Objective To survey the present situation of medical equipment configuration of township hospitals in Shuangliu County, to provide baseline data for the next step of discussing the well-off township hospital medical equipment configuration standards.
Methods According to the national guidance on device configuration in township hospitals, the questionnaire was made to survey 24 county township medical units (i.e. 3 central township hospitals, 3 community health centers, and 18 general township hospitals). The descriptive and stratified analysis was performed for the survey results.
Results The condition of medical equipment configuration in the 3 central hospitals was better than that in the 3 community health centers which was better than that in the 18 general hospitals. The emergency equipment configuration such as defibrillator units, breathing airbags, and tracheotomy package was poor. Annual inspection rate of medical metering equipment was lower than expectation. In 2010, a total of 127 medical measuring equipments from 98.5% of the township hospitals applied annual inspection, among which, only the total annual rate of black and white B ultrasonic and X-ray machine reached above 60%; the rate of blood cells analyzer, ECG monitoring instrument, and biochemical analyzer were between 50% to 60%; and the rate of urine analyzer was the lowest at 4.5%.
Conclusion It is the right time to strengthen the first aid equipment configuration in township hospitals and to enhance the annual inspection rate of the medical measuring equipment, so that the safety use and accuracy detecting can be guaranteed.
Citation： MENG Qinggui,ZHENG Yong,LI Youping,LIAO Jing,LI Honghao,YANG Yinxi,LAI Wei,FAN Huaichang. A Status Survey on the Allocation of Medical Equipment of Township Medical Unit in Shuangliu County of Sichuan Province. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2010, 10(12): 1396-1401. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20100602 Copy