I. Introduction
With the development of social economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, people’s demand for medical services is increasing. However, due to various reasons, such as uneven regional development and uneven distribution of medical resources, it is difficult for people in some areas to enjoy quality medical services nearby. As an important social welfare undertaking, medical assistance aims to solve this problem, improve the level of primary medical services, and enable people to enjoy quality medical services locally.
Second, the background and significance of medical assistance
Medical assistance is an important measure in the development of medical and health undertakings in China. By introducing medical resources from developed areas to underdeveloped areas, it spreads advanced medical technology and management experience to the grassroots, thus improving the quality and efficiency of primary medical services and enabling people to enjoy high-quality medical services at home.
Specifically, the significance of medical assistance is mainly reflected in the following aspects:
- Promote the balanced distribution of medical resources: by introducing medical resources from developed areas to underdeveloped areas, help local medical institutions improve the level of diagnosis and treatment and service quality, thus alleviating the problem of uneven distribution of medical resources.
- Improve the level of primary medical services: Medical assistance not only provides technical support and training, but also helps primary medical institutions to introduce advanced medical equipment and management experience, thus improving the quality and efficiency of primary medical services.
- Reduce medical costs: By popularizing and applying appropriate medical technology, help primary medical institutions reduce medical costs and reduce the medical burden of the masses.
- Promote the development of medical and health undertakings: medical assistance will help improve the overall level of medical and health undertakings in China and promote the balanced development of medical and health undertakings.
Third, the practical effect of medical assistance
Since the development of medical assistance, remarkable results have been achieved. Specific performance in the following aspects:
- Improve the quality of primary medical services: By introducing advanced medical technology and management experience, the service quality of primary medical institutions has been significantly improved, and the people’s satisfaction with medical services has also been greatly improved.
- Relieved the problem of people’s difficulty in seeing a doctor: With the support of medical assistance, primary medical institutions can provide more and better medical services, effectively alleviating the problem of people’s difficulty in seeing a doctor.
- It has promoted the development of medical and health undertakings: medical assistance has not only improved the level of primary medical services, but also vigorously promoted the balanced development of medical and health undertakings in China.
- Enhance the self-development ability of primary medical institutions: Through medical assistance, primary medical institutions have learned advanced management methods and technical means, and their self-development ability has been enhanced. This will help them better serve the local people and promote the development of local medical and health undertakings.
IV. Existing Problems and Challenges
Although medical assistance has achieved remarkable results, there are still some problems and challenges in practice:
- Shortage of funds and resources: Due to the limitation of funds and resources, medical institutions in some underdeveloped areas cannot fully enjoy the benefits brought by medical assistance. This requires the government and all sectors of society to further increase investment and provide more support and guarantee for medical assistance.
- Insufficient technical training and promotion: In the process of medical assistance, although some technical training and promotion activities have been carried out, the demand for such activities in some primary medical institutions has not been met. In the future, it is necessary to further strengthen technical training and promotion to improve the technical level and service ability of primary medical institutions.
- Limited improvement of management level: Although advanced management experience has been introduced to primary medical institutions, there is still a certain gap in the improvement of management level in some institutions. This requires further strengthening management and training guidance to promote the continuous improvement of the management level of primary medical institutions.
- Unbalanced regional development: the problem of unbalanced regional development still exists in China, which leads to different effects of medical assistance in different regions. Further measures should be taken to strengthen cross-regional cooperation and exchanges and promote the balanced distribution of medical resources.
Five, in order to further promote the work of medical assistance, put forward the following suggestions:
- Increase assistance: The government should increase investment in primary medical institutions, provide more funds and resources to help primary medical institutions improve the level of diagnosis and treatment and service quality.
- Strengthening management and service capacity building: Primary medical institutions should strengthen management and service capacity building, improve service quality and management level, and ensure the stability of assistance effect. At the same time, we should pay attention to training local medical staff and improve their professional quality and service ability.
- Optimize the allocation of medical resources: the government should further optimize the allocation of medical resources, introduce more high-quality medical resources to the grassroots to meet the basic medical needs of the masses. At the same time, we should pay attention to improving the operational efficiency and service quality of primary medical institutions.
- Strengthen supervision and evaluation: the government should strengthen supervision and evaluation of medical assistance to ensure the quality and effect of assistance projects. At the same time, we should pay attention to collecting the feedback and suggestions from the masses, adjust the assistance strategies in time and constantly improve the medical assistance system.
Through the implementation of medical assistance, the ability of primary medical services has been significantly improved, and the people can enjoy high-quality medical services at their doorstep. At the same time, it also effectively relieves the pressure of large hospitals and improves the relationship between supply and demand of medical services.
Although medical assistance has achieved certain results, there is still much room for improvement. It is necessary to further increase investment, improve policies, deepen medical reform, and promote the development of medical assistance to a higher level so that every citizen can enjoy fair, just, convenient and efficient medical services.
Medical assistance is an important livelihood project, which is of great significance for improving people’s lives and enhancing people’s well-being. We should make greater determination and efforts to promote the in-depth development of medical assistance, so that more people can enjoy high-quality medical services and share the fruits of social development.