Family Planning Department

The Department of Family Planning of Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital is located on the East and West campuses, and both campuses have independent outpatient clinics, outpatient operating rooms, and wards. The Department of Family Planning on the East Campus has 24 beds in operation. The Department of Family Planning on the West Campus has 5 beds in operation. In addition to general family planning outpatient clinics, expert outpatient clinics, and special-needs outpatient clinics, it also has specialized clinics for postpartum contraception counseling, post-abortion care, difficult IUD removal, intrauterine adhesions, post-abortion infertility, and pregnancy in a special location (including pregnancy at a uterine scar site).

The department comprehensively performs all types of family-planning abortion and contraceptive procedures, including: induced abortion (abortion under visual guidance of the uterine cavity, hysteroscopic electric-suction abortion), medical abortion, induction of labor in early/mid-pregnancy, insertion/removal of intrauterine devices, subcutaneous contraceptive implantation, sterilization and tubal recanalization, hysteroscopic removal of retained or incarcerated intrauterine devices, etc.; it also provides diagnosis and treatment for short- and long-term complications after abortion and conditions related to fertility regulation, including: hysteroscopic and laparoscopic treatment of post-abortion infertility, hysteroscopic lysis of intrauterine adhesions, treatment of intrauterine space-occupying lesions, removal of post-abortion intrauterine retained products, and hysteroscopic diagnosis and treatment of post-abortion uterine arteriovenous fistula.

The Department of Family Planning is a specialized department integrating medical care, education, and research, with more than 10 full-time family-planning medical personnel, 6 senior-titled personnel, 6 intermediate-titled personnel, and several junior-titled personnel. It has 3 personnel with doctoral degrees, 2 people currently pursuing doctorates, 1 doctoral postgraduate supervisor, and 1 master's postgraduate supervisor. The department has undertaken more than 10 research projects, 4 of which are currently in progress, and has published more than 40 papers, including more than 10 SCI papers. It organizes national-level continuing education training courses every year. In 2020, the department was recognized as a “PAC (Post-Abortion Care) Training Base,” helping the hospital become one of the first Grade III Class A (tertiary Grade A) hospitals in Shanghai to be recognized as a PAC Training Base; in 2023, the department was again recognized as a Micro-Training Base of the National PAC Project; in 2024, it was fully upgraded to an FPAC (Female Reproductive Health Promotion Project) Base, and it regularly organizes various online and offline training courses every year, providing doctors at all levels in the region and across the country with cutting-edge knowledge and technical training related to family planning.

The department has always adhered to a service philosophy centered on patients and with protecting women’s fertility as the goal of treatment, providing comprehensive and satisfactory medical services, as well as scientific education on contraception and family planning, for women who need to terminate a pregnancy and women who wish to have children.