Family Planning Department

The Department of Family Planning at the International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital of China Welfare Institute has long held a high clinical and research standing in Shanghai and throughout China. It has an outpatient clinic, operating rooms, and wards, and undertakes all family-planning examinations and treatments; it is a department in which clinical care, research, and teaching are closely integrated. It specializes in various family-planning techniques, such as surgical abortion, medical abortion, insertion and removal of intrauterine contraceptive devices, menstrual induction to terminate pregnancy, sterilization, various labor-induction procedures, tubal anastomosis, and difficult removal of intrauterine contraceptive devices, examinations, and treatments under hysteroscopy and laparoscopy, among others. It was one of the earliest hospitals in China to introduce subdermal implant contraception and medical abortion. It also provides diagnosis and treatment for difficult family-planning-related cases referred from all over the country. Based on new medical concepts and technologies, it has carried out comprehensive diagnostic and treatment programs for high-risk cases involving pregnancy termination for family planning and the corresponding complications.

Our hospital’s specialized disease outpatient clinic for family planning is staffed by senior physicians with extensive experience from the family planning ward. Its scope of diagnosis and treatment includes hysteroscopic and laparoscopic treatment for infertility, such as fallopian tube recanalization and reconstructive surgery, hysteroscopic treatment of endometrial thickening, polyp removal, submucosal fibroid resection, assessment of the endometrium before IVF, hysteroscopic treatment of intrauterine adhesions, hysteroscopic removal of retained tissue after abortion, diagnosis and treatment of cesarean scar pregnancy, termination of various high-risk pregnancies, removal of difficult intrauterine contraceptive devices, contraceptive-method counseling, etc.