Infectious Diseases

The Department of Infectious Diseases was established in 1997 and, through its development to date, has become a clinical department of considerable size and a high level of professional expertise. It has an infectious diseases outpatient clinic, as well as an infectious diseases ward and an emergency observation area. It currently has 19 physicians, including 2 chief physicians who are professors, 5 associate chief physicians, and 7 attending physicians; 7 hold doctoral degrees, and personnel holding doctoral or master's degrees account for 80%.

The Infectious Diseases outpatient clinic comprises a hepatology clinic, an intestinal diseases clinic, and a fever clinic. The hepatology clinic mainly diagnoses and treats liver diseases such as viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, fatty liver, alcoholic liver disease, abnormal liver function, and autoimmune liver disease. The intestinal diseases clinic receives patients with diarrhea. The fever clinic mainly diagnoses and treats respiratory infectious diseases, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, brucellosis, scrub typhus, other infectious diseases, and conditions such as fever of unknown origin. The department currently handles approximately 30000 outpatient visits annually and serves as a window showcasing the hospital's high-quality services.

The Department of Infectious Diseases currently has 20 inpatient beds. The ward is organized according to an integrated nursing-care model and is managed using advanced practices. It mainly focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic liver diseases, including viral hepatitis, abnormal liver function caused by various etiologies, cirrhosis and its complications such as ascites and hepatic coma.

The Department of Infectious Diseases also undertakes teaching responsibilities at multiple levels, including for graduate students, medical undergraduates, undergraduate nursing students, and adult education programs. Each year, it trains a large number of medical and nursing personnel for primary-level hospitals. In recent years, the development of the discipline has emphasized giving equal importance to medical care, teaching, and scientific research; building a comprehensively developed healthcare workforce; completing medical work comprehensively and beyond target; successfully completing teaching tasks; and achieving major progress in scientific research. The Department of Infectious Diseases is a nationally authorized master's degree-granting site and has 2 supervisors of master's students. More than 10 master's students have already graduated. In recent years, the department has undertaken 5 research projects at the ministerial, provincial-department, and municipal levels, published 5 medical monographs as chief editor or contributing editor, and published more than 30 papers.