West China College of Medicine

The hospital covers an area of 46.7 hectars, owns 400,000 square meters of building  for clinical use  while its fixed assets arrives at 3.0 billion RMB. The hospital has 4300 beds, which ranks the first in China and the percentage of clinical usage reaches over 100%. In 2008 the Outpatient Department treated 2.55  million patients ,while the number of the discharged  patients is 0.123 million, 63,000 of whom are operation cases. The present staff number is 6100, more than 550 of whom are professors and associate professors including one academician in Chinese Science Academy, Five special professors involved in “Yangzi River Awards Plan”, the 11 persons honored by “National fund of Nature Science for Outstanding Young Scientists”, 125 supervisors  for PhD.students, 264  supervisors   of Master’s Degree Prograsm. There exists Postdoctorate Program of National Clinical Medicine and Basic Medicine, the doctorate program of first class in clinical medicine, 31 programs leading to Doctorate Degree. The programs leading to Master’s Degree cover all the disciplines in hospital. There is 1 State Laboratory, 2 key laboratory of Ministry of Education (MOE), 9 key disciplines of MOE, 2 disciplines with the national “211” Project, five key programs of Ministry of  Health , 16 key disciplines and 25 key laboratories in provincial level respectively. In past five years, the hospital obtained 5000 million RMB fund for various scientific and research programs. Nine public natural journals of academy are edited and published by the hospital. There are 36 clinical departments, 15 medical technology departments, 25 open laboratories of scientific and research centers  and Sichuan International Hospital which faces the whole world.

With the construction during 113 years, especially the high-speed development in the past decade, West China Hospital has become a superior large comprehensive teaching and researching hospital with all medical disciplines, a strong teaching faculty, considerable research facilities and the update medical equipments.  The hospital has been ranked among the top hospitals in China since 1990 and is the medical center of sophisticated and severe cases, the center of medical education and the scientific research in Southwest China arranged by MOH and MOE.Excellent Medical Service  and  High Quality of Medical technology

Medical Service

There are 4300 beds, 36 clinical departments, 15 medical technology departments in West China Hospital of  Sichuan University. The present staff number 6100, among whom, there are over 550 professors and associate professors. With the purpose of doing good care and excellent service for the patients, the hospital sets up the Senior Experts Consulting Center, 200 special clinics and walk-in clinic without rest  at weekend and noon. In order to meet the several needs of  public, the hospital also sets up Community Health Center,  Medical Center for Tibet public and Golden Card Hospital.

Medical Equipment

There are 4 MRI, 4 Spiral CT, ECT, Electric Gastroentestinal endoscopy, Several kinds of Endoscopies, Radio Frequence Aberration, Linear Accelerator, Automated biochemical analyzer, Colour Doppler, advanced monitoring system for ICU, PRK, X knife stereotactic radio therapy, Cellular knife therapy series in the hospital. The total value of medical equipment costs almost 5000 million RMB.

Medical Service Level

With sophisticated medical technology, the comprehensive medical service of the hospital is at a national leader level. Such as combined traditional Chinese and western medicine for treatment of serve acute pancreatitis,  Surgical treatment  for lung cancer, Hemopoietic stem cell transplantation for treatment of leukemia, allogeneic in situ hepatic transplantation for treatment of severe liver diseases, renal transplantation for treatment of severe renal diseases, laparoscopic total mesorectal excision of low rectal cancer with preservation of anal sphincter, treatment of ocular fundus diseases, Surgical treatment for the complex heart diseases (over 1000cases/per year), advanced interventional treatment for the complex heart diseases (2500 cases/per year), Surgical treatment for the complex intracranial diseases(2300cases/per year), replantation for limbs( finger, toe), artificial joint-replacement, clinical application of tissue engineering, pectus excavatum, child’s urologic diseases, cellular knife therapy for Parkinson’s disease, biotherapy(immunotherapy, genic therapy)for the cancer,  Cochlear implant,  Nuclear medical treatment for hyperthyroidism with 131-I, bone cacer with 153-Sm., treatment of diabetes, viral hepatitis,  schizophrenia and depression, the diagnosis of clinical laboratory, imaging of CT, MRI. The diagnosis and treatment of several ten special clinics and nearly one hundred diseases have reached high leading levels domestically and, some of which  have reached international advanced level.

The secretary of  Communist Party Committee of the hospital is Prof. Zheng Shangwei and the  Director of  the hospital is Prof. Shi Yingkang.