrated treatment of
western and traditional medicine. The hospital is undertaking
annually some 100 major research projects supported by the Nation,
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and Municipal Government.
Nearly 100 items have been awarded for distinguished achievements
in research by the central or local government in recent years.
Zhongshan Hospital is well installed with
advanced equipment including PET-CT, digital subtraction angiographer,
linear accelerator, multislice spiral CT, 3.0T magnetic resonance
scanner, single photon emission computed tomographer, digital
radiographer, high energy ultrasound treatment apparatus, shock
wave lithotripsy apparatus, duplex scanner, electro-gastroscope,
intensive care system, teleconsultation system and teleeducation
system. The hospital has achieved preliminary network administration.
Zhongshan Hospital is striving to become
a symbolized hospital in Shanghai. Under the leadership of the
Party, the hospital always places the patients¡¯ need as the top
priority and sets the ¡°Prudent, Practicality, Unity and Offering¡±
as the discipline, dedicated to providing the highest standards
of clinical care for all kinds of patients.
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