Medical experts called for more health care and education resources for women, children and the elderly during the China International Import Expo.

There are 220 million children under the age of 14 in China, covering 16.4% of the total population.

But medical resources and supplies for children are far from sufficient. Of the nearly 3,500 clinical drug doses, the children’s dose is less than 1.7 percent.

About 43 percent of children have difficulty taking medicine mainly because the medicine is turned into pills or has a bad taste for children, said experts from the pediatric exchange platform established by health.people.cn and Roche at CIIE.

“In addition to developing more doses of medicines for children, it is essential to push for a tiered system for patients, who first go to the community for common and chronic diseases and can be transferred to higher hospitals if the condition is complicated,” said Dr. . Wang Yi, president of Fudan University Children’s Hospital.

To push the classification system, the platform consists of standardization of medical care, high quality development, pediatric education, international exchange, health education and charity programs.

Local doctors have welcomed the promotion of a classified system, as top hospitals are always crowded with patients with common illnesses.

Dr. Zhu Xiaodong of Xinhua Hospital said his hospital is full of children with respiratory infections during the peak season.

“Community and regional medical centers can cooperate with top children’s hospitals to treat patients with less severe symptoms locally,” he said.

“Education is also extremely important to help the public have a scientific understanding of respiratory disease prevention and control.”

Public education is actually a word most frequently repeated by doctors in different departments.

At CIIE, Bayer announced that it has reached a cooperation with Accenture China to jointly develop a digital health care system for women, to improve health awareness, improve medical services and provide support for the development of policies and innovative research.

It also signed an agreement with Tencent Healthcare to explore the integration of the health care industry with the Internet to better apply technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence in the smart service for women.

Bayer has also teamed up with the media to launch an educational campaign on the management of the entire prostate cancer process to call for increased social awareness and care for older men’s health and prostate cancer prevention and control.

According to Dr. Guo Jianming of Zhongshan Hospital, many Chinese patients are not detected until the middle or terminal stages.

“In the metastatic stage, the risk of cancer progression will increase from 5 percent to 74 percent and the risk of death from 5 percent to 56 percent. Therefore, it is important to promote education regarding early screening and effective and regular management of the entire prostatic process. , which allows patients to live longer and better,” he said.

Vaccination is another important part of disease prevention and control emphasized by experts.

Vaccination is the most effective measure for the prevention and control of infectious diseases, as well as for the protection of the elderly, the immunocompromised and the sick. The government has been exploring ways to promote vaccination and increase public awareness of vaccination.

Currently, 13 provinces and municipalities, including Shanghai, have adopted a new model, allowing GPs in neighborhood health centers to make vaccine prescriptions to boost vaccination, industry members told a health forum launched by GSK on CIIE.

“Before, we would have to wait for people to come for vaccination,” said Sheng Fei, director of Nanxiang City District Health Center.

“The new measure allows GPs to prescribe vaccines for eligible people after education and assessment. It is a very effective measure to encourage vaccination, especially for the elderly.

“Influenza, pneumonia and shingles are the three most recommended vaccines for older people, while we encourage eligible women to undergo HPV vaccination to prevent and control cervical cancer.”

Dr. Zheng Yongjun from the pain department of Huadong Hospital reiterated the importance of shingles vaccination, as there are 1.56 million new cases of shingles for people aged 50 and over in China every year.

“For older people with chronic diseases and problems like cancer, the pain and complications from shingles will be much more severe,” he said. “Vaccination is very important for them.”