The word "hospital" comes from Latin, which means "guest", because when it was first established, it was for people to take refuge and have a lounge, which made people comfortable and entertaining. Later, it gradually became a professional institution to meet human medical needs and provide medical services, and it was a service place to accommodate and treat patients.
The service system of public hospitals has basically taken shape.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, China's medical institutions, medical facilities and equipment, and medical technicians were in a state of extreme shortage. At that time, statistics showed that there were only 2,600 hospitals in China, but they faced a population of more than 500 million. Under the severe situation, our government turned some PLA field hospitals into local hospitals, and received a number of medical institutions and foreign churches and charities left over from the old government.
With the implementation of the First Five-Year Plan, the China Municipal Government has successively invested in the establishment of a large number of public hospitals, and gradually established a public hospital service system. In addition to hospitals affiliated to government health departments, there are also hospitals affiliated to industries and other departments, showing a multi-sectoral medical pattern. Since 1956, under the background of socialist transformation, some private medical institutions have also turned into public hospitals.
With the development of China, the number of public hospitals in China is increasing. Relevant statistics show that the number of hospitals in China has increased from 2,600 in 1.949 to 9,902 in 1.980, and the number of beds in medical and health institutions per 1,000 population has continuously increased to 2. 1.980.
"The improvement of the appearance of hospitals nationwide is not only reflected in the rapid growth of the number of institutions and beds, but also in the organization and management of hospitals, medical technology and medical research." Mao Zongfu, director of the Global Health Research Center of Wuhan University, said. Mao Zongfu said that before the reform and opening up, the service network of public hospitals in China was basically formed. At that time, China implemented a pure welfare and planned economy management model for hospitals, that is, "contracting hospitals and staying in the country". The wave of reform and opening up has pushed people to look outward. With the "going out, please come in" in the medical field, people find that although the public hospital system in China is relatively perfect, there is a big gap between China and developed countries in medical technology, medical quality and medical service level.