The position and role of department of laboratory medicine in the construction of national public health system: experiences from public health emergencies efforts
10.3760/cma.j.cn114452-20200423-00423
- VernacularTitle:从重大突发公共卫生事件看医院检验科在国家公共卫生体系建设中的定位与作用
- Author:
Wenjuan WU
1
;
Min LI
;
Yiwei TANG
;
Dong LI
;
Ming GUAN
Author Information
1. 同济大学附属东方医院南院检验科，上海 200123
- From:
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine
2020;43(8):776-779
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
At present, the situation of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control in China is gradually improving, but the situation of overseas import prevention and control remains difficult. The COVID-19 epidemic may exist for long due to the undetermined source of infection, the difficulty in completely cutting off the transmission route, and a large number of susceptible people. Therefore, prevention and control will be a long-term and arduous task, making it necessary to adhere to the principle of combining emergency response with regular prevention and control, coordinating the epidemic prevention and social-economic development in a balanced way. In retrospect, the epidemic has exposed the ambiguous positioning and unsatisfying hardware construction of hospital laboratory departments, and delayed intervention of laboratory experts in the public health treatment system of China. This paper reflects on the hospital laboratory departments′ problems during the anti-epidemic activities, and put forward suggestions to improve the future development of clinical laboratories in the national public health system.
