Time: 2018-05-09

Report from our correspondent (reporter zhang sven) recently, the national health committee by the maternal and infant safety action plan (2018-2020) "and" healthy children action plan (2018-2020) ", aims to further ensure maternal and infant and children's health. The plan is clear, to actively promote the appropriate technology and methods of TCM, to carry out the rational use of Chinese medicine and to promote the safe application of traditional Chinese medicine for pregnant women and infants. We will give full play to the role of traditional Chinese medicine in children's health care services.
The maternal and child safety action plan (2018-2020) proposes to provide advice and guidance on pregnancy risk prevention. We will set up a fertility service consulting room to bring together professional forces such as gynecology, obstetrics, reproduction, genetics, psychology and traditional Chinese medicine to carry out multi-disciplinary collaborative diagnosis and treatment, and provide fertility assessment and guidance for pregnancy.
For the specialized capacity building action, the plan is clear, strengthens the clinical specialty construction. We will actively promote the appropriate technology and methods of TCM, carry out rational use of Chinese medicines, and promote the safe application of traditional Chinese medicine for pregnant women and infants. We will strengthen clinical cooperation in critical and intensive Chinese and western medicine and improve the medical treatment capacity. Promote the development of health care. We will promote the use of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention of diseases, and expand the role of traditional Chinese medicine in breeding and postpartum health care.
In addition, the plan also proposes to carry out emergency and severe cases treatment, improve the quality and safety, for the convenience of the high quality service, such as action, aim to the maternal mortality rate dropped to 2020 per 18/10, the national infant mortality rate dropped to 7.5 per thousand.
The healthy children action plan (2018-2020) has made demands on the improvement of children's medical and health services to require the role of traditional Chinese medicine in children's health care services. We will strengthen the construction of TCM pediatrics in medical institutions, actively promote the application of appropriate techniques in pediatric medicine, and promote the implementation of public health service projects in the field of children's health. We will carry out rational use of training in pediatric medicine and improve the ability of medical institutions to prevent and control children's diseases. To strengthen the clinical cooperation of western medicine in the major diseases of children, and to improve the level of the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric patients. We will give full play to the advantages of medical treatment, carry out popularization of traditional Chinese medicine and healthy education activities, and promote Chinese medicine culture into families and communities.
The plan is clear. By 2020, the health service system for children in urban and rural areas will be further improved, and the capacity of children's health care services will be improved, and the health of children will be improved. The infant mortality rate and the mortality rate of children under 5 years old were controlled at 7.5‰ and 9.5‰ respectively; The infant's exclusive breastfeeding rate of 0 ~ 6 months is more than 50%. The program also includes action on child health promotion initiatives, newborn safety initiatives, and child health science and technology innovation initiatives.