Paediatrics

The Department of Pediatrics of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 1978. It is one of the earliest national clinical drug trial bases for new traditional Chinese medicines in our hospital, as well as a teaching and research section for traditional Chinese medicine pediatrics, a standardized residency training base for traditional Chinese medicine pediatrics, a branch of the Xu Rongqian National Famous and Experienced Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners’ Inheritance Studio and the Inheritance Studio of the Affiliated Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, and a standing council member of the Xinjiang Pediatric Difficult and Critical Illness Specialty Alliance. The department undertakes classroom teaching for undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and continuing medical education, as well as clinical instruction for interns, postgraduate students, and standardized residency trainees. The pediatric outpatient department has 1 expert consultation room, 2 general consultation rooms, 1 infusion room and 1 resuscitation room, 1 integrated pediatric pharmacy and 1 pediatric clinical laboratory, and 2 pediatric tuina rooms. The annual pediatric outpatient volume exceeds 70,000 visits. The pediatric ward has 27 beds, with more than 1,800 inpatients admitted annually. The Department of Pediatrics has always adhered to a development direction based on medical care, centered on teaching, and guided by research. Over the years, it has been committed to inheriting and exploring the academic theories of its predecessors, integrating the strengths of various schools of traditional Chinese medicine, remaining rooted in northwest China, and combining these with the disease characteristics of children in Xinjiang to establish the current theory of traditional Chinese medicine pediatrics with distinctive Xinjiang regional characteristics. The department strives to develop the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric conditions for which traditional Chinese medicine has particular advantages, achieve complementary strengths between traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and vigorously carry out characteristic traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. With prevention of disease as its guiding principle, it provides diagnosis and treatment for common, frequently occurring, acute and chronic pediatric diseases, as well as difficult and miscellaneous pediatric disorders and acute, critical, and severe conditions, including recurrent respiratory tract infections, acute fever, convulsions, pneumonia with wheezing and cough, pediatric asthma, anorexia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, allergic purpura, kidney diseases, tic disorders, autism, anorexia, and gan syndrome. It also provides diversified characteristic treatments, including seasonal herbal paste formulas for regulating children’s subhealth constitution, preventive treatment of disease, rehabilitation, tuina, acupoint massage, Fujiu plasters, acupoint application, breathing-guidance exercises, and dietary therapy, achieving definite therapeutic effects and broad social recognition. The department currently has 26 medical and nursing staff members, including 9 physicians and 17 nurses; 2 are postgraduate supervisors, and 4 hold postgraduate degrees, accounting for 45%.