Obstetrics

The Obstetrics Department is a national key clinical specialty, a key hospital department and a key discipline in Zhejiang Province. It leads the Zhejiang perinatal healthcare collaboration group, hosts the chair of the Zhejiang Medical Association's perinatal medicine branch, and houses the provincial prenatal diagnosis center, fetal medicine center, obstetric care quality-control center and prenatal diagnosis and screening quality-control center. It manages and consults on severe, critical and complex maternal and fetal cases from Zhejiang and neighboring regions, follows domestic and international clinical guidelines and consensus, promotes standardized care and shares established techniques, knowledge and methods with primary hospitals. The hospital describes the department as a provincial leader in perinatal management, clinical care, education and research, and credits it with contributing to improvements in obstetric care and persistently low maternal mortality in Zhejiang. The department reports 607 designated obstetric beds and 150 obstetricians, including 48 with senior titles, and nearly 30,000 deliveries per year, with severe, critical or complex cases accounting for more than 30%. It states that it has maintained a relatively low cesarean section rate while receiving many high-risk patients and regularly assists other hospitals with consultation and emergency care for difficult and critical cases.