Gastroenterology

The Department of Gastroenterology of Hangzhou First People's Hospital is a National Clinical Key Specialty, the Zhejiang Sub-center of the National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, a Key Discipline of Zhejiang Province, a Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Key Specialty, a Key Discipline of the Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a Zhejiang Provincial Regional Center for Specialized Diseases, and a Hangzhou Peak Discipline; it has been approved by the Health Commission and officially designated as Hangzhou Digestive Disease Hospital, and also serves as the supporting institution for multiple national training and quality-control platforms, including the World Endoscopy Organization Global ERCP Training Center and the Chinese Medical Association Endoscopist Training Base. The department handles more than 100,000 outpatient visits and more than 10,000 inpatient admissions annually; patients from outside the local area account for over 50%, the overall cure-and-improvement rate is 99.36%, the successful rescue rate for critically ill patients is 98.96%, and annual medical revenue has exceeded RMB 200 million in recent years. It has 52 physicians and more than 100 nursing staff, including 11 chief physicians and 12 deputy chief physicians; holders of master's or doctoral degrees account for more than 90%. More than 20 doctors hold academic appointments in national academic organizations such as the Chinese Medical Association and the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. The department comprises the gastroenterology ward, the Digestive Endoscopy Center, the Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Biliary and Pancreatic Diseases, the Hangzhou Institute of Digestive Diseases, the Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Laboratory, the Gastrointestinal Motility Laboratory, and other units. It has nine subspecialties—biliary and pancreatic diseases, early gastrointestinal cancer, intestinal diseases and inflammatory bowel disease, Helicobacter pylori, digestive-system microbiota and fecal microbiota transplantation, internal hemorrhoids, fatty liver, hiatal hernia, and gastrointestinal motility—and corresponding specialty outpatient clinics. The department specializes in “endoscopic minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of digestive system diseases”; it performs more than 100,000 gastroscopy and colonoscopy examinations annually; approximately 3,000 ERCP procedures, 2,500 EUS diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and more than 800 ESD procedures annually, among which the volumes of ERCP and EUS are at a nationally leading level. A number of highly challenging biliary-pancreatic and gastrointestinal endoscopic techniques are at the forefront nationally, providing high-quality diagnostic and treatment services for patients with complex and severe diseases from China and abroad.